On days when I have received unexpected money, I say that I feel just great. And, yes, our new president would be a constant target. He sashayed around the nation intoning straight-arrow morality when he himself is a dubiously reformed profligate, a boozer who was arrested for driving while drunk and concealing that fact until a critic outed him. Dorothy Parker would be all over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's detractors. She would tell them to shut up.
Pretense is probably our favorite target.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column blasting Republicans who now want Democrats to stop being sore losers and accept Bush as president. These are the same guys and dolls who tried for eight years to bring down Bill Clinton. I also took a shot at white Southerners, still fighting the Civil War, who now want Democrats to forget and get over having lost the White House. I have written many times, in a nasty manner, about the hypocrisy of Justice Thomas and California businessman Ward Connerly. While both benefited from affirmative action, they turn around and pretend that they pulled themselves up by their own little bootstraps.