So is McConnell criticizing Bush for sucking up to Sarkozy?

I mean, the GOP leader in the US Senate is criticizing Europe - maligning Europe, actually - only days after the new French president is invited for lots of private buddy-buddy sessions with George Bush. Bush seems to have made Sarkozy his new best friend. So then what are we to make of Mitch McConnell blasting anyone and everyone who would associate with "Old Europe?" In the grand scheme of Republican hate speech and bigotry, the only thing they have going for them any more, it doesn't get any more "Old Europe" than the French. Yet, it's the French who Bush have now embraced as, I'd argue, his potentially new best buddy in Europe, if not anywhere (he just lost Tony Blair).

So is Mitch McConnell implicitly blasting George Bush, and what kind of leadership and maturity does it show to malign the French head of state only days after he came to our country to visit our own president?

Not quite leadership material, that Mitch McConnell. Not to mention, the most inventive idea he could come up with is to plagiarize someone else's comments from years ago. It's a new world, Senator McConnell. The same old Republican talking points - the ones that lost you the Senate - just won't cut it. America voted for change.