Many years ago, WFB tried to get a new word going: “priving” — kind of slang for “privatizing.” He was hoping that “priving” would become all the rage in government, which, of course, it did not. I thought of this when reading this report on Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey: He’s priving like mad, or at least attempting to do so. It is thrilling. When reading about Christie, as I have for these several months, I have been almost slack-jawed, thinking, “Did he really just do that? Did he really just say that? Are you kidding?” I was often this way with George W. Bush. I know you’re not supposed to praise Bush, but I really don’t care. He’d do something like give John Bolton a recess appointment, when the Left had killed his nomination in the Senate. I’d think, “Did the president really just do that? Send John Bolton to the U.N. without Senate confirmation — without Chris Dodd’s blessing?” Another example: He gave Oscar Biscet, the Cuban political prisoner, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I mean, you just don’t do that. NPR was duly ticked — because, for one thing, the prisoner was anti-abortion. You give the medal to people like Mary Robinson, the Irish U.N. leftist who presided over the “Durban conference,” that Jew-hating jamboree. President Obama did that. Or you give it to Archbishop Tutu. Obama did that, too. Can I give you a Tutu greatest hit? It comes from 2004, when the archbishop was in full cry against the Iraq War and everything else Bush. He said, “God is weeping. God is weeping. God is weeping because — one of the incredible things, I mean, is that Saddam Hussein, bin Laden, George Bush are all God’s children. And as God says, ‘What ever got into me to create that lot?’” Nice one, Your Grace. Real nice. Such a moral paragon you are. You want another Tutu hit (this one not so wicked)? In 2002, he said, “People are scared in this country” — the United States — “to say wrong is wrong, because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful.” Yeah, whatever. In any case, there is considerable good in the man too. Sometimes he disguises it very well.