Repulsive Clinton butt girl, Eleanor Clift, has weighed in with the official leftist spin. You don't need to follow the link - in a nutshell her whine is that:
Eleanor's chagrin about rodent boy reflects that of her masters in the Democrat leadership who had scripted his bloviations:
- Liberating Iraq is a Bush family vendetta against Saddam
- Spineless South Dakota prairie dog, Tommy Daschle, is being demonized by the White House
- United Nations good
Sen. Tom Daschle's criticism of President Bush and his administration dusted up more controversy than the Democratic leader expected, in part because the polling the Democrats had done leading up to Daschle's comments indicated that his language would fly.No excrement, Sherlock. Meanwhile, Tommy got into another mixup (courtesy of Registered):
"We focus-grouped and tested the idea that Bush had failed miserably as a diplomat and most of our respondents agreed," says a Democratic leadership aide. "It seemed like the perfect approach for us." Apparently it wasn't.
Daschle was excoriated in the Monday news cycle, and seemed genuinely surprised by the furor when he stepped to the microphone for a regular press briefing in the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon.
No information on the polling was available, but several Democratic sources said that, like the Senate Democrats, the Democratic National Committee was also studying how best to appeal to the party's left-wing, anti-war base, while also appearing to support the American troops poised to cross into Iraq.
"Everything we were seeing [in the numbers] was that Bush was ripe for criticism for failing to peacefully resolve this," said a House Democratic leadership aide. "That's why so many of our people have been out there hitting him on that point. But maybe it was just bad timing."
