Here's a couple of d'oh! moves by Democrats this week.

First there was liberal commentator Bill Press' comment that a Lovenstein Institute study had cofirmed that President George W. Bush is the stupidest president in the last century or so. Of course, this is an old Internet hoax -- I was first shown it by a Union-Tribune editor back in 2004 right after Bush's re-election -- but the Internet thing is new to Press.

When he realized that he'd been hoaxed, he resorted to the CBS "fake but accurate" line.

I've said this before, but I've got a feeling that President Bush is smarter than 99.9 percent of the people who think he's stupid. It's the old Mark Twain story about how when Twain was 14 his father was an idiot, but when Twain reached the age of 21, he was amazed at how much his father had learned writ large.

Yes, Bill Press is part of the 99.9 percent.

Next we are treated to a beatdown on Sen. John Kerry by U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton. Yesterday when Bolton was before the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on his nomination, Sen. Kerry (D-Ketchup) took issue with the administration's handling of North Korea. Unfortunately, Kerry was using the Clinton foreign policy standard.

John Kerry: This has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador.

John Bolton: It's the nature of multilateral negotiations, Senator.

John Kerry: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done? That's what the Clinton Administration did.

John Bolton: And, very poorly since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.

Kerry definitely isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.