To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (373528 ) 3/18/2003 3:27:48 PM From: Thomas A Watson Respond to of 769670 This story may have legs. Is this the end of dashole??? Racicot Blasts Daschle's Miserable Failure Republicans are for a change fighting back at obstructionist Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who didn't fret over Bill Clinton's wag-the-dog wars but claims "this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war." But it's Little Tommy who's the miserable failure, according to Republican National Chairman Marc Racicot, who denounced the South Dakota leftist's "divisive and brazen political posturing." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer today noted the hypocrisy of Daschle, who said in September, after President Bush pointed out that Democrats were putting politics ahead of national security, that "we ought not politicize this war." And get this: Daschle raised no objections Monday in a meeting at the White House with other lawmakers shortly before the president's address. "He said nothing," Fleischer said. That's because he's too cowardly to attack the president unless he's surrounded by the party's hard core. Here's what he said to the Democrat-owned drones in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: "I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." Like other globalists, he wants "permission" from the thugs at the U.N. Never mind all the lives Bill Clinton sacrificed in the Balkans and Iraq. Block out that picture of those vicious Somalians desecrating the bodies of American soldiers. Racicot observed that "it is disheartening and shameful for Senator Daschle, who has previously advocated and authorized the use of force in Iraq, to now blame America first." newsmax.com