Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Best of the Web reports:
Daschle, meanwhile, is accusing the president and vice president of "politicizing" the war. CNN reports Daschle is particularly miffed about Dick Cheney "urging an audience in Kansas to vote for a GOP congressional candidate because he supports President Bush" on Iraq.

This is the old bipartisanship argument in a new dress. During Clinton's impeachment, Dems argued strenuously that the Republicans weren't being bipartisan like they had been during Watergate. Of course, in Clinton's case this amounted to begging the question. Bipartisanship is nice but it isn't so good that people should give up their convictions for it.

Daschle's comments make me wonder what he thinks politics is all about. Here in Utah, the Republicans hold all the statewide offices, with majorities in both the House and Senate, and all but one of the federal elected positions. We get letters to the editor all the time from Democrats complaining that Utah has become a one-party state. If so, it's their own fault for not running candidates who can get elected. Nobody is going to vote for someone they don't agree with just for the sake of symmetry. Daschle seems to think there is some law that political pitches are supposed to be fair. Where has he been living?

The Democrats in Congress have made a conscious decision to support the President on the war against terror, and attack him on the economy which they see as their best issue. Why then blame the Republicans for running on their best issue?

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