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To: Sully- who wrote (16919)	2/4/2006 4:45:42 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

The Democrat's Sisyphus* By Daniel McKivergan WorldwideStandard.com In September, Roll Call reported that the House Minority Whip, Rep. Steny Hoyer (MD), had cobbled together a dozen or so of his colleagues "to shape the Democratic strategy on national security issues and battle perceptions that the party is weak on defense." The No. 2 House Democrat, a moderate who supported U.S. involvement in Iraq, said he believes Democrats lost the “national election because of national security” and because of a “lack of confidence of the American public.” He added that many voters had doubts that Kerry and the Democrats were committed to defeating terrorism. Hoyer, of course, is right. But, as Sen. Lieberman is finding out, the Democratic faithful are not buying Hoyer's line. And apparently neither is one of the members of Hoyer's own group, the one-time deputy of the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (CA). She has co-sponsored legislation with Rep. John Conyers (MI), ranking member on the Judiciary committee, calling for the termination of the NSA's terrorist surveillance program -- a program Gen. Hayden says "has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States." Tauscher calls the Bush administration's actions "despicable" and is "deeply disturbed" by it all. Meanwhile, her ally spends his days pushing for the impeachment of the president and accusing the White House of "defrauding" the nation into war. That stone is getting bigger by the day. * Sisyphus: a legendary king of Corinth condemned eternally to repeat the cycle of rolling a heavy rock up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again as it nears the top weeklystandard.com democraticwhip.house.gov courant.com house.gov weeklystandard.com conyersblog.us

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