Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Rove rips Dem's DeLay pitch

Washington Times:

The White House yesterday stepped up its defense of embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, dispatching political strategist Karl Rove to deride Democratic attacks as "drivel."
"They're just desperate," Mr. Rove said of Democrats on CNN. "They're not offering ideas in the debate, they're not being constructive, and so some of their members are taking potshots at Tom DeLay."
The broadside came in response to Republican complaints that President Bush has been too tepid in his defense of Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who is being accused by Democrats and the press of ethical lapses.

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"This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad, with a picture of Tom Delay, saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not?' "Mr. Dean said.
Yesterday, Mr. Rove returned fire.
"I'm sorry that the Democratic Party has been reduced to this kind of drivel," he said. "If you don't have ideas, if you're not articulating a vision for America, if you're doing nothing but obstructing as Dean and others in his party seem to be intent upon doing, I guess you're stuck doing this kind of thing."
Meanwhile, the DeLay campaign has counterattacked against the congressman's critics in a letter mailed to his supporters.
"Democrats have made clear that their only agenda is the politics of personal destruction, and the criminalization of politics," the DeLay campaign wrote in a letter obtained yesterday by the Associated Press.
Along with a point-by-point rebuttal of each accusation against Mr. DeLay, the AP reported, the letter summarizes the Texan's defense in simple terms: "Tom DeLay does not stand accused of any violation of any law or rule in any forum and has never been found to have violated any law or rule by anyone."

Democrats practicing the politics of personal destruction--for themit is not practice, it is their life.