ROVE: "POST-7/4"

Larry Stevens has a suggestion:

Rove has framed the current political debate in terms of "pre-9/11 mentality" and "post-9/11 mentality"....

To respond to Rove's "pre-9/11" and "post-9/11" language, we should speak of "pre-7/4" and "post-7/4" mentalities....

Interesting idea. Here's what he means:

"7/4" refers to July 4, of course. Specifically, July 4, 1776. Bush and Rove have a pre-7/4 mentality, which means they believe in the divine right of kings....

The administration's critics, including their foes among the ranks of the Democratic Party, have a post-7/4 mentality, a paradigm that includes such notions as the consent of the governed, inalienable rights and all the other revolutionary ideas advanced by America's founding fathers and enshrined in our founding documents....

Read Larry's full post here.