Bush even huddled with Jeffords, on camera, on the very last day that Republicans managed the Senate. If Bush turns the other cheek anymore, his head will fall off. Bush invited the entire Kennedy clan to the White House to view 13 Days , a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bush asked former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to co-chair his commission to reform Social Security. All this, of course, is not enough for the Left.
Nothing ever is.
Bush, to most Democrats and their supporters, is an extremist who wishes to pave Yosemite and add arsenic to the school lunch program. Bush's pow-wow with Jeffords showed tremendous weakness. It signaled that it's just fine to stomp all over a president who is delighted to reward the offender with an on-camera encounter and let bygones be bygones. On Wednesday, Trent Lott was positively beaming as he handed Tom Daschle the keys to the Senate. Lott looked as if his son had just graduated from high school.