Hewitt on Democratic Leadership

Hugh Hewitt accurately lights up the Democratic foreign policy intelligensia:

...it was thus astonishing to watch a replay last night of a press conference earlier in the day given by a gaggle of Democrats, including Senators Daschle, Biden, and Levin, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former National Security advisor Sandy Berger and former Secretary of State Albright. The gang spent most of their time blasting the President for his handling of the North Korean crisis --a crisis birthed in the Framework Agreement of 1994 and nurtured throughout the Clinton Administration right up to Albright's trip to North Korea in the late fall of 2000. The West Coast doesn't have a shred of defense against North Korean missiles in part because of Levin's long war against missile defense, and the Homeland Security Department is a week old, because Daschle held it hostage for union interests all last fall and late summer. Joe Biden is mocked for his incoherence and especially his "mano-a-mano" posturing prior to the Afghan rout last year, and Sandy Berger's only response to 9/11 has been to leak that he gave a paper to Condi Rice that warned Osama was a problem. In short, a bigger group of foreign policy losers would be hard to assemble if you had a month. Yes, they are all powerful or were powerful, and all have the "Hon." permanently before their names. But their attack on the President on what might have been the literal eve of war is repugnant and is so outside the traditions of the United States political system that it is impossible to find a parallel.

I think Hewitt's comments on the Clinton-era foreign policy leadership are right on. While in power they sought to avoid challenges and ignore dangers, because it was politically expedient to do so. Now that they’re out of power they seek to name call, obstruct, and blame those who are left to clean up after them. Even during a time of war. Despicable. As Peggy Noonan wrote a few weeks ago, the party can no longer be taken seriously in matters of national defense.