Democrats Demand Retraction From Rove

Guardian.co.UK & AP ^ | 6/23/05 | JIM ABRAMS

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Democrats are demanding that White House adviser Karl Rove immediately retract and apologize for comments that liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to ``prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.''

``The one thing New York has had since Sept. 11 is unity,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. ``To inject politics into this and to defame a large number of people'' is outrageous, he said. ``It's not what New York and America is all about.''

Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that ``liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.'' Conservatives, he said in the speech to the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, ``saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.''

Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for ``moderation and restraint'' after the terrorist attacks.

Schumer said Democrats were drafting a letter asking Rove to retract his remarks. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also called on President Bush to ``immediately repudiate Karl Rove's offensive and outrageous comments.''

Rove also denounced Sen. Dick Durbin's comments comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes. He said the statements have been broadcast throughout the Middle East, putting U.S. troops in greater danger. The Illinois Democrat has since apologized for the remarks.

``No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals,'' Rove said.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The truth hurts.

[marylandrepub1]

HAAA!

[Mr.Atos]

Oh you have GOT to be kidding me!

[Always Right]

Rove attacking Liberals is about as offensive as Dean attacking Conservatives. It's what they do.

[Puppage]

The liberals responded by demanding that airport screeners be federal employees BEFORE they even helped lift a finger to protect America.

THAT'S what the left did in response to 9/11

[DarthVader]

To the Dems - ESAD

[The_Victor]

Say it again Karl, louder!

..."liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."

[gopwinsin04]

They really didn't like that Durbin business, did they?

[b4its2late]

"Why apologize for telling the truth?" That would be my response.

[scott7278]

Schumer said Democrats were drafting a letter asking Rove to retract his remarks. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also called on President Bush to ``immediately repudiate Karl Rove's offensive and outrageous comments.''

They might have been offensive and outrageous (to them), but you don't apologize for the truth.

[Moral Hazard]

That's awfully defensive. He said "liberals" not "Democrats". Do they have a guilty conscience or something?

[Fido969]

Tell Chuckie Schumer to take a leap. It is rare, indeed, that the human genome produces such a piece of unqualified sh*t.

[steel_resolve]

Hey Democrats - retract this. I could never be a US senator - I would get kicked out for punching Nancy Pelosi in the head or giving Harry Reid an atomic wedgie or something...

[Tennessee_Bob]

ESAD is good - but for these folks, ESABATM is more appropriate.

[truthluva]

I have taken the liberty of drafting Rove's apology:

"Sorry you were offended"

[kesg]

Karl Rove is my hero.

[PogySailor]

Good grief. I will be interested to see the WH response. Anything other than "get bent Chuck" would be inappropriate.

[Doc91678]

Schumer has the Chutzpah to say that Rove has injected politics into this fray? Here we go again, the kettle calling the pot black.

What did Pelosi, Durbin, Ried including Schumer say about this war. Rove's remarks were docile compared to what has been said by the left.

[evolved_rage]

I'm surprized Schumer didn't call Rove a Dirty little Nazi, like all the Military that serve George W. Hitler...