Posted on 06/23/2005 8:53:47 AM PDT by 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.
Thanks for posting this. This is precious...
After all this "compassionate conservatism" and bending over backwards for the Clintons and Kennedy's from the Bush administration, it comes as somewhat of a pleasant shock, to hear that Rove believes exactly as we do about Leftist POS's.
Wish they'd act on these beliefs more often.
DEM don't accepting truth!!! NOOOOOOO... they only invent it.
Geez... must be brain f*rt
'' Liberal want to offer therapy and understanding to the terrorists''.............. Rove should have added healthcare to that list!
Haven't the Kennedys come up with some "interesting" versions of the "truth" over the years...?
Scarborough's going to show an interview he did with Rove after all this happened, in a few minutes. First, the Aruba story.
Welcome to FR!
I agree with your blog regarding the SCOTUS decision on personal property today.
I was on a rant and called several RATS. When I said it's obviously ok for a Senator to smear the military but don't dare say anything about Democrats, I got the same reaction. Redial and asking for names is very enlightening.
Great collection!
We have to keep collecting and posting it.
The truth will not be retracted, Democrats.
Roping dopes takes time. Give the children (lib marxists) time and the more they spew the more the media prints it,and like really bad immature children they ratchet up their vitriol for all to see who they are. They are so immature and crazy from being in the minority they just keep pushing the envelope. Obviously Karl and Co feel it is time, they then pull the rope in and especially today we have Lexxus Nexxus. VOILA!! The best rat trap in America. HAH!
Just heard the interview was before Rove gave the speech. Sorry.
Yah! sorry liberal worm bags, you cant deal with facts!
First of all, "I'm sorry if you were offended..." is not an apology, and second, I would chip in for the Bill Board if Karl wants to put his comments in 6' letters over I-95.
I think those remarks by Rove were carefully planned and constructed to show that the Democrats "can dish it out but they can't take it". The remarks were truthful, they did not specifically name the Democratic Party nor any Democrat, they remarks were made at a private function by a private citizen. As opposed to the remarks lately by Democrats where they were made viciously while working as elected officials.
Touche' Mr. Rove!
The RATS don't really care about winning the war in Iraq! In fact they would'' LOVE IT ''if we lost the war in Iraq and the war on terror in general. As long as it scored points for their side , weakened George Bush, and got them all back in power. Thats all these attacks are about.Sad to say but true!
Touche' Mr. Rove!
Well said! And:
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