Racicot Blasts Daschle's Miserable Failure

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/18/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Republicans are for a change fighting back at obstructionist Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who didn't fret over Bill Clinton's wag-the-dog wars but claims "this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war."

But it's Little Tommy who's the miserable failure, according to Republican National Chairman Marc Racicot, who denounced the South Dakota leftist's "divisive and brazen political posturing."

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer today noted the hypocrisy of Daschle, who said in September, after President Bush pointed out that Democrats were putting politics ahead of national security, that "we ought not politicize this war."

And get this: Daschle raised no objections Monday in a meeting at the White House with other lawmakers shortly before the president's address. "He said nothing," Fleischer said.

That's because he's too cowardly to attack the president unless he's surrounded by the party's hard core. Here's what he said to the Democrat-owned drones in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees:

"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." Like other globalists, he wants "permission" from the thugs at the U.N.

Never mind all the lives Bill Clinton sacrificed in the Balkans and Iraq. Block out that picture of those vicious Somalians desecrating the bodies of American soldiers.

Racicot observed that "it is disheartening and shameful for Senator Daschle, who has previously advocated and authorized the use of force in Iraq, to now blame America first."

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[Peach]

In 1998, Clinton passed the Iraqi Liberation Act which called for regime change, but decided to bomb Serbia instead. Daschle supported that resolution by saying the following: "Look, we have exhausted virtually our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do so? ... The answer is, we don't have another option. We have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily." And what is Daschle saying now? Now that we have a Republican in the White House who is finally going to do what Clinton should have done ten years ago? Daschle says that he’s “.. saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we’re now forced to go to war".

[talleyman]

Thanks for Temper Tantrum Tommy's feedback link! I thought I should be discreet, so I wrote him:

"You are a whining, treacherous, obstructionist, lying, hypocritical, miniscule worm, not fit to crawl under President Bush's shoes. By taking pot shots at an honest, noble man, you make yourself even smaller than you were."

[Nitro]

You forgot to mention he has a face like a "puckered rectum!!"

[Lee'sGhost]

Haven't the people of SD been embarrased by this guy enough to do something about him yet? I thought people from SD were patriotic enough to be offended by this guy and independent enough to do something about him.

[geedee]

[CyberAnt]

I'm glad Ari exposed the fact that Daschle never said anything in his personal meeting with the President. Daschle has just further exposed the fact that this statement was a stab in the back to the President. You can't get much more disrespectful than that.

[CyberAnt]

"saddened by Bush's failure" - newest talking point issued by Hitlery!!

[Peach]

Does Hitlery remember 12/16/98 when Clinton said the following (Wasn't democracy a failure then as well?): President Bill Clinton Wednesday defended his decision to order airstrikes against Iraq, saying Saddam Hussein had failed his "one last chance" to cooperate with United Nations resolutions. "So we've had to act and act now."

"Earlier today I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces," Clinton said during his Oval Office address to the nation.

"Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs, and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the middle east and around the world," Clinton said.

A showdown between the U.S. and Iraq six weeks ago, when again the military action was threatened, ended with Saddam Hussein's promise to give U.N. inspectors unconditional access to Iraqi facilities so they could determine if Iraq was rebuilding its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs.

At the time, Clinton said he "concluded then that the right thing to do was to use restraint and give Saddam one last chance to prove his willingness to cooperate. I made it very clear at that time what 'unconditional cooperation' meant."

The American president said a report by inspectors to the U.N. over the weekend determined that Iraq had failed to fulfill that promise and had instead placed new restrictions on the inspections.

In response, Clinton gave the go ahead for "Operation Desert Fox."

Both directly and indirectly, Clinton addressed the impeachment crisis his presidency is currently facing. He defended the timing of strikes, which his critics have questioned in light of Thursday's scheduled debate and floor vote.

He also said that Saddam Hussein should not believe that domestic troubles in the U.S. would deter the nation from taking decisive action.

"Saddam Hussein and the other enemies of peace may have thought that the serious debate before the House of Representatives would distract Americans," Clinton said. "But once more the United States has proven that although we are never eager to use force, when we must act in America's vital interests we will do so."

White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said earlier that the president made his decision Wednesday morning after reviewing the United Nation's report.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Too funny!

[lodwick]

POS bttt

[SpinyNorman]

The only way Daschole could look like more of a sour grapes little prick would be to pull a condom over his head. And it wouldn't have to be a large condom either......

[cricket]

"I'm glad Ari exposed the fact that Daschle never said anything in his personal meeting with the President."

This is an important fact that needs to be incorporated into every response re TD's treachery, to convey to all, just what a 'wormtongue' Daschle truly is.

[Fiddlstix]

Daschle is an idiot!

[husky ed]

I believe Daschle was wearing elevater shoes in that photo!

Hell, Tom Thumb was more of a man then him!

[CPT Clay]

American federation for State, Countey and Municipal Employees....Why do the nee a Union? Is the capitalist going to cut their wages?

[desertcry]

Little tommy is indeed a small man in mind, body and spirit.
It is fitting that he leads a party of similar proportions.

[uncitizen]

The best place for a union is where there is no competition to start with.

[jmaroneps37]

Tiny tommy has proven once again that little men think little thoughts.

[ottersnot]

Clinton succeeded in one thing. He proved that turning the other cheek to the Usama Bin Laden would not be an affective tool in stopping him. He tried this at least three times and it did not work. It did not prevent 9/11 and it did not make the world a safer place.

Thank god for this President. When he says we will track down and punish someone he means it, and it happens. I trust Bush, and I feel safer under his leadership.