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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (259657)	5/30/2002 12:38:34 PM
From: Srexley	Respond to of 769667

"The Dems are so frustrated by Bush's popularity...." Good article on the PERSONAL ATTACK tactics of the dems. Why does your party attack our President during a WAR? Losers. story.news.yahoo.com DEMS BUSHWHACKED BY ‘WHAT DID BUSH KNOW' ATTACK Thu May 30, 3:51 AM ET By DEBORAH ORIN A LOT of Democrats are suddenly sounding very sorry they attacked President Bush (news - web sites) on what he knew about 9/11 before it happened - and the polls show why. Less than two weeks after Democrats from Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt went after Bush, it seems clear the president has won this round. Bush's job-approval rating is still up in the stratosphere - 74 percent in a new Harris Poll - and terrorism again tops the national agenda (the top concern for 30 percent of Americans vs. 17 percent for the economy). "In the short term, it backfired - the Democrats probably helped boost Bush's numbers by pushing the agenda back to terrorism, which is his strength, instead of issues like Social Security (news - web sites)," says GOP pollster John McLaughlin. "There's a window in May-June when people can focus on politics before summer - and now the Democrats have blown the chance to have that time focus on their domestic agenda." Democratic strategists privately say their party's leaders showed their frustration at the president's popularity when they jumped on the revelation that Bush got a vague warning about al Qaeda and hijackings last August. Worst of all, they say, was House Democratic leader (and wannabe presidential contender) Dick Gephardt's use of Watergate rhetoric about "what the president, what the White House knew . . . [and] when they knew it." "The public doesn't want to go on a witch hunt over this. They like the job Bush is doing and don't want to change their view of him. It was silly to try to personalize this against him," says a Democratic strategist. "It's like FDR and Pearl Harbor - people didn't blame him for the Japanese attack. They judged him, as they judge Bush or any president, by what he did afterward." No wonder Democrats quickly shifted their fire toward the FBI (news - web sites) (whose rating in polls is lower than Bush's) - and yesterday FBI chief Robert Mueller blunted that, too, by accepting blame and praising whistle-blower Coleen Rowley for questioning the agency's anti-terror efforts. The Dems are so frustrated by Bush's popularity that they seem to have forgotten the lesson that they, above all, should have learned from Bill Clinton's success at surviving GOP attacks over Sexgate, says GOP strategist Rich Galen. "Treating the president badly, and, in the public's mind, unfairly doesn't work. But I'm thrilled they're doing it - every day that goes by when they try is another day when they can't get traction on Medicare," he said. In fact, Dem pollster Mark Mellman claims the proof that Democrats are acting on principle in asking "what did Bush know" is precisely that it's dumb politics for them for this fall's congressional election. "From a political point of view, does it make sense to fight an election about terrorism? No," Mellman says. "It's not politics."

To: Skywatcher who wrote (259657)	5/30/2002 2:30:39 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

Mueller's own words "The jury's still out" "I can't say for sure" Doesn't sound like a concession. Coulda, shoulda, woulda,....we'd all fall short. I got a feeling the FBI finds out a ton of stuff "illegally" and then tries to figure out how to fashion a case that will withstand the scrutiny of the courts, the ACLU, and the Democrats;) Political correctness. Thus we have Richard Jewell failure, Wen Ho Lee failure, Jannsen failure, and now Moussaoui failure. The IRS doesn't catch 10% of the cheaters. Who's complaining?....in writing...... to the IRS.