MUST BE MADE OF BRASS DEPARTMENT: The Chicago Tribune reports today that Clinton foreign policy team members Sandy Berger, Madeleine Albright and William Perry gathered on Capitol Hill to blast the Bush administration's handling of North Korea. As the former National Security Advisor and close Clinton confidant, Berger more than anyone bears responsibility for the current mess ( excepting the North Koreans and Clinton himself) because the 1994 nuclear deal brokered by Jimmy Carter was Berger's baby. Since North Korean cheating on the arms deal was immediate and was reported openly in the Washington Post in the late 1990's and was deliberately ignored by the Clinton administration as a matter of policy why should anyone in the Bush administration listen to this irresponsible entourage ?

Perhaps next Daschle can trot out Warren Christopher to tell us what to do when a horrific genocide breaks out in a small African country.  ¶ 11:14 AM