RIGHTWINGSPARKLE

Jonah Goldberg of NRO confesses today that his wife works for a minion of satan.

Thats right..... she works for Attorney General John Ashcroft. Meaning she was practically the Wormwood to Ashcroft's Screwtape.

If your not familiar with C.S. Lewis's book "The Screwtape Letters," Screwtape is an upper-level functionary in the complex bureaucracy of the underworld.
(If that doesn't describe Washington D.C., I don't know what does.)

Screwtape (boss demon) wrote letters to his nephew Wormwood(lower level demon) on how best to procure the soul of his "patient." (Interestingly, World War II serves as the backdrop for the Letters) . The left seemed to think Ashcroft was out to procure all of our souls and the Patriot Act was one of his ways to insure he could keep his evil eye upon us.

I am, of course, making fun of the left's literal 'demonization" of Ashcroft in which Goldberg does a much better job than I ever could on proving Ashcroft unworthy of the assault of the leftwing/media machine.

Goldberg ends his piece summing up the truth about Ashcroft:

"By conventional standards, Ashcroft was among the best attorneys general in American history. Violent crime dropped 27 percent on his watch, reaching a 30-year low. Federal gun crime prosecutions rose 75 percent, and gun crimes dropped — something that should please liberals. By unconventional standards his service was heroic. There hasn't been a single terrorist attack since 9/11, despite all predictions by experts and efforts by terrorists to the contrary. Ashcroft was willing to take gross abuse to do what was necessary. Indeed, even the 9/11 commission certified that the Patriot Act was absolutely necessary to fix many of the problems that led to that awful day.
The chorus that treated him so shabbily says it's good such a "polarizing" figure is leaving. Fine. But maybe it's too bad the people who made him such a polarizing figure aren't."

h/t to BigDog's house for the NRO article.