What if George W. Bush had done that?

One of the complaints conservatives have made recently is that if George W. Bush had done what President Obama had done the media would have gone crazy.

The latest in the craziness is an article, "What if George W. Bush had done that?" in Politico by Josh Gerstein, implying conservatives say, with a hint of jealousy: How does Obama get away with it?

Yes, how does Obama get away with, especially after the media was so tough on George W. Bush. Can you imagine the press writing a piece entitled "Mr. Bush Catches A Washington Break"?

Oh, wait that WAS an actual article, but it was from 2001, just a few months after Bush took office. Not like today. Anyway how could anyone one expect Mr. Gerstein to find that article or even less likely talk to the person who wrote the article. I mean how could he find the article's author, John Harris?

Wait, John Harris? Isn't he the Editor-in-Chief of Politico? Politico, the same place Mr. Gerstein works? Oh. But still Mr. Gerstein would have picked up the intercom or walked across the office and asked Mr. Harris "What if George W. Bush had done that?"

What would he found out? Well, Mr. Harris, as he said in his article, might have pointed out that "The truth is, this new president has done things with relative impunity that would have been huge uproars if they had occurred under Clinton. Take it from someone who made a living writing about those uproars."

But that wasn't his most important point, which was "Above all, however, there is one big reason for Bush's easy ride: There is no well-coordinated corps of aggrieved and methodical people who start each day looking for ways to expose and undermine a new president."

Instead Obama is facing an organized effort, in many cases led by Fox "News", to fight him at every step of the way. Bush, on the other hand, found the media, well as Rahm Emanuel pointed out "The Washington press corps has become like little puppy dogs," he said. "You scratch them on the tummy and they roll right over."

And they did roll over for several years. Today, apparently to conservatives, the problem is that the media isn't in full attack mode like Fox is.