In a March 15 entry on his ABC News weblog, Down and Dirty, ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper blasted “Awe-Inspiring, Soul-on-firing Democrats” for distancing themselves from Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-WI) resolution to censure President Bush over his warrantless domestic wiretapping program. Citing excerpts from a March 15 Washington Post column by Dana Milbank, which featured quotes from several Democratic senators who were asked to comment on Feingold's proposal, Tapper asked: “Is this what a majority party looks like to you?”

Tapper's ABC News online bio describes him as “an ABC News correspondent based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau,” not as a political commentator.

From Tapper's March 15 blog entry:

The Democrats!!! Those Awe-Inspiring, Soul-on-firing Democrats!!! With their courageous lion's faces and their pants held up by braces and their empty black briefcases!!! THE DEMOCRATS!!!

The inability of the opposition party to capitalize on one of the most horrible years President George W. Bush has even known is nothing short of remarkable.

Is this what a majority party looks like to you? The Washington Post's Dana Milbank paints a vivid sketch of Democratic Senators wanting to avoid answering questions about Sen. Russ Feingold's censure proposal:

“I haven't read it,” demurred Barack Obama (Ill.).

“I just don't have enough information,” protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). “I really can't right now,” John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters -- an excuse that fell apart when Kerry was forced into an awkward wait as Capitol Police stopped an aide at the magnetometer.

Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).

“Ask her after lunch,” offered Clinton's spokesman, Philippe Reines. But Clinton, with most of her colleagues, fled the lunch out a back door as if escaping a fire.

[Sen. Charles E.] Schumer [D-NY] had no comment (someone please check the temperature in Hades). Feingold said he didn't understand why his fellow Dems were “coweing.”

More later on an ABC News poll that shows that while very skepical of the war in Iraq more Americans think the Democrats lack a clear plan to win the war than think Bush does.