Lincoln Chaffee wrote a book....looks like an interesting, topical read.

[PassingFair]

Excerpt:
"The top Democrats were at their weakest when trying to show how tough they were," writes Chafee. "They were afraid that Republicans would label them soft in the post-September 11 world, and when they acted in political self-interest, they helped the president send thousands of Americans and uncounted innocent Iraqis to their doom.

"Instead of talking tough or meekly raising one's hand to support the tough talk, it is far more muscular, I think, to find out what is really happening in the world and have a debate about what we really need to accomplish," writes Chafee. "That is the hard work of governing, but it was swept aside once the fear, the war rhetoric and the political conniving took over."

Chafee writes of his surprise at "how quickly key Democrats crumbled." Democratic senators, Chafee writes, "went down to the meetings at the White House and the Pentagon and came back to the chamber ready to salute. With wrinkled brows they gravely intoned that Saddam Hussein must be stopped. Stopped from what? They had no conviction or evidence of their own. They were just parroting the administration's nonsense. They knew it could go terribly wrong; they also knew it could go terribly right. Which did they fear more?"

[LordJFT]

1. link?

[PassingFair]

2. This is better than my original source. I WILL be getting this book!

http://www.projo.com/news/content/LInc_Chafee_01-27-08_PD8NPTK_v103.279fc7c.html

[Joyce78]

3. Thank you for sharing.

[malaise]

4. Sadly he is correct

and some of them still behave this way.

[Toots]

5. I notice he didn't receive any Anthrax in the mail....

Top Democrats and Major Media received weapons grade Anthrax in the mail and the entire world knows it wasn't from any terrorist group but from Republican operatives. Is it any wonder that some become timid after such a blatant death threat. Mafia cuts a horses head off and puts it into your bed, The Bush* Cabal isn't quite as subtle. They use US Government WMDS against their political enemies..

[PassingFair]

6. Didn't change Leahy's bravery quotient.

Daschle could probably have been scared
by a poopy diaper.

[cali]

7. Pat Leahy didn't become more timid

however, and he's said flat out that he thinks the bush administration knows a lot more about the anthrax attack than they'll ever admit.