Snark’s Up at The New Republic

It’s one thing when the far-Left and far-Right start in about “The Neocons.� But when TNR does it, it’s positively delicious. Because we don’t like them (the Neocons), but when we say “Neocon,� we mean neoconservatives. Not Jews.

Anyway, in “Sucker Punch,� Jonathan Chait zings some tasty one liners at the Neocons, and their relationship with Bush, and how “fewer people seemed to have noticed that the reverse is also true: Bush suckered the neocons.�

Like,

“So [Bush] ended up pursuing Dick Cheney’s foreign policy with Bill Clinton’s army.â€?

And in terms of what tax cuts meant.

“It turned out there wasn’t any money left over for a big troop increase, an eventuality nobody could have foreseen unless they knew how to add and subtract.”

Taking a shot at the Weekly Standard’s explanation on why they were fooled by Bush, Chait “translates,�

“We thought Bush was just lying to the American public, but now we discover he was lying to us also!�

Anyway, I don’t usually get involved with anything Bush, but I love it when the Social-Democrats (yes, they kind of are that) go after the Neocons. And I do accept Chait’s assertion that the Neocons were fooled by Bush.

It’s not that hard to scam a Neocon. You don’t have to be a Chalabi. These guys are an absolute joke in terms of their naiveté. Unfortunately, the joke’s on the U.S. And American Jews generally are all too frequently considered the preferred butt of the joke.

And that’s not very funny at all.