[...] Sen. Joe Lieberman, sounding like Droopy weeping as he emerged from anesthesia, worried that Bush's involvement in the Harken case cast a cloud over his moral authority to do something about the economy. It's one thing to make it sound as if Bush were running Harken last week, like a hobby farm, when his Harken involvement dates back to the days when Michael Jackson was still recognizably human.[...]

If the Dems run this campaign on the corporate scandal issue, it's not just an admission they've nothing else to offer. It's proof that old-school eat-the-rich philosophy still drives the heart of the party, that CEO malfeasance bothers them more than the war we happen to be fighting.

Will they hammer Bush for the State Department's Saudi-coddling? No. Will they demand stricter airport security, even if it means profiling young, sweaty Arab men with one-way tickets and no luggage? Heavens no. Will they push the administration to throw more support to the discontented Iranian street?

No. They're going to throw everything into this Bush-Harken-Enron pot, and then sit there with their jaws on the floor when the Iraqi war starts, and "corporate scandals" poll behind "The Baywatch Reunion Movie" as a subject people care about.[...]