Democrats Take Over Part of Bush's Duties
By Dana Milbank
Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page A06
It was a banner week for Democratic fratricide.
With their main opponent, President Bush, away in Asia and Australia last week, prominent Democrats took over part of his duties by becoming their own worst enemies. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said the Democratic presidential candidates -- such as fellow Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.) -- who voted to authorize force in Iraq but now oppose the Iraq spending package lack "a coherent policy."
Also last week, it was reported that former Clinton Cabinet secretary Andrew M. Cuomo, in an essay appearing in a new book, said his fellow partisans appear "bloodless, soulless and clueless" to voters and "fumbled" their response to terrorism. Not to be outdone -- and he seldom is -- Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) is publishing a book describing the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates as "streetwalkers in skimpy halters and hot pants plying their age-old trade for the fat wallets on K Street."
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