I got some reader flak for my “More mush from the wimp” crack about the president, and maybe I deserved it. But I’d suggest that the president’s approach to immigration enforcement, and domestic issues in general (as opposed to foreign policy) legitimately opens him to the charge, whereas calling Hastert an “idiot” is a much more sweeping and gratuitously derogatory charge, likely prompted by his unsophisticated, Midwestern-high-school-wrestling-coach demeanor. Since Frist is arguably a worse leader in the Senate than Hastert is in the House, is Frist also an “idiot”? Or does his medical degree insulate from that charge?