1) Attacks Bush
2) Diverts attention away from the Dems (see? It wasn't our fault).
I wish there was a way of subpeonaing the Dem's polling of their focus groups the week before this broke. If I was on a talk show with them - that's what I'd ask them over and over. What did you know and when did you it?? Show me your talking points faxes for the last month.