God's Gift to Republicans

DNC chief Terry McAuliffe is easily the most classless person in politics. He will take any opportunity, no matter how cheap a shot, to try and run down the GOP. I personally believes he deserves a great deal of credit for the Dem electoral disasters since 2000. Here's what he had to say today in a special statement commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack (courtesy of the Washington Times):

The remembrance of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor took on partisan political spin Tuesday with a Democrat leader using it to attack House Republicans.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a special Pearl Harbor Day statement, said national unity 63 years ago enabled Americans to go forward and defeat the country's enemies, but the same kind of unity needed now was being undermined by Republican disagreements over provisions of the yet-to-be-voted on intelligence reform bill.

"While we as a nation are united in this fight, there are clearly deep divisions within the Republican Party, divisions that are impeding our fight against terrorism," he said.

"Moving forward, it is my sincere hope that the Republicans running Washington will stop playing their political games and start fighting for the American people, just as our honored veterans did 63 years ago."

Intelligence reform arising from the Sept. 11. 2001, terror attacks on New York and Washington, was stalled in the House earlier this month over concern by some GOP leaders that provisions detailing intelligence authority could hamper military units getting real-time tactical information from spy satellites and aircraft.

New language appears to have assuaged those concerns and passage of intelligence reform could come this week.