I'm not sure what Bruce's gratuitous insertion of the Filner piece has to do with the subject of the thread- or anything else, for that matter. As for people acting like jerks, he might want review the consistently thuggish behavior of folks like Karl Rove, John Bolton, "Go fu$k yourself" "Buckshot" Cheney, John Negroponte, or the "professional" BuShites like Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham & on & on & on....

But be that as it may:

Per Bruce,

BOTH sides are guilty, not just the side you dislike
in the 'subordinating facts and evidence to faith-based ideological posturing' sweepstakes.

But there's a difference of degree, if not a difference in kind.

For the present administration's tenure of office, the score stands atabout: what Bruce calls "Liberals" 5, BuShites about 2,500+.

The devil is in the details. For example, I don't recall the Dems "swift-boating" anyone or carryiong on a campaign ofsubverting and supressing scientific fact.