Washington Reruns

From Geoffrey Norman in today's The American Spectator:

Marx's famous line about history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, might have been right for its time. But these days, when showbiz trumps everything, history repeats itself in the form of reruns and sequels. Or maybe history is just Law and Order. We go from Ben, Adam and Lennie to Fred Thompson and the blonde. Nothing changes except...the show becomes a bore and everyone pretty much quits watching.