On Ms. California & Waterboarding

What, you ask? Ms. California and waterboarding?

Mark Steyn puts the two together in "Pelosi peregrinations":

Mrs. Feinstein says airily that no reasonable person would hold dear Mrs. Pelosi to account for what she supported all those years ago. But it's OK to hold Mr. Cheney or some no-name Justice Department backroom boy to account?

Well, sure. It's the Miss USA standard of political integrity: Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and President Obama have the same publicly stated views on gay marriage. But the politically correct enforcers know Mr. Obama doesn't mean it, so that's OK, whereas Miss Prejean does mean it, so that's a hate crime.

In the torture debate, Mrs. Pelosi is Mr. Obama and Mr. Cheney is Miss Prejean. Mr. Cheney means it, because to him, this is a national security issue. Mrs. Pelosi doesn't, because to her, it's about shifting political-viability breezes.

A question: Which of these people would you want in that foxhole next to you?