DEMOCRATS PUTTING PARTY OVER COUNTRY The day before President Bush delivered the State of the Union address, Sen. Tom Daschle (D, SO) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) marched to the National Press Club to declare, "The state of the union is anxious." Whatever anxiety existed, they exploited with gusto. In a jaw-dropping performance, the Senate and House Minority Leaders mounted a venomous State-of-the-Union "pre-buttal," proceeding to rip the President on everything from the economy to the war on terror. Not much, according to these Democrats, was right with the way America was being governed, and they were just the...
