[Molly Pitcher]

Bait and switch....that phrase was used on the Live thread this a.m. Very apropos....

[Molly Pitcher]

Ping!

[Miss Marple]

Thanks Molly, and I know the author!

hchutch, your phrase is getting traction!

[dansangel]

"The only thing they haven't done is stand up for any principle, contribute much that's constructive to the national dialogue, or show even a rote display of leadership or credibility."

I believe it has something to do with the lack of a "back-bone gene" which is a prevalent condition among the Dims....

[fporretto]

Any terrorist attack now or soon - by Saddam, his proxies or his allies - will be blamed by some Democrats on Bush. See, they'll say. His war-talk provoked this. But if no attack happens in the next few months, they will use that in turn to argue that war is unnecessary, that Saddam is no real threat, and so on.

I always thought of this as the "heads I win, tails you lose" argument. It's non-falsifiable, since it involves irreversible conditions. In any event, it's intellectually insubstantial. We credit people with understanding when their forecasts are shown to be correct; knowledge of the past, though estimable, is not the same thing.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[McLynnan]

Thanks for the ping. I share Sullivan's disgust. I didn't think the Dems could go any lower than they did when they stood by The Impeached One, but I was wrong. Their partisan effort to hold on to the Senate at any cost, and their inexcusable public questioning of the President's motives have gone way, way beyond anything I can remember.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Great analysis by someone who ought to know. Thanks for the ping, MP.

[The Raven]

Good catch! And on top of it - the Dems are using litigation more and more to maintain power.