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.

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FROM THE BLEACHERS BLOG

MoveOn's response to 9/11

In light of the Democrat's current calls for Karl Rove to resign, it is interesting to look at liberal 527 group MoveOn.org's reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11:

We, The Undersigned, Citizens And Residents Of The United States Of America … Appeal To The President Of The United States, George W. Bush … And To All Leaders Internationally To Use Moderation And Restraint In Responding To The Recent Terrorist Attacks Against The United States...

We Implore The Powers That Be To Use, Wherever Possible, International Judicial Institutions And International Human Rights Law To Bring To Justice Those Responsible For The Attacks, Rather Than The Instruments Of War, Violence Or Destruction...

We Demand That There Be No Recourse To Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Weapons, Or Any Weapons Of Indiscriminate Destruction, And Feel That It Is Our Inalienable Human Right To Live In A World Free Of Such Arms.

posted by chappy22 at 2:51 PM   

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Damn shame more of the general public cannot be exposed to this.

[Happy2BMe]

Where do our government leaders find time to run the government when all they care about is getting retractions?

(Who is running this place, anyway?)

[mystery-ak]

Rove's response should be *Im sorry if my words offended you*....I want to hear the rats claim that's not an apology!

[ken5050]

Also consider this....Rove, being a political genius, knew exactly the impact his words would have..so why make then at a Conservative Party dinner, in NY...? One word..Hillary..the strategy he lampoons was her huisbands..remember...perhaps the first sign of an anti-Hilary strategery..

[silent_jonny]

New tagline.

[mystery-ak]

Rove is shrewd....maybe Im right after all that he will issue his own non-apology...let the rats wail and he's got a gotcha!

[Christian4Bush]

see tagline

[listenhillary]

"No matter what the evidence, liberals insist that only their tender ministrations are capable of calming murderous dictators. Negotiation and engagement are said to "work" because, after Democrats spend years dillydallying with lunatic despots who threaten America, eventually a Republican president comes in and threatens aggressive military action. In a fascinating fifty-year pattern -- completely indiscernible to liberals -- murderous despots succumb to "engagement" shortly after a Republican president threatens to bomb them. This allows liberals to hail years of impotent negotiation and engagement as a foreign policy 'win'." -- Ann Coulter, P. 143

[listenhillary]

"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it." -- Ann Coulter, P. 213

[F.J. Mitchell]

Agree completely. And President Bush should tell the Dems in no uncertain terms, that he agrees with Rove.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Or maybe: " I regret that I have but one offence to give in defence of my country."

[LucyJo]

The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers

Great tagline! That oughta be on T-shirts and bumper stickers...is it?

[jacquej]

Color me clueless here...

Is this the Dems' effort to cover Durbin's butt?

[kinghorse]

The modus of the Democrats seems to be that it's more important to appear to be relevant than viewed as rational or prudent. People hardly raise their eyebrows when they say or do something outlandish so why not force the opposition to pay attention by baiting them into a contentious reply. It's like a petulant kid, they crave any kind of attention, good or bad. They are forcing the tenor and topic of the debate.

[Bahbah]

LOL, truth is an absolute defense. Rove is home free.

[LucyJo]

Rove didn't make these comments without forethought. I've got a feeling we're seeing "strategery" in motion. I luv it!

[ozzymandus]

Desperate RAT appempt at payback for the bruising they took over durbin's treasonous remarks and non-apology. The RAT lapdog media will play it up big on the evening news, but it ain't gonna fly.

[Christian4Bush]

The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers

Great tagline! That oughta be on T-shirts and bumper stickers...is it?

It might be, by now...you know how fast and smart some of us "geeks in pajamas" are!

[CharlesWayneCT]

Here's my Rove apology:

"To those of you who recognized your position in my statement, and realise how stupid it was, and feel hurt by my bringing it up, I'm sorry I made you feel bad".