Mad-Cow-Gate

Joe Conason, one of our favorite political commentators, writes on the mad-cow disease crisis and suggests that maybe "mad-politician disease" would be a more apt name for the malady. He continues:

"...While considering a more appropriate nickname for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, let's think of this ailment as a political metaphor for the ruling ideology that mindlessly opposes government regulation. Like a rogue molecule tearing away at vital tissue, right-wing extremism has ravaged the regulatory systems that should protect the food supply from both misshapen proteins and crooked feedlots. Ideology has bored deep holes into the political cerebrum, making our government too stupid to act in our defense...."