The whole week was

“The whole week was double-ply, wall-to-wall ugly. The tone was set early on … Allowances should be made for rhetorical excess … But, even so, the Republican Party reached an unimaginably slouchy, and brazen, and constant, level of mendacity last week … [President Bush] is in “campaign mode” now, which means mendacity doesn’t matter, aggression is all and wall-to-wall ugly is the order of battle for the duration.”