Jane Austen, national security advisor? -- Maureen Dowd's column in today's NYTimes daintily skewers the "Pride and Prejudice" of both Bush and Kerry...well, a bit more of the former and less of the latter. On the GOP scuttling after the pro-Iraq-War Spanish government was ousted last week: "The Republicans certainly don't want anyone here to think about throwing somebody out of office because he was misleading about Al Qaeda." Heyyy....wait a second...she's got a point!