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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (15277)	4/16/2004 12:03:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Rightwing Liars Seek To Smear BiPartisan Commission: The theme of the Republican campaign against the 9/11 commission is that, as the Journal charged, Democrats are using it for "partisan purposes." (The New York Post echoed the Journal Wednesday with a front-page editorial headlined "National Disgrace," which decried the partisan "hijacking" of the commission's work -- but saved its toughest words for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who has been reserved in his response to the commission's devastating recent revelations.) The fact is, the bipartisan commission has been remarkably united on its core issues. Republican commissioners have stood with their Democratic counterparts on many of the most fundamental questions and concerns. It was Chairman Thomas Kean, a lifelong Republican and friend of the president's father, who sharply rejected the charges of partisanship and the calls for Gorelick's resignation. It was Commissioner Slade Gorton, a hard-line conservative and former Republican senator, who reminded Ashcroft of the facts about the Gorelick memo. It was Commissioner Fielding, a former Republican White House counsel, who questioned Ashcroft closely about his ignorance of Clinton's order to kill bin Laden. The truth is that conservative critics of the commission aren't concerned about partisanship or conflict of interest. They are voicing the fears of political strategists in the White House. They seek to undermine the commission precisely because it is too bipartisan, too independent -- and too far beyond the reach of Karl Rove. But the commission just keeps on doing its work, and given the scope of what it's finding, the disinformation campaign about it doesn't seem likely to work.