Good ol' Andrew Sullivan links to the short article "Of Republicans and Banana-Republicans" [1] which is somewhat similar to what I was saying in September 2005's "Are we headed towards a Banana Republic?"

I might link directly to the article instead of using the plain text version below, except I saw this interesting collection of (direct, non-javascript) links at the bottom of the page. There's nothing wrong about that, but one wonders exactly why a magazine published since the 1850s is linking to sites like these:

[1] harpers.org/archive/2007/04/horton-republicans-banana-republicans