ANOTHER PROMISE KEPT.(A)

We've heard none of that insulting talk of dragging $100through a trailer park, a la James Carville. Nor has Bush attacked Democrats personally, or twisted their views.

Sadly, the same can't be said for the Democrats. Perhaps eight years of being led by Bill Clinton, the consummate truth-twister, has left lasting scars. Or maybe it's just that the line between personal and politics has been blurred for Democrats.

Bush didn't come to office promising to agree with the Democrats; he promised to change the tone of our national debate. Yet the Democrats don't seem to get it. When you're not on board with them, they get ugly and deceitful.

You need only to look at last week's dust-up over the Kyoto global warming treaty to see what we mean.

Clinton never submitted the 1997 treaty to the Senate for its OK. He knew that senators from both parties would not go along because of the cuts in living standards it would force. In fact, the Senate voted 95-0 against the treaty as written.

So what was the Democratic response when Bush gave the treaty the hook last week?

Here's what Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut had to say: "In the blink of an eye, one protection after another is being torn down without public comment.That has to stop." He went on to call Bush's view out of "tune with the world's thinking."