From the Bench
PUBLISHING REPLACES LEGISLATING FOR DEMOCRATS
USA Today reports that all the Democratic Senators with the presidential bug are busy getting their act together…. not, as you would hope ,earning their keep, but rather writing stories that we just cannot do without.
For starters, how about, "An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah’s Personal Notes on the 2002 Campaign."?
Huh? "Amazing Adventure?" How about, "Wha’ Hoppen?", or "Al, Are you Awake?"
Joe and Hadassah are the Liebermans. You remember Joe. He’s the fellow who whined his way through the 2000 campaign trying, with the rest of the country, to figure out just where Al was trying to go. Come to think about it, maybe it WAS an amazing adventure.
Al and Tipper are on the road again, book touring, promoting families. Since all of us love families, and most of us have one, at least it should do no harm.
Senator John Kerry looks like a front runner right now, despite the media saying Gore is leading. The same media who handicapped the recent elections. Nuff said.
The Massachusetts Democrat is framing himself as a Viet Nam War hero, which he was. Maybe it will work better for him than it did for Max Cleland.
Is there no end to this virus? Apparently not. Tom Daschle, who, after the election, you would expect to be pulling a Newt Gingrich and looking for a hiding place, is doing what to celebrate? You guessed it. He’s writing a book.
Not just any book. Daschle is writing about the events of the 107th congress, wherein he presided over the Senate most of the time. Based on what the Senate accomplished, look for a lot of blank pages.
The book is untitled. I have a suggestion. "Stumblingblock."
There is yet one more. Senator John Edwards, the erstwhile North Carolina trial lawyer and presidential dreamer, is going to tell us his experiences in getting awards from doctors who no longer deliver babies because of people like Edwards, and companies going bankrupt over class-action lawsuits because of people like Edwards.
Suggested titles. "Shakedown." "Blackmail." "Redistribute the Wealth." Or maybe just a bit of honesty, "How I got Rich Socking it to the Rich."
If Senator Edwards can sell the "virtue" of trial lawyers, he DESERVES the nomination. Perhaps he can get the junior senator from New York, and former First Lady, Senator H. R. Clinton, to run with him.
Better not call her his "running mate." The Republican spinmasters would have a field day with that phrase.
To our knowledge, President George W. Bush never wrote a book. He married a librarian. But never wrote a book.
I’m glad. I always had trouble staying in the lines when coloring.