A COLD DAY IN THE REPUBLIC:

Editorial: War resolution / Postpone it until after election (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sep 27, 2002)

The only way Congress can do its job on this issue is by delaying passage of the resolution on Iraq until after the fall election. Both Democrats and Republicans should be free of campaign heat to ask the hard questions they must ask before the United States sends its young people into a deadly conflict.

The deranged notion here is apparently that politicians should be free of the pressure that their constituents only get a chance to apply at election time so that they (the pols) can oppose what even the Star Tribune obviously feels is the popular will to war. Why not just do away with elections altogether so that government officials never feel the "heat"? Posted by Orrin Judd at September 27, 2002 7:13 PM