The Wall Street Journal publishes a column about ME!

Well … not “me” by name, but they couldn’t have hit the target any closer. Today’s Journal has an opinion piece by Peter Berkowitz titled Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria Are Two Sides of the Same Coin.

Well, Ja!!! Sounds right to me.

Just to orient you a bit, Berkowitz is a minor conservative celebrity best known for unsuccessfully suing Harvard University after he was denied tenure in the Harvard department of Government. Hard cheese, there Pete! When he isn’t lobbying for Zionist causes, he passes the time and rakes down a few shekels at George Mason University and the conservative think tank, the Hoover Institution. And, for those who may have missed it, the Wall Street Journal is now owned lock, stock and closing prices by the fine individual who has brought you those bastions of journalistic integrity, Fox News and the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch.

Makes a man proud to be on the other side of the fence from folks like that!

The part of Berkowitz’s piece that I love the most is this paragraph:

“Bush hatred and Obama euphoria typically coexist in the same soul. And it is disproportionately members of the intellectual and political class in whose souls they flourish.”

Why, thank you so very much! Intellectualism and hatred of Bush do seem to go together well, don’t they?

One of the more entertaining parts of the piece was his attempt to enlist the ghost of Alexander Hamilton in his cause by quoting part of The Federalist Papers. He claims Hamilton would be on his side because he wrote that “refined political expectations” “would furnish a lesson of moderation to those, who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right, in any controversy.”

In other words, Berkowitz wants us to listen to both sides of arguments and be a little less sure that we’re always right about everything.

And he’s defending the great “uniter, not a divider” on these grounds !!??? Gaaakkk!! No wonder Harvard didn’t want him!

Besides, Hamilton, if my memory serves, was the founding father who died in a duel with Aaron Burr fought over political passions. Not the best authority for moderation.

Berkowitz is primarily distressed because there seems to be a lot of us who still remember that Bush is the criminal responsible for the mess that we’re in and who still want something done about it. As he puts it, “Now that George W. Bush has left the harsh glare of the White House and Barack Obama has settled into the highest office in the land, it might be reasonable to suppose that Bush hatred and Obama euphoria will begin to subside.”

No way! Are Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Gonzales, et al. behind bars yet? Then justice still has not been done! As long as we fail to punish the subversion of the Constitution and official malfeasance in office, it is all too likely to happen again.

Now that Obama is in office, my biggest regret is that we couldn’t impeach Bush while we had the chance.