feisty

Columnists in the Washington Post are beginning to show some of the spunk that I used to associate with that paper. For example:

Fox-in-the-Henhouse Government

By Ruth Marcus
Wednesday, April 4, 2007; Page A13

The Bush administration's House of Straw seems to be blowing apart, buffeted by alternating gusts of scandal and incompetence.

The tornado of disastrous headlines -- a Pentagon that can't take proper care of its wounded, a Justice Department that can't be trusted to follow the law or tell the truth to Congress, a top White House aide who lied to a grand jury-- has been so overpowering that the day-to-day outrages of life in the Bush administration tend get overlooked.

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