The rise and fall of the Bush conspiracy trio

Today's Washington Times has an excellent op-ed that summarizes the scurrilous indictments by Senators Daschle and Clinton and Congressman Gephardt, who each accused President Bush of knowing in advance that American would suffer a severe terrorist blow last September.

The accusations were not merely false, they magnified the worst tendencies of the Democrat leadership to "go partisan" when the chips are down. But they had to beat a miserably humiliating retreat when absolutely everyone rightfully refused to believe them. Just this past weekend,

Under a heartless grilling from "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, Mr. Daschle was reduced to explaining that he had been misinformed about the facts: "Well, we were told on that particular morning that the president had received [the] facts." The word "told" was Mr. Daschle's way of saying he saw it in the morning papers and TV. In fact, Mr. Russert pointed out and the pained senator admitted, as an ex-officio member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Daschle himself had had access in August to the same information provided the president.
Hillary's defense was, essentially: I was just reading the morning tabloid on the floor of the Senate, on behalf of my millions of constituents. I wasn't suggesting anything, Heaven forfend.

American deserves better. It's time for these three clowns to deliver it.