White House defends speech - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:
"This was not a speech that was designed to single out anybody for partisan reasons, but gave the president's honest reflections and reactions to what has happened since September 11, 2001," Mr. Snow said. "The president decided that yesterday wasn't a day for partisanship."
...put aside our differences.
Democrats, in a campaign to win control of Congress from the president's Republican Party, charged that Mr. Bush was using a national day of mourning for partisan gain. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said today that Mr. Bush was "more consumed by staying the course in Iraq and playing election-year politics."...
House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, shot back at Democrats: "I wonder if they're more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people," he said at a news conference. "They certainly don't want to take the terrorists on and defeat them."
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On Monday, dozens of lawmakers from both parties put aside the campaigning and joined on the steps of the Capitol to remember the attacks. Together they sang "God Bless America" as they had five years ago.
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