Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
The former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has died. At times he showed true courage, as a godfather of the welfare-reform movement, and in his scathing criticisms of the League of Nations -- er, the UN. But once he got that cosy permanent job in the senior doofuses' chamber he became the worst of all political creatures: the thinking man's party hack. Prof. Moynihan's career should serve as a guidepost and a warning. It is not enough to be a self-publicizing iconoclast.
How appropriate too that Sen. Rodham announced it. She owes something to the ex-Senator's dissembling.
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