Dems seek new tough-guy image
By Alexander Bolton
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are working behind the scenes to bolster their party's national-security credentials, planning to pose a stronger challenge in a policy area that Republicans have dominated in recent years.
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Democrats realize that, if they are to be more competitive at the polls in 2006 and 2008, they will have to be more credible in voters' eyes on security issues. That is the political context for the ramping-up of Democratic activity, led by Reid and Pelosi, in the traditionally GOP-dominated policy area.
Reid and Pelosi's national-security staffs are in touch with each other several times a week. Reid and Pelosi aides describe it as "a joint operation."
Reid's staff will finish in the next few days a report on the leader's March trip to the Middle East, which included a tour of Iraq, according to Democratic aides. Reid's report is expected to charge that the Bush administration's defense policy has overstretched the military and, as a result, eroded its level of readiness. Senior Democratic aides said Reid spent a lot of time studying national-security issues to prepare for the trip. Pelosi also traveled to Iraq during the March recess.
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This is the reason I supported and still support Wes Clark. We knew they were going to play the security game and they did.