A new fad appears to be aborning among liberal commentators: likening Republicans to various beasts. Ron Brownstein's current "Political Connections" column in the National Journal, a conventional-enough analysis of the race among GOP contenders for the presidency, concludes with this gem:There's plenty of stinging ahead before one scorpion crawls from this bottle.The GOP candidates are scorpions?Could this possibly be the same Ronald Brownstein who one month ago published a book entitled The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America? Is this bestiary metaphor what Brownstein has in mind as non-partisanship? Just wondering: to what animal has he likened Hillary or Obama?Just a couple of days ago, Erin Burnett, reading the "news" on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, twice called President Bush a monkey: once as "the monkey" and then as "the monkey in the middle". See it for yourself here....(Read Full Post)