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Back Seat Drivers

Posted by Bryan

From The Wall Street Journal, Best of the Web, vebatim:

On CNN's "Late Edition," yesterday, Wolf Blitzer highlighted a rare moment of agreement between Karl Rove and Sen. Chuck Schumer:

Rove: The United States faces a ruthless enemy. And we need a commander in chief and a Congress who understand the nature of the threat and the gravity of the moment America finds itself in. President Bush and the Republican Party do. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Democrats.


Blitzer: Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, the president's top political adviser, speaking out earlier in the week. . . . "Unfortunately," Karl Rove says, "the same cannot be said for many Democrats" in this war on terrorism. I suspect he's referring in part to you.

Schumer: Well, who knows--but, you know, it's--no one is going to take a back seat to Democrats on fighting a tough war on terror. But what Karl Rove is doing is trying to divert attention.

Actually, if anything, Schumer goes even further than Rove did. Rove just said many Democrats take a back seat to Republicans. According to Schumer, no one is going to take a back seat to Democrats! Hey Michael Moore, Ward Churchill, Cindy Sheehan--move over! There's plenty of room back here for all of us!

priceless!