[ThePythonicCow]

Strange that this wasn't posted when it was published several days ago.

Anyhow, Rush Limbaugh just read the part above that I emboldened, in his tirade against Daschle's speech complaining that Bush is politicizing the war.

[Alberta's Child]

The Democratic leaders in Congress, in both the House and Senate, largely have abandoned principle and long-term strategy for the short-term tactics they think will help them in this November's election.

I wonder why Broder is so upset about this -- the Democrats abandoned any pretense of "principle" once when they climbed into bed with Bill Clinton in 1992 and then again when they refused to climb out in 1999.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"During the Vietnam War, antiwar forces were vocally represented by Sens. Morse, Gruening, Fulbright, McCarthy, McGovern, Robert Kennedy, etc. But we do not hear antiwar voices in the Senate today. . . . What's going on?"

Gee, do you think it could have anything to do with the fact that [although larger issues were involved] the Vietnam War involved a small, obscure country half-way around the world that had not attacked us, whereas now we are fighting a war on people WHO FLEW PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS AND KILLED 3,000 OF OUR PEOPLE?

[Congressman Billybob]

Broder is an aging blowhard who has made a career of giving the impression he knows what he is talking about, to Administrations on both sides of the fence. Given that, it is also true that even a blind pig can find an acorn now and then.

This is a rare instance of this blind pig of a journalist finding an acorn of political truth.

Congressman Billybob

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