It's not popular in Blogdom to say nice things about Washington insiders even when they die. But at the risk of attracting venom from those who see debate only in the poisonous black and white of good and evil, I'm going explain why the premature death of Tony Snow and Tim Russert just four weeks before are such huge losses.
Both Tony and Tim represented the very best of politics' "Competition of Ideas". Both were champions of the honorable disagreement, where...
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