The sensible left is finally starting to get it- but hey- I told you this months ago when you guys handed the reins to the likes of Pelosi and company. At any rate, here is Matthew Miller’s take:
Every so often you come across evidence that a political party is losing its mind. Something like that is happening to Democrats over President Bush’s fabulous “top gun” photo-op aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. It’s a case study in how Bush and Karl Rove have left so many Democrats undone.
Rep. Henry Waxman of California has asked the General Accounting Office to provide a full accounting of the landing’s costs, since the event had “clear political overtones.” Sen. Robert Byrd, who, as longtime appropriations czar, is in no position to throw stones over dubious uses of taxpayer money, lashed out at Bush instead for “flamboyant showmanship,” saying the White House had no business using the carrier “as an advertising backdrop” for the president’s speech. Democratic staffers are working overtime to gin up media interest in the “scandal.”
Go read the whole thing.
*** Update ***
Richard Cohen says Jeanne Kirpatrick was right (via BOTW).
Sal
”But this latest episode shows how demoralizing life in the minority must be. Henry Waxman is admired even by Republicans for having done more over his career to extend health coverage to poor and near-poor Americans than perhaps anyone in the country.”
This is a crock and you all know it. Republicans aren’t ALLOWED to repsect anything ‘lieberal’ you simply aren’t allowed. They HATE Waxman for trying to get health coverage for the poor…I take that back, The republicans in congress may respect him for it but they were never let the trained folowers know that. They have keep you hating somthing.
Sal
”But this latest episode shows how demoralizing life in the minority must be. Henry Waxman is admired even by Republicans for having done more over his career to extend health coverage to poor and near-poor Americans than perhaps anyone in the country.”
This is a crock and you all know it. Republicans aren’t ALLOWED to repsect anything ‘lieberal’ you simply aren’t allowed. They HATE Waxman for trying to get health coverage for the poor…I take that back, The republicans in congress may respect him for it but they were never let the trained folowers know that. They have keep you hating somthing.
John Cole
Sal- I don’t hate Waxman for getting health care coverage for the poor. I hate him because he is a partisan hack.
Forgot the meds again this morning, I see.
JKC
John-
Take it easy on poor Sal. There’s a lot of rage in there…. not sure why.
As for Henry Waxman… well, partisan he may be, but a hack? He’s no worse than Tom DeLay or Bob Barr.
Guess it all depends on whose ox is getting gored… :)