Daschle eats his words, and then some

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 31 14:48:00 PST 2003


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Ah yes, replies without substance are quite useful in discussion.
>But then that's typical of these debates on Democrats since actually
>discussing the substance of how Congress works is just so boring and
>irrelevant to discussing power.

Ok, let's discuss how Congress works. Some Congressional Dems offer tepid criticisms of the thrust toward war. Then the war starts and all agree the time for debate is over - as if the matter hadn't become more urgent when potential turned into actual. An excellent mechanism!

Doug



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