So much for "objective" journalism. They are truly scum. Pure MSM scum. This is how the MSM tries to tame all non-leftists into RINOs: if you dare to respond with facts and intelligent argument to a scurrilous 2-year campaign of grotesque lies and distortions you are "escalating a bitter.... debate"!!!!!!! Of course, the lying charlatans who have been enabled by AP and Roto-Rooters and all of the MSM are never causing or "escalating" any bitter debates, no, leftists are merely providing objective truth (HA, HA) and the rest of us are angry, bitter, easily dismissed right-wingers..... this is why people like McVain and Haggle behave the way they do, because they dread ever seeing their name in any MSM headline associating them with any angry bitter right-wingers....
And in this they show their true colors. NO BALLS. And for a Navy aviator and Marine to perform that way. It is like when you join the club they remove your gonads, and I don't know what they remove in case of the women.
At least McVain has in the past few days, again he was on Jim Lehher report PBS, and he insisted to questions in no un-certain terms that it was very wrong for the demorats to be coming out with lies. And he did use the word "lie" to acredit their performance. So perhaps they where waiting for a lead from the POTUS to start to make more forceful statements. Who knows more of them may start to come out of the closet and defend the administrations actions. For heaven sakes most of them voted to send our guys into Iraq.
But being political animals they are two damn timid. Can't expect them to act like Zell Miller. He had nothing to lose at that point.
Let's be clear on the time frame.
2002 The central issue in the mid-term election was the use of force in Iraq. The appeasement based isolationist dems failed to make their case and they lost at the ballot box.
2003 The whiney liberals complained while we seized Baghdad, Got Uday and Qusay, Got KSM, and got Saddam.
2004 The whiney libs moaned and complained while we removed 1.7 tons from Iraq.
2005 The appeasement isolationist liberals still don't know why they lost in 2004.
The appeasement isolationist liberals have had 4 YEARS to make their case, and they failed at every turn.