when I read Helen Dewar’s WaPo story on the Daschle-Thune race, but Southern Appeal caught it: “But Democrats vividly remember the political fallout from the 2002 debate over legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, when Democrats held up final action in an attempt to force stronger employee protections. During that year’s campaign, Republicans defeated Sen. Max Cleland (Ga.), who lost three limbs during the Vietnam War, with the help of ads questioning Cleland’s patriotism because of his vote with fellow Democrats to hold up passage of the homeland security bill” (emphasis added). If Dewar is unable to see that this claim is untrue, couldn’t she at least see that one of the two parties controverts it?