Here we go again
The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
08/14/06
Dick Cheney was certainly farsighted when he declared Wednesday that Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman would comfort 'Al Qaeda types.' Voila! Only a day later, Al Qaeda was revealed as plotting to bring down 10 planes! I thought that was a nice parody line -- until I picked up yesterday's Wall Street Journal. There, editorial page writer Daniel Henninger, in a column headed, 'Democrats Knifed Lieberman on Eve of Airliner Plot,' goes beyond parody. Henninger writes, '[G]etting on a U.S. airliner, who would you rather have in the Senate formulating policy towards this threat -- Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman?' We will face this story line between now and the November election, and beyond: As the terror threat rises, you can't trust critics of the Bush administration to keep America safe...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11852
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Robert Kuttner
08/14/06
Dick Cheney was certainly farsighted when he declared Wednesday that Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman would comfort 'Al Qaeda types.' Voila! Only a day later, Al Qaeda was revealed as plotting to bring down 10 planes! I thought that was a nice parody line -- until I picked up yesterday's Wall Street Journal. There, editorial page writer Daniel Henninger, in a column headed, 'Democrats Knifed Lieberman on Eve of Airliner Plot,' goes beyond parody. Henninger writes, '[G]etting on a U.S. airliner, who would you rather have in the Senate formulating policy towards this threat -- Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman?' We will face this story line between now and the November election, and beyond: As the terror threat rises, you can't trust critics of the Bush administration to keep America safe...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11852
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 15. Aug, 16:02
