The new left-wing line aimed at stopping the Paul Wolfowitz nomination at the World Bank is…he has a romantic relationship with a World Bank employee?? How lame is that? Isn’t this an almost comical grasping at straws by people who loved the “sophistication” of Mitterrand’s mistresses and were appalled by the sex-obsessed special prosecutors and House impeachment managers when they objected to the perjuries of the Kiss-It President? Maybe Europe will approve if gets a wife first before he has the girlfriend. (Both are divorced.)

Says the WashPost: “Bank policy allows spouses and partners to work on the staff as long as neither reports directly to the other, so the Wolfowitz-Riza relationship may not run afoul of those rules. But some staffers, speaking anonymously for fear of offending their prospective boss, said sentiment is running high that the ethics requirements should be stricter in cases involving the chief executive.” Sentiment, indeed, is running several blocks ahead of reasonableness.