"Panting Enablers"

Dowd often annoys many people (including me) because she tends to waste the precious journalistic real estate that is the NY Times Op-Ed page with indiscriminately dispensed snark (witness the fact that she spent two... two!... columns exclusively on Teresa Heinz-Kerry).

However, sometimes she really hits the nail on the head and heaps plentiful scorn on folks who royally deserve it... a sample:

First, faith trumped facts. Now, loyalty trumps competence. W., who was the loyalty
enforcer for his father's administration, is now the loyalty enforcer for his own.

Those promoted to be in charge of our security, diplomacy and civil liberties were rewarded for being more loyal to Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney than to the truth.

Read the whole thing.