Well, most of us haven't heard anything from Sen. Daniel Inouye since the days of the Senate Watergate Committee, but now someone has dusted him off, told him to wrap himself in his combat experience and his Medal of Honor, and attack President Bush.
It's beneath his dignity as a senator, a soldier and even his own record as a screed-less politico.
"As a Veteran of World War II, I know what it’s like to fight a war and put your life on the line every day. I also know what it takes to win a war, and I know that politics and an attack machine like the President’s plays no part in it.
"The Republican attack ad is a shameful and disgusting attempt to distract the American people from the problems in Iraq. It may improve the President’s political fortunes, but the American people and our troops will pay the price. I hope that President Bush realizes how shameful it is to play politics when what we really need is leadership, and that he will direct his Party to take down this ad immediately."
Call an waaaambulance, Danny.
The GOP ad is nothing more than the hoisting the leftist dems on their own petard. They want to cut and run, bug out, recreate the shameful last days of Vietnam and continue their cowardly legacy, so left them dangle at the ends of their own craven, pathetic sentences. 
This is coming to be known as the "Murtha Gambit"... the dem lefties trot out some dinosaur late in a lackluster career of feeding at the government trough, someone who has no presidential aspirations, to shamelessly huckster their combat experience just like John F. Kerry (apparently a Vietnam veteran) and surrender advocate.
On the other hand, it is yet another clear-cut example that the democrat party is in its death throes.
Good.
---LA city council members are calling for the diversities not to go nuts as they seem to do with some frequency until the Koreans start shooting them. This time it's a call for calm (or a threat?)because The Big Crip if gonna get the needle on the 13th.
Well, let 'em go ahead; issue additional ammo to SWAT, close major exits out of South Central and make Norman Mailer, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mike Farrell, Bianca Jagger and their ilk walk point.
Gene McCarthy died today. A chronic pol like Harold Stassen and Adlai Stevenson he seemed to think it was his job to run for president.... kinda like a Ralph Nader but without the terminal stupidity.
I recall in my political youth friends arguing from that it was "unfair" for Bobby Kennedy to put a blade in Gene's back after McCarthy had carried the anti-war mantle 'til RFK was sure all the heavy lifting was done.
They actually thought he had a chance... even thought Bobby had a chance.
After The '68 Convention, when Triple H... Hubert H. Humphrey... got the nod from the party machine, McCarthy was relegated to the trivia bin of politics along with his cadre of "Clean for Gene" dufuses who were gonna change the world. Many of them should be retiring from their Vietnam draft-deferred teaching jobs over the next few years.
In addition to the 1968 election, McCarthy ran unsuccessfully in 1972, 1976 and 1988, and 1992.
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, McCarthy said the United States was partly to blame for ignoring the plight of Palestinians. ``You let a thing like that fester for 45 years, you have to expect something like this to happen,'' he said in an interview at the time. ``No one at the White House has shown any concern for the Palestinians.''
Yawn. Gene McCarthy... always on the wrong side of history. R.I.P.
More importantly, Richard Pryor is gone.
He succumbed to a heart attack after living with MS for 20 years and surviving a heart attack and by-pass several years ago... and he would not doubt agree, to a lifestyle of drugs and alcohol and depression that at one point resulted in him on fire, running down the street.
Only Pryor could turn that event into a very funny comedy bit. And he did.
His punchlines and observations were priceless and mostly unprintable.
His "DEAD Honky!" to Chevy Chase the first year of Saturday Night Live is still funnier than anything they've done on that waste of an hour for 20 years.
"Yeah, we bad." to Gene Wilder was right up there too.
Without Pryor there would be no Chris Rock.
In his CD routine "My Funeral." Pryor says, "I want to be cremated. Just sprinkle my ashes in about two pounds of cocaine. Snort me up!"
We're all dying.... just some sooner than others.
'Night Richard.
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