Daschle's a little bitch

Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle - who bitterly accused President Bush of failing "miserably" on Iraq just before the war - has done a total flip-flop and now says Bush deserves "great credit" as war leader.

"In 21 days, we eliminated somebody [Saddam Hussein] who for 20 years has repressed and tortured his own people and posed a serious security risk," Daschle added in a conference call with reporters in his home state of South Dakota.

Daschle's about-face comes as he's gearing up for his 2004 Senate re-election bid in a Bush-loving state where polls show him a few points behind a potential GOP challenger, ex-Rep. John Thune.

Sources tell The Post Daschle consultants recently conducted focus groups of rural South Dakota voters and tested their reaction to a video clip of Daschle attacking Bush on the eve of the war and all but blaming him for any deaths.

Well, good thing Daschle is doing this then, because the one thing we need in an opposition party sure isn't opposition to the president. And of course this just shows the effectiveness of the Republican propaganda machine.

Article here. Via Hesiod.

In unrelated Raznor's Rants news, in honor of Ampersand's not so subtle request for some extended analysis here when he added me to his blogroll, I was going to write a piece, either going into issues of domestic violence that has been the subject for a few discussions at Amp's page, or a continuation on an earlier post arguing against the logical validity of pro-life arguments. But not today. Today will be spent in recovery from Renn Fayre, even as Renn Fayre continues. I'm heading to the cafe area to relax probably in a bit. Maybe I'll add a post about some of the cool stuff that happened here over the weekend, if I get a few e-mail requests for it (hint hint).

Anyway, have fun.