Happy Groundhog Day

Today, thankfully, the op-eds have turned to the most important discussion: writing. (Well, speechwriting, which is a few steps down but good-enough-for-DC.)

• Matthew Scully, Bush speechwriter, on the State-of-the-Union Process. He indirectly makes the case that W. knows what he is saying.
  
• Jeff Sheshol, that the 'rebuttal speech' has a lousy format and ought immediately to be either deeply reformed or abolished.
  

Both of these pieces point out the difference between what we would call, Platonically, the difference between the true editor and the false editor. (Hint: most'editors' in DC are the latter.) We'll have more to say on this subject later this week.