Making Mountains

Wow. Talk about turning molehills into mountains. The Wall Street Journal's Political Wire has really jumped the shark on this one. Writer Yochi J. Dreazen has decided that President Bush took an outright Joe McCarthy-like slap at the Democrats by dropping two letters from the prepared text that Dreazen received from Bush's actual spoken speech.

The freaking sky is falling all over.

President Bush departed from the prepared text of his State of the Union address to graciously congratulate Nancy Pelosi on her history-making selection as the first female Speaker of the House. Then he departed from the prepared text a second time to take a jab at Pelosi and the rest of the new Democratic majority of Congress.

In the prepared text of the speech, sent out by the White House some 40 minutes before Bush ascended the House rostrum, the president was to say, “Some in this Chamber are new to the House and Senate – and I congratulate the Democratic majority.” When Bush delivered the line, however, he paid tribute to the “Democrat majority.”

Dropping the “ic” from the word “Democratic” may seem insignificant, but it was almost certainly a deliberate move by Bush, who has used the phrase “the Democrat Party” for months as a way of needling his opponents.

You really have to read this hyperventilating bloviation to believe it. Dreazen actually invokes McCarthy. He actually paints this as THE indication that there will be no bipartisanship for the next two years. Oh. My. God. The party of the Democratics is being freaking robbed of being called democrats because Bush stole their two letters. Oh. My. God. It is rabid, slavering partisanship at its very worst. EVER.

Good lord. It would be an enormous insult to call this WSJ report childish. Children are much more mature.