Daschle Loses It

The Weekly Standard ^ | 02/10/03 | Stephen F. Hayes

[blackbart1]

Give him enough rope...just let him keep talking. This is so fun to watch!

[F.J. Mitchell]

Daschele-the Scott Ritter of the Senate. A little man without and no man at all within.

[fishbabe]

he isn't that bad...he just wants to wait till the missles are flying over the white house and then he'll tell bush to get off his lazy butt and fry those guys..{of course all the democrats will be in the bunkers that won't get touched|}

[MeekOneGOP]

There is no end to da$$holes Class Warfare/Divide Amerika actions. He has shown time and time again, especially since December 2001, a willingness to attack Bush with his bunk. I don't know how he keeps getting re-elected. The people of S. Dakota should be ashamed of him. I would not be surprised if they re-elect him again in 2004. If so, they should be ashames of themselves. Sheesh !

The bottom line? "There's no reason to talk unless he's willing to acknowledge and commit to that realization. Short of that, there's no purpose in more talk."

There's no purpose in more talk. That belief might explain what Daschle did next. Not content merely to offer rhetorical backing to President Clinton, Daschle tried to rally his fellow Democrats to support the use of force. He reiterated the administration's argument. "'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?' That's what they're saying. This is the key question. And the answer is, we don't have another option. We have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."

Daschle didn't insist that the Clinton administration obtain congressional approval. Neither did he require the president to go to the U.N. In fact, the Clinton administration's position, as articulated by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, was that both steps were unnecessary. Tom Daschle said nothing in protest. Similarly, Daschle never demanded evidence proving Saddam to be a "very imminent threat," and he never called for "proof to the world" that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He now insists on both from the Bush administration.

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By suggesting that Saddam may not currently possess weapons of mass destruction, Daschle implicitly accepts a series of bizarre assumptions: (1) that Saddam Hussein unilaterally disarmed at some point between 1998 and 2002, the four-year gap between U.N. inspections on Iraqi soil, (2) that he disarmed despite his refusal to do so for the seven years inspectors were in Iraq (1991-1998), and (3) that he somehow failed to notify the international community of this disarmament--a heads-up that would have ended the U.N. sanctions that have strangled the Iraqi economy.

No serious person believes this. Does Tom Daschle? I put the question to him directly.

"You don't think Saddam disarmed unilaterally, do you?"

"We don't have any concrete evidence that he has not," Daschle replied. "And that's the issue."

THAT ASSERTION places Daschle on the farthest antiwar fringe of his party, for it raises the possibility that Saddam Hussein is telling the truth and George W. Bush is lying. It may also explain why Daschle seems to be taking cues from the likes of Rep. Jim McDermott, one of three "Baghdad Democrats" who traveled to Iraq last fall to criticize the Bush administration. The similarities are striking.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the heads up and for the post...

[pt17]

Daschle Looses It

Daschle never had it.

[solo gringo]

Daschle is an evil ELF.All the hate this senator harbors for President Bush is beyond belief.The hate is so great that it has put our nation at risk.He has become a danger to all of us and should be replaced or let him be a senator working from a padded cell.

[solo gringo]

Daschle is an evil ELF.All the hate this senator harbors for President Bush is beyond belief.The hate is so great that it has put our nation at risk.He has become a danger to all of us and should be replaced or let him be a senator working from a padded cell.

[solo gringo]

sorry for the double post

[cksharks]

I give this my quote of the day vote.m So true! LOL :-}}

[cksharks]

I'll pick the little pos up so you dont have to bend over.

[Mo1]

Tommy is putting his Party above the welfare of the Country

[dalebert]

I am wondering just what kind of ties Daschle and the Bagdad Three have to Saddam. Maybe he has the good on them. Just kidding. I do know its obvious that Dems are busy trying to undermine foreign policy for political reasons.

[Dr. Zoo]

That is the democrat's way. They will do anything to regain power, even if it works towards the destruction of our Great Country.

[homeschool mama]

What else is new? Really...Tiny Tommie is such a waste.

[justshe]

You could pay me enough to be a Democrat. Thanks for the ping....and I think MOST Democrats put the party (read power)above ALL else..... including God, Country, and personal integrity.

[Pippin]

I would say something about what I really think of Daschile, but since I'm a lady and this is a "clean" site I'll tone it down a bit.

Daschile

STINKS!!!!!

[Pippin]

You're being too kind to him!

Where's the horns? LOL

[justshe]

You could N'T pay me enough, that is.

geeesh...

[Mason]

I can't believe no one's commenting on the central reason Clinton's macho was so important. He had to be seen as the war leader, because he was going down the tubes otherwise. We would never have had the impeachment, because the Dems would have had to force him out of office.

So give little Tommy a break. He's acted with perfect consistency. On both occasions, he was acting to save the Democratic Party. (And the rest of us should not worry, because in both circumstances, the Democrat Party was only damaging itself.)