The Democrats' Stark hypocrisy

Victor Davis Hanson herein takes on Democratic hypocrisy regarding Joe Wilson, recalling that Rep. Pete Stark accused Dubyah on the House floor of deriving amusement from the deaths of American servicemen in Iraq, and that virtually the entire Democratic membership of Congress booed and heckled Mr. Bush during his 2005 State of the Union address.

The Democratic House blocked an attempt by Republicans to reprimand the chronically erratic and intemperate Stark.

It had no such compunctions, of course, about reprimanding Wilson- who, unlike Stark, actually admitted that he was out of line. Stark's "apology" merely regretted the possibility that his boorish behavior might distract attention from important matters of public business.