[Mia T]

correction:

That the Post "blasts both parties' is precisely my point. That the Post 'blasts' clinton is self-evident. Indeed, by inserting 'only,' the Post is even allowing that clinton wagged the dog!

But what the Post is doing here is trying to spare the DEMOCRATIC PARTY by spreading the blame to the Republicans--sophistry in my view. If the commander in chief is unwilling to take on Iraq (or terrorism, generally), there is litlle that the Congress can do, short of impeachment and removal

(I would agree with the Post's argument, if by 'Republican irresponsibility,' they mean GOP failure to depose the impotent ba$tard (clinton, not Saddam), but I don't think that is what the Post intended.

[Mia T]

Said another way, had the Post reduced the argument to GOP cognizance of the danger of CLINTON, then they would have had a point, because the GOP had the ability to cure THAT danger at the Senate trial.