Knight Ridder Newspapers, 6/4/06
Anti-war
and anti-Bush fervor is growing among rank and file Democrats,
threatening to pull the party to the left and creating a rift between
increasingly belligerent activists and the party’s leaders in
Washington.
Many outside-the-Beltway Democrats want the party to turn forcefully
against the war in Iraq and to investigate, censure or even impeach
President Bush should the party win control of Congress this fall.
Yet party leaders such as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York
have maintained support for the war while criticizing the way Bush
handled it, and have shied away from talk of using power to go to after
him. [read more]