Poor Tom Daschle. He's shocked, shocked and furious that the other party could behave "politically". It reminds me of the old saw among lawyers that when the facts and the law are against you, you should "baffle them with b.s."



I'm listening to NPR covering this. E J. Dionne says the Democrats are angry that Bush is "making this a political issue." But David Brooks rightly points out that this is really a meta-issue, not about what we should do in Iraq, but about how the other side is making its arguments. That pretty much nails it.



Daschle doesn't know how to campaign against Bush on the war, so he whines that Bush isn't being fair. Dionne calls it "demonizing" those who don't agree with his policy. I thought that was what politics is all about. Remember "Give-em-hell Harry" Truman, and his maxim, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"? Daschle's problem is not Bush's rhetoric; it's that he's presiding over a do-nothing Senate and doesn't have a good policy of his own.