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Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Democratic Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings is the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Democratic Senator Tom Daschle is the Majority Leader.
All three, over the past few days, have decided to declare war on President George W. Bush's handling of the war against terrorists.
A little history: Robert Byrd was interviewed several months ago on the Fox News Channel during which he used a phrase which is demeaning to African-Americans and disgusting to everyone else. Mullings won't repeat it here, but W.C. Fields once paraphrased it by saying "There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply."
At a hearing the other day, Byrd said, "If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this?"
Hollings, whom Mullings predicted last month would soon "start speaking French in committee meetings" didn't speak French the other day, but did sound like a politician FROM France when, in a frighteningly inarticulate ramble down I-95 he attempted to tie Larry Lindsay and Larry Summers and tax policy and Enron and the Cayman Islands and Osama bin Laden and President Bush to the attacks of September 11.
Then just yesterday, Majority Leader Tom Daschle who is desperate - desperate - to regain his previous standing as someone who was known as being pretty smart and politically adroit prior to that stink bomb of an "address" last December on taxes, decided to attack the President's handling of the war saying he needed to have "a clear understanding of what the direction" the President is taking in the war.
The Harris Poll folks show Daschle's job approve/disapprove numbers have tanked, going from 60-17 in October to 42-35 now.
So now come the Senior Democrats in the Senate in what can only be viewed as a coordinated attack on the President and it is fair to ask, "Why?"
The President's handling of the war is stuck at about 82% and the midterm elections are now less than 250 days away.
Every day that goes by is one less day for the Democrats to try and find a way to knock some of the luster off President Bush. Every day that goes by is another day that the President owns the agenda; foreign policy and domestic. Every day that goes by is another day for the President to go out into the countryside - as he is in Iowa today - and BE President.
And, every day that goes by shows the growing frustration and the growing rift between the Democratic Party's Extreme Left wing - the Al Sharpton wing - and the "New Democrats" who's fondest wish is for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment.
When White House advisor Karl Rove mentioned the President's handling of the war as a political issue earlier this year, the Democrats almost fainted in their shock and surprise.
Now, Bobby Byrd, Hollings & Tom have opened the door.
We don't have to go very far back in time to remember when every syllable uttered by Newt Gingrich was wrapped around the neck of every Republican by the Democrats. Republican - especially Republicans in the House - were constantly under the gun from reporters demanding that they either tie themselves to every word, or publicly repudiate the Speaker.
Every Republican candidate in America now has a free pass to ask their Democratic opponent something like:
"Do you agree with the Senate Leaders of your party attacks on President Bush's handling of the war? If not, are you willing to sign a statement demanding they retract their words?"
The very first person to ask this question should be Republican Congressman John Thune who is running against Democratic Senator Tim Johnson for the Senate seat in South Dakota - Tom Daschle's colleague.
On another front, the Pentagon's "Office of Strategic Influence" has been shut down even before it got going. Or has it? Maybe its first act of strategically influencing was to, what? Anyone? Mr. Galen? "To deny their existence."
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