Tony Snow Was Quiet Yesterday but not Sen. Schumer
Tony Snow was very quiet yesterday as
Sen. Charles Schumer continued his bitter attacks against the President,
railing on the Senate floor that:
“The American people
recognize that the commander-in-chief got us into Iraq and it is his
job to get us out of Iraq.”
But Schumer, who
is in charge of electing more Democrats this fall, is no longer facing
a demoralized and discouraged GOP.
The Republicans are
now re-vitalized according to the New York Times which reported that
this morning under the headline, “Rallied by Bush, Skittish G.O.P.
Now Embraces War as Issue.”
Its lead article
says:
“Just a few weeks ago, some Republicans
were openly fretting about the war in Iraq
and its effect on their re-election prospects, with particularly
vulnerable lawmakers worried that its growing unpopularity was becoming
a drag on their campaigns.
“But
there was little sign of such nervousness on Wednesday as Republican
after Republican took to the Senate floor to offer an unambiguous
embrace of the Iraq war and to portray Democrats
as advocates of an overly hasty withdrawal that would have grave consequences
for the security of the United States. Like their counterparts in
the House last week, they accused Democrats of espousing ‘retreat
and defeatism.’”
Snow
Was Not Seen
Tony Snow was not seen yesterday
as it was being reported that the new
White House offensive was being led by Carl Rove and others
from the White House.
The Times
reported that a 74-page briefing book to Congressional offices from
the Pentagon had been distributed “to provide ammunition for what
White House officials say will be a central line of attack against
Democrats from now through the midterm elections: that the withdrawal
being advocated by Democrats would mean thousands of troops would
have died for nothing, would give extremists a launching pad from
which to build an Islamo-fascist empire and would hand the United
States its most humility
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