Daschle Assails Bush Record (washingtonpost.com)

Mostly on the economy. And I think this is the 2002 election strategy, and the way things are going (well, at least no Fortune 500 companies declared bankruptcy today) it's the way to go.

But Daschle also talked about terrorism, and I really think that's a bad idea. Am I 100% behind what he's doing? Not really; I think he's wobbly, and also using the excuse of terrorism to carry out some personal goals. But you don't attack a President's war record while the war is going on. And one of the things he went after Bush on was "unilateralism", and Bush is unassailably right not to go through the UN and NATO, because those organizations can't be trusted. If there's anything that needs to be attacked, it's clearly John Ashcroft's war on the Bill of Rights (except for the Second Amendment) but we wouldn't want to look soft on terror, would we?