The New Bi-Partisanship

Subtle, very subtle.  Democrats Call Rice Liar, Bush Apologist, according to the headline of the AP story.  Explain to me again why the Republican majority should try to work with these Democrats on, well, anything?

I'm sure Power Line will have something to say about the intemperate remarks of Sen. Mark Dayton, (D-Mn):

She repeatedly deceived members of Congress and Americans at large about justifications for the war, said Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.

"I don't like impugning anyone's integrity, but I really don't like being lied to," Dayton said. "Repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally."

Sen. Kennedy (D-Ma) weighs in, both literally and figuratively:

"There was no reason to go to war in Iraq when we did, the way we did and for the false reasons we were given," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

Everyone's favorite former Klansman added:

"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric (my emphasis) that the administration used to scare the American people," Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said.

This may be a case of the pot calling the kettle...er...black.

UPDATE: As I said yesterday Power Line did discuss this, with particular attention to the immoderate Sen. Dayton.

Hindrocket notes that the Republican response:

appears to have been tepid. Why is it, exactly, that Republican Senators refrain from commenting on the irony of an old KKK stalwart hurling false charges at the first black woman ever nominated as Secretary of State? The Democrats have destroyed every notion of comity and protocol, not to mention truthfulness and common sense. So why do the Republicans adhere doggedly to a code of comity that the Democrats abandoned long ago?

I agree, but it is interesting in that many Democratic analysts feel that the Democrats just play politics too nice, like the recently discussed op-ed by Daniel Gerstein.  What I see from them is fairly vicious and largely unfounded.  This difference in perception is difficult to fathom - perhaps their waiting for MSM to call them on it before it sinks in.