CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: IT'S THE JOOOOZZ!!

"Angry Left Fantasyland" (WSJ-BOTW)
In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe," reports the Washington Post's Dana Milbank. They held a pretend "impeachment inquiry over the Iraq war," with Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, playing "chairman," in which role he "spouted . . . chairmanly phrases, such as 'unanimous consent' and 'without objection so ordered.' " Conyers & Co. called several "witnesses," among them Ray McGovern, who "said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon":

"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."

Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."

At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations--that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11--that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks.