Interesting parallels between this column by Max Boot and my post yesterday channeling George Will.   Max on how you know a political party is dead -

How can you tell if a political party is brain-dead? Easy. It spends an entire campaign denouncing the incumbent as a smarmy, good-for-nothing liar, rather than outlining its own agenda. The Republicans tried it against Bill Clinton in 1996, the Democrats tried it against George W. Bush in 2004, and now in Britain the Conservatives are trying it, with equal lack of success, against Tony Blair.

The tactic isn't too far from simply throwing a wrench in the works without offering up your own future as an alternative....  

UPDATE.   More Shorts - from the Guardian -

The greatest danger for those of us who dislike George Bush is that our instincts may tip over into a desire to see his foreign policy objectives fail. No reasonable person can oppose the president's commitment to Islamic democracy.