VINTAGE WHINE: Paging Dr. Phil.....Paging Dr. Phil.....Call Tom Daschle.....STAT!!!
Having failed to find an election-year issue on which the Democrats can beat a popular Republican president, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle chose an innovative political strategy -- faking a seizure on the Senate floor today. Well, not quite a seizure but it was close. And damned funny. It was like watching a lame-o improv acting class after the artsy instructor pitches the situation: "Now you're a . . . senate majority leader whose feelings are hurt by the president!"
Daschle whined that the president is politicizing the war for electoral gain. It was a hilariously over-the-top attempt at feigning offense and outrage and Daschle resembled an overly emotional daytime talkshow guest more than a the congressional leader. He then indignantly demanded an apology from the president.
Of course, Daschle was lying; Bush didn't slam Senate Dems regarding the war. While campaigning for Republican senate candidates, Bush ripped Senate Dems for bottling up his homeland security bill and urged voters to elect a Republican senate. Outrageous, huh? (Of course, Daschle had nothing to say when his stringpuller, Bill Clinton, actively sought to blame his "extremist" Republican opposition for the Oklahoma City bombing. And wasn't it Daschle who grossly miscalculated when he questioned Bush's prosecution of the war in Afghanistan just days before the Taliban was all but defeated by the American military?)
As with Daschle's previous attempts to slime Bush, today's, the most desperate yet, failed. But it did confirm one thing: Saddam Hussein hasn't a thing to fear from Tom Daschle.
