I've been troubled by a suspicion that some influential liberal Jewish Democrats, once the white "soul" of the Party, would criticize Bush but would not, figuratively, "stick the knife" in him if given the chance, because Bush's warmongering in the Middle East serves their perceived interests of Israel.
Today, the New York Times, our liberal Jewish voice, justified my fears.
George Bush has been caught in a despicable lie. Bush's negligence contributed, directly, to the deaths of 1,500 people, many of them Black. A preventable disaster of the magnitude of 9/11.
I challenge any of you to go to the Times' website today and be informed of this fact. The story is the lead headline in even right-wing newspapers in Bush's home state of Texas- they don't think it can be buried. But, the NYT does.
If you manage to scroll and find the Times story on the tapes, you'll eventually find mention of the controversy at the end of the story, framed as partisan "gotcha":
Democrats on Capitol Hill saw the transcripts as offering a new opportunity to criticize the president's handling of the disaster, and they took it.