Brendan Calling

David Broder is a Senile Old Man

I don’t know whether I should be angry, or just laugh scornfully at David Broder’s latest offering: the “Dean” of Washington Discourse, who recently said that Bush was poised for a comeback (no seriously, and stop laughing like that, it’s mean and David Broder doesn’t like it), now believes that Harry Reid is “the Democrats’ Gonzalez”:

Here’s a Washington political riddle where you fill in the blanks: As Alberto Gonzales is to the Republicans, Blank Blank is to the Democrats — a continuing embarrassment thanks to his amateurish performance.

If you answered ” Harry Reid,” give yourself an A. And join the long list of senators of both parties who are ready for these two springtime exhibitions of ineptitude to end.

And it just goes on and on, filled with inaccuracies and incredibly wrongheaded hypotheses, which I guess is to be expected from someone who claims that Harry Reid has to apologize every six weeks, when such apologies have never happened, and who somehow believes that Reid’s approval rating of 46% is somehow less than Bush’s 32%. More at Think Progress

David Broder is nearly 80 years old, and while age is certainly no indicator of senility, an inability to grasp current politics and, well there’s no easy way to say this, an inability to comprehend REALITY suggests Mr. Broder really ought to think about retiring, and possible visiting a neurologist of Alzheimer specialist.

I mean come on:

Does this look like a man who has all his wits about him?

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