Two Rights make a Wrong

The Right is wrong. Once upon a time, conservatives would have howled like banshees if they learned that their government had embraced warrantless spying on Americans. Today, however, they condemn those among their number who speak out for true conservative principles. Bob Barr, no commie pinko fag he, is the bete noir of the Bushophiles for his condemnation of Bushco spying.

Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?

As of midday yesterday, a silent auction netted $300 for lunch with activist Grover Norquist, $275 for a meal with the Heritage Foundation president and $1,000 for a hunting trip with the American Conservative Union chairman. But lunch with former congressman Bob Barr (R-Ga.) with an "estimated value" of $500, had a top bid of only $75 -- even with a signed copy of Barr's book, "The Meaning of Is," thrown in.

No surprise there. The former Clinton impeachment manager is the skunk at CPAC's party this year. He says President Bush is breaking the law by eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without warrants. And fellow conservatives, for the most part, don't want to hear it.

"You've heard of bear bating? We're going to have, today, Barr bating," R. Emmet Tyrell, a conservative publisher, announced as he introduced a debate Thursday between Barr and Viet Dinh, one of the authors of the USA Patriot Act.

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