Thread: Shocking Rhetoric

June 2, 2004 | 3:00 p.m.

A Washington Times article ("Bush Foes Extend Bounds of Rhetoric") reports on the unprecedented invective being heaped on President Bush. The Times says that many feel it's reached "a new and dangerous level" when a former vice president says that the current president is guilty of "war crimes" and has set up an "American gulag."

"Never before in time of war, when soldiers are dying, has this kind of vocal criticism by party leaders been directed at an administration," maverick Democrat Zell Miller, the senator from Georgia, is quoted saying.

What makes this doubly frustrating is that Bush can't just come out and toot his own horn on his major success. As Noemie Emery has noted in the Weekly Standard: "Bush dare not dwell on his biggest success--the fact that there have been no new attacks on American soil--for fear that a big one may hit us tomorrow.”

It is such a shame dear old george can't defend himself, like maybe he should say, "There has been no major attacks on U.S. soil on my watch since that one on 911." Wow he should maybe put it on a bumper sticker.