Oh people, people, people...

Kesher Talk ("News and views from a hawkish liberal Jewish perspective") has some unkind things to say about an interview with Joe Wilson that appeared in my local paper. To wit that he was being "ironic":

“The fact that this may become a crisis of governance should please no one,” Wilson said at a private hotel reception before speaking in downtown Seattle Wednesday evening.

Yes, that is a very proper and admirable sentiment. No doubt that is why the Dems, taking their clues from him, have christened Indictment Day, which could come any day now, as a new holiday, called Fitzmas. In the sense of isn’t it wonderful…it’s beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas. And of course some people are worried that the Grinch will steal Fitzmas this year. In which case, their schadenfreude level won’t be met.

People...I'll say it slowly. Wilson. Was. Right. In the almost three years since our wrongheaded invasion of Iraq, that has only become more clear: Wilson was right. And because he was right, men at the highest levels of our goverment put out a "hit" on him and his family.

If those of us who belong (more or less) to the Democratic party are seen to be enjoying the idea that people who do wrong might actually be punished for it, well, it's not because we're taking our "clues" (they meant cues) from Wilson or anybody else.

It's because that's what happens in the America we believe in and have been missing for five years; what some hawks liked to call "accountability" when it was about sex. It's not schadenfreude, it's relief.