The remembrance of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor took on partisan political spin Tuesday with a Democrat leader using it to attack House Republicans.
Could McAuliffe be any more politically tone deaf?
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a special Pearl Harbor Day statement, said national unity 63 years ago enabled Americans to go forward and defeat the country's enemies, but the same kind of unity needed now was being undermined by Republican disagreements over provisions of the yet-to-be-voted on intelligence reform bill.
This from the party that has time and time again violated the time-honored tradition of leaving politics at the water's edge?!
"While we as a nation are united in this fight,
We are? When did that start including the Democrats?
there are clearly deep divisions within the Republican Party, divisions that are impeding our fight against terrorism," he said.
Should I laugh or cry? James Sensenbrenner's concerns over handing out driver's licenses to people who have no legal right to be here is just as much a part of the 911 Commission's as intelligence reform. The 19 hijackers had 63 valid driver's licenses between them... |