Gephardt blasts Dean on 'compassion'

Shouldn't he be attacking Bush?

In a prelude to a potentially contentious debate among Democratic presidential contenders, Dick Gephardt accused rival Howard Dean on Sunday of governing Vermont "without compassion" by resorting to cuts in services for the poor and disabled to try to balance his state's budget.

But Dean countered that "Gephardt has delivered empty rhetoric" during his 26 years as a congressman from Missouri while "as a governor, I worked hard to make the tough choices to deliver results."

Dem debate today on MSNBC.