It's "Specious Argument Day" in Wingnutville, and Mort Kondracke has just turned in his assignment.

(Headline stolen remorsely from Jeff at State of the Day.)

Apparently Mort didn’t manage to rescue his spittle-flecked essay, Bush-hatred a threat to national security, from the jaws of the pooch determined to eat his homework, though, because it’s a pile of dogshit.

ENOUGH already! It's harmful enough that ideological conflict and partisan politics are preventing this country from solving its long-term challenges on health care, fiscal policy and energy. Now it's threatening our national survival.

…Yes, Republicans tried to destroy former President Bill Clinton over sex and politics. But now Democrats want to destroy Bush so badly that they are willing to undercut national security.

You’ve really got to read the whole thing. I ellipsised a lot of good stuff there. Like the invisible leap between the media who report on leaks—and, reports Mort breathlessly with an unshakable case of the vapors, “win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures”—and the Democrats, armed with their nasty case of vengeance. It’s impossible to know who Mort really blames the most, although I think it’s safe to say he’d prefer all criticism of Bush to cease immediately.

Oh, and that he also seems to be suffering from the misapprehension that Bush hasn’t done anything to warrant anyone’s displeasure. Including people outwith our borders—which also makes him blind to the painful irony of his headline.