There is no record of Senator Daschle's ever having accused Al Gore of any connection with the violence committed by the Unabomber that he helped "energize." Even though it is known that the main suspect in the Beltway sniper shootings was a member of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, that fact has likewise been passed over in silence by much of the liberal media. But would they -- or Senator Daschle -- have remained silent if the sniper suspect had been a member of the National Rifle Association or the Christian Coalition?
Rush Limbaugh is undoubtedly the most effective of the talk show hosts when it comes to puncturing the pretensions of the liberals. If unsubstantiated smears like those of Senator Daschle cannot silence him, the next best thing, from liberals' viewpoint, is to discredit him as somehow being behind various threats and acts of violence -- through guilt by accusation.
Meanwhile, even Rush Limbaugh's most telling barbs against the liberals do not match the shameless smears indulged in by Democrats like Tom Daschle and their echoes in the liberal media.
Senator Daschle complains that he has been accused of being an obstructionist. But Republicans have been accused of much worst -- by Daschle and his fellow Democrats. According to them, Republicans want to destroy the livelihoods of the elderly who depend on Social Security, ruin the environment, destroy the public schools, harm the poor, and turn back the clock to a time when blacks did not have civil rights.
It is not known how many threats Republicans have received in response to this litany of political crimes. But the accusations are a lot worse than being accused of being an obstructionist.
Stripped of control of every branch of the federal government, the Democrats have nothing left to offer anyone before the next election, except accusations and scare tactics. Back in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt said: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Today, Democrats like Tom Daschle have nothing to offer but fear itself.