Well, I’ve heard zero reasons Ms. Wilson (R-Attack Dog) will be resigning, but I’ve got to figure a person has to have some modicum of intelligence to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Certainly, Wilson has shown a lack of ethics in the past, embroiling herself in the US Attorney scandal and in a previous scandal involving the Department of Children Youth and Families of New Mexico when she served as Secretary of State there. This time, she showed a supreme lack of intelligence, simply making it up as she goes along, I suppose.

Heather Wilson was on Hardball last night, and she played attack dog to respond to the immense response to Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin. The McCain campaign is in a panic to blunt the positive publicity Barack is getting, and they’re saying just about anything in the process. Wilson even said the other day that McCain wants to get the troops home from Iraq faster than the 16 months Barack Obama and Nouri al-Maliki agree on. Wilson’s focus within Obama’s speech was on this section, where Obama seeks to renew cooperation between the US and Europe, From TPM:

Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand.

About that last line, Heather Wilson called Barack Obama naive and inexperienced. Of course, Obama was telling the truth: relationships between the US and Europe under George Bush are ruptured. But she didn’t let the truth get in the way. Here’s a bit of the transcript, from the right wingers at NewsBusters, who seem to think, erroneously, that Heather Wilson scored some points in her departure from reality:

HEATHER WILSON: Barack Obama has always had a great charismatic style, but the substance has never been there and his inexperience is one of the things that troubles a lot of people. Saying something like there’s a wall between the United States and Europe? We’ve been allies with Western Germany and with Germany as a whole since the end of the Second World War. NATO is one of our strongest alliances. And so, what’s he talking about? What’s the substance behind that –

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He’s talking about the fact that Europeans, Europeans hate George Bush.

WILSON: I think one of the things he tried to do in Israel was to reassure Americans that the mistakes he made with respect to Middle East policy because of his experience maybe they shouldn’t be concerned about that. He went there because of his inexperience to try to give himself some kind of kind of patina of credibility.

MATTHEWS: Are you say the United States has had a good relationship with Europe in the last seven years?

WILSON: Absolutely. Yes. The US relationship with NATO, with the UK, our relationship with the United Kingdom has never been closer, and that’s been spurred by common, mutual interest.

Actually, Heather Wilson, the European people have not trusted the US government since George Bush took office. That’s the plain and unvarnished truth. EU nations are pulling out their troops from places like Iraq and from the NATO forces in Afghanistan, and they’re more and more letting us do the work alone. OK, perhaps she’s harkening back to Bush’s own “Don’t forget Poland” remark, but harkening back to George Bush’s statements where he defends his weak and crumbling coalition is about the stupidest move Wilson could have made. She simply doesn’t get it, that George Bush not only squandered the opportunities 9/11 gave him, to unite all the peoples of the world against terrorism — Bush alienated much of Europe, so much so that Italy and a few other states there want to prosecute Us officials for torture and renditions. She twists recent history all to make a partisan political point.

Chris Matthews could have pinned her to the wall on the point. Shame on him for missing the opportunity.