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| DNC to the faithful: support Daschle |
| 2003-03-21 |
| In the hours before and after the president's order Wednesday night to begin the war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the DNC sent e-mails to its grass-roots activists that said "Democratic leaders are standing up to Bush; Make sure you stand up for them!... Republicans will stop at nothing to gain a political advantage from this military conflict." But not us Donks! We're above such low-brow partisan tactics! Another e-mail sent Wednesday to DNC's members and supporters just hours before hostilities in Iraq were about to begin, said, "We must spread the word that Democrats are standing up and speaking out for all Americans in this dangerous time." Even if they don't agree with us... The e-mail took Republicans to task for rebuking Mr. Daschle for his attack on the president's war policies Tuesday. The rebuke by Mr. Hastert and other Republicans triggered a wave of DNC e-mails to Democrats, saying that "Republicans have responded with personal attacks on Democrats, questioning their patriotism in order to gain a political advantage from the military conflict." Mr. Daschle and his Democratic counterpart in the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, have vowed to continue to speak out on the war, while other Democrats say the time for debate is over. "There are better ways to express opposition to the war. I don't think the statements by the Democratic leadership have been examples of better ways of expressing opposition to the war," said Bill Galston, a veteran policy strategist with the centrist-leaning Democratic Leadership Council. Somebody shut that guy up, quick! Interviews with more than a dozen Democratic state chairmen during the past two days showed that while all of them defended Mr. Daschle for speaking out, they wanted the party to end its criticism of the war. Beginning to suspect it doesn't play well in flyover country, are we? |
| Posted by:John Phares |
| #3 ... and Senator Byrd will continue to weep and find the manhole cover in West Virginia that hasn't been named after him. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-21 15:35:35 |
| #2 Thanks (Fred?) for condensing my layout ... I haven't quite got the hang of posting here yet. |
| Posted by: John Phares 2003-03-21 14:39:45 |
| #1 It is one thing to occasionally shoot onself in the foot, but it takes a real moron to amputate ones foot and place it in ones mouth. It also takes a real man or woman to admit that they may be wrong and to move on. Number two seems to be evident here. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-21 14:29:18 |