The New York Times noted Dowd’s distancing from Bush came at the same time one of his "premature twin daughters died, he was divorced, and he watched his oldest son prepare for deployment to Iraq." Bartlett latched onto these difficulties in Dowd’s personal life in an effort to undermine his substantive concerns about Bush’s Iraq policy.
Bartlett said Dowd has been on a "long personal journey...in his private life" and that he had become too emotional over the war. CBS host Bob Schieffer interrupted to ask: "Are you suggesting he’s having some kind of personal problems and this is just what has resulted?" Bartlett denied that’s what he was doing, but then returned to his talking point, suggesting Dowd’s views should be evaluated in light of the fact the he was going through "personal turmoil."
This sounds a lot when some right-wing Christo-activists tried to claim that David Kuo was the newest member of the Axis of Evil for criticizing Bush.
Thinkprogress goes on to note...
What is even more disturbing than the treatment of those who criticize the Bush White House is the fact that those who have been criticized most harshly — people like Gen. Eric Shinseki, Richard Clarke, and Paul O’Neill — have in fact been proven to be more right than wrong. Dowd’s case is no different.
With Sens Feingold and Reid responding to Bush's Veto threats with an even more agressive Iraq pull-out bill than the one which has already passed the House and Senate, it's seems that the clock has finaly run out for those in the Bush Administration and it's enablers who have been consistently and repeatedly wrong about this War, from WMDs through the Insurgency, to the ability of Paris Hilton to ride through Baghdad on a bicycle in a bikini despite the rapidly escalating Civil War.
As Bill Maher has suggested, Democrats have finally learn to Ante Up.
Let just see if Bush has learned when to hold 'em or finally fold 'em.
Vyan
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