Democrats have wasted no time blaming Bush for the DPRK (North Korea) nuclear test. Nancy Pelosi is pointing fingers, even though she has been a steadfast opponent of missile defense funding. She's not alone, according to Tom Curry of MSNBC:
In New Jersey, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez -- in a tight race with Republican Tom Kean Jr. -- issued a statement saying that the Korean nuclear test "illustrates just how much the Bush administration's incompetence has endangered our nation."
Charge that Bush ignored Korea
"We invaded Iraq, the country that didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and ignored Iran and North Korea, the two that did," Menendez said.A potential 2008 Democratic presidential contender, Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin issued a statement denouncing Bush for using the vehicle of six-nation talks involving China and Japan to try to persuade North Korea to forego its nuclear weapons ambitions.
Sunday's nuclear test, Feingold said, showed "the weakness of the Six Party approach as well as the danger of this Administration's hands-off approach to North Korea."
He added, "the stakes are too high to rely on others to address the North Korean crisis."
Read it all at the link above.
Democrats count on the electorate either being stupid or inattentive. What was their big complaint about Iraq? "Not enough consultation with our allies," they whined, even though Bush's "Coalition of the Willing" was the third-largest war alliance of nations in human history (after the Gulf War and WWII). Now on Korea - and Iraq - where we are engaging in multilateral diplomacy through the UN and our European allies, they complain we should be "going it alone," that we are "outsourcing" diplomacy. Naturally, they forget that Clinton's "direct talks" with the Norks led us to the pitable situation which exists today.
To take these people seriously, you have to be practically brain-dead.
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I wrote about Democrats' wh... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Gary Gross | October 10, 2006 4:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wrote about Democrats' whining here, here and here.
You don't think that they're making all this noise so that people will ignore their terrible track record on North Korea, do you???
1. Posted by Gary Gross | October 10, 2006 4:39 AM |
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Posted on October 10, 2006 04:39
2. Posted by Jim Addison | October 10, 2006 4:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gosh, Gary, you'd think they would be parading Jimmy Carter about on their shoulders with a brass band after he resolved the North Korean nuclear question and brought lasting peace to the Middle East, wouldn't you?
I mean, no one still holds it against him that he let our military deteriorate to the point that the independent British military review "Jane's" rated the USSR as the greatest power in the world for the first time ever, or that he lost Iran to Islamofascists and let our diplomatic hostages be held illegally for 444 days, do they?
People can be so cruel.
2. Posted by Jim Addison | October 10, 2006 4:57 AM |
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Posted on October 10, 2006 04:57
3. Posted by drjohn | October 10, 2006 1:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I guess the convenient part of being in the minority is blaming Bush for everything.
Act alone, bad.
Act with the UN, bad.
A better idea?
Damn, not one of those mealy-mouthed Democratic decerebrates has offered one.
3. Posted by drjohn | October 10, 2006 1:43 PM |
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Posted on October 10, 2006 13:43
4. Posted by Henry | October 10, 2006 4:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A nuclear NoKo?
How about we lay blame where it belongs?
on Kim Jong Ill
4. Posted by Henry | October 10, 2006 4:12 PM |
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Posted on October 10, 2006 16:12