why doesn't the d.c. punditocracy ask the question... ?

Bill Moyers, forever striking the starkest contrast to the "elite" punditocracy in our nation's capital, on Prince Harry and the prospect his presence in Iraq means a greater danger to his unit:

Rather than petition the Queen to keep the young man home, they have gotten shirts printed up with the words across them: "I'm Harry." Marvelous, no? The commoners and the Prince are in this together: one for all and all for one. What a notion -- that war should be the great equalizer, that no one's son or daughter is privileged from duty or danger.

You have to wonder how the last four years might have been different if only our President had asked sacrifice from everyone. Instead, mostly folks from the working class and professional soldiers are doing the dying in Iraq, while the rich spend their tax cuts. War on the cheap, except for those fighting it.

Where are the Bush twins these days anyway?