[hobbes1]

Rockefeller's comments, however, were nothing next to those from former President Bill Clinton's on Tuesday's "Larry King Live," which left the Democrats on Capitol Hill almost speechless. Clinton, who said he had bombed Iraq in 1998, in part because of the threat of Saddam's nuclear program, took virtually all the air out of the Democrats' plans to continue attacking the White House's handling of uranium purchase intelligence used in the State of the Union Address.

"He had to have done it for Hillary. They are up to something," says a Howie Dean presidential campaign staffer in New Hampshire. "We can't believe our party's leader would stab us in the back unless there was something more to it. Maybe he's setting us all up for something else. Or he thinks by clearing the field of a national security topic, it will be easier for Hillary to enter the race and focus on domestic policy.

Toldjaso.

[NeoCaveman]

You think they wouldn't be shocked that the Klinton's only do things for the Klintons.

Hey new angle: Dean the Green! to take away the Hildebeast's base.

[Noumenon]

I love when they eat their own.

[bayourod]

Maybe that yahoo from Texas was right when he said at the 1980 Democratic convention that "The Republicans are the party of the Rockefellers, and the Democrats are the party of the little fellers."