Posted by Dan Ewert : 2/05/2003 10:02:00 PM (Archive Link)
How out of step can the Democrats be? The big news of the day, obviously, was Powell’s speech to the UN. So long about 1:30 PM Central Time, Fox News announces they’re going to a Tom Daschle press conference. Excellent, I thought! I wanted to hear the Democratic response to Powell from the party’s Senate leader. What was he talking about, though? Judicial confirmations in the Senate! Not that it isn’t important, but it was utterly out of place. In fact, after a minute or so, Fox cut away because it had nothing to do with the big story and was taking away from their analyzation of the big story. It’s as if the entire world is talking about oranges and Daschle, grinning, says, “I like apples.” It was one of the silliest things I’ve seen and loses for the Democrats whatever little credibility they had in the foreign policy arena.

To add on to it all, Daschle was discussing the possible filibuster of Hispanic judicial nominees and he had other Hispanic politicians behind him to support his cause saying they didn’t like the nominees either. Nobody plays the race card like the Dems. Imagine if the Republicans had done that.