Circling the wagons
E.J. Dionne concludes in this morning's Post:
"The political stakes for the commission were made clear when Mitch McConnell took the Senate floor to express his fear that 'the commission has become a political casualty of the electoral hunting season.' Liberal interest groups, he said, had 'exploited this commission for political gain.'
"The Kentucky Republican is a tough, shrewd partisan and his attack signaled GOP fears: The very questions that the Bush administration did not want asked about its stewardship on the terror issue before Sept. 11 are now plainly before the public.
"The degree to which Republicans are worried over what the commission will conclude can be measured with some precision. The more Republicans pick up McConnell's line of attack, the more certain you can be that the administration has something to worry about."
"The political stakes for the commission were made clear when Mitch McConnell took the Senate floor to express his fear that 'the commission has become a political casualty of the electoral hunting season.' Liberal interest groups, he said, had 'exploited this commission for political gain.'
"The Kentucky Republican is a tough, shrewd partisan and his attack signaled GOP fears: The very questions that the Bush administration did not want asked about its stewardship on the terror issue before Sept. 11 are now plainly before the public.
"The degree to which Republicans are worried over what the commission will conclude can be measured with some precision. The more Republicans pick up McConnell's line of attack, the more certain you can be that the administration has something to worry about."
posted by John at 9:37 AM
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