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.
I just found this great new ad at the RNC website.
http://www.gop.com/
Click on "The Democrats Today" in the center of the page.
It illustrates Rove's points perfectly.
Fox News says that Hillary, Lautenberg, Kennedy, Obama, Reid, Schumer all sent a letter to President Bush today demanding Rove's resignation....
I think Bush shold make it known he'd consider the 'Rats letter as soon as they send one to Durbin demanding his resignation...
I hope Bush treats that letter the way it deserves to be treated.
How many of these same Dems demanded that Durbin resign for his statements about our US troops?
And since when is speaking the truth cause for resignation?
Martin Frost is debating John Kasich---on Fox and I have NEVER seen Kasich mad before...in fact IMHO, he is TOO laid back..
BUT, Martin Frost just said that Rove's speech was 10 times worse than what Durbin said on the Senate floor...HE IS AN IDIOT----and I am so glad that my fellow Texans voted him out...
I am furious, after watching that "debate"...
I forgot to finish my thought about Kasich---he was RED in the face he was so mad at Frost, when Frost said that Rove's remarks were SO MUCH WORSE than Durbins...
Frost even admitted that Fox called him to talk about the Durbin remarks last week, and he refused to go on and discuss them...what a chicken "s"!
For everything that I have heard, the White House is laughing it off--saying not only won't they ask for his resignation, but they see NO reason for an apology...
Well, I guess we can expect even LESS to get done in the Senate this year.....yay, no more big spending!!!
More examples of actual quotes from Dems:
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Even after the fight in Afghanistan had begun, elected officials like Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D, Ga.) and Jesse Jackson Jr. (D, Ill.) attended and spoke at Communist-sponsored "anti-war" rallies, alongside vitriolic anti-Americans of every stripe. Sen. Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.), Rep. Charles Rangel (D, N.Y.) and Rep. John Conyers (D, Mich.) introduced bills in their respective houses of Congress to institute a draft, for the express purpose of turning American sentiment against the military.
Reps. Jim McDermott (D, Wash.), David Bonior (D, Mich.) and Mike Thompson (D, Calif.) traveled to Baghdad before the war, where they served as mouthpieces for Saddam Hussein's regime. While there, McDermott told ABC News, "I think the president would mislead the American people" to provoke a war against Iraq. He was evidently nowhere near as distrustful of Saddam and his Baath Party goose-steppers.
Some Democrats have gone as far as to become apologists for our mortal enemies. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, N.Y.) claimed that the women of Iraq were better off with Saddam in power. "He was an equal opportunity oppressor," she said, conceding that he'd been a brutal despot, while finding him innocent of the (presumably more serious) offense of sexism. "But on paper, women had rights. ... As long as they stayed out of his way, they had considerable freedom of movement." On paper, they had rights, in a dictatorship? "As long as they stayed out of his way?" Some freedom.
Mrs. Clinton's willingness to see the sunny side of Saddam's Iraq seems mild, compared to what her colleague, Sen. Patty Murray (D, Wash.) had to say about Osama bin Laden. "We've got to ask, why is this man so popular around the world?" she gushed to a group of high school students. "Why are the people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty? ... He's been out in these countries for decades building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their life better. We have not done that. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"
At least Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D, Ohio) doesn't portray Americans as inferior to al-Qaeda. She allows that our founding fathers are roughly equal to the mass-murdering terrorists. "One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped cast off the British crown," she told the Toledo Blade. How many of our soldiers are aware that they're fighting the War on Non-Nation-State Fighters with Religious Purpose?
With a few exceptions, the Republicans have refused to hold their opponents accountable for these and other outrages. All that Democrats have to do to divorce themselves from their unpatriotic words and actions is to indignantly huff, "Are you questioning our patriotism?"
http://shinbone.home.att.net/wahw.htm
Memo: June 25, 2005
To: Sens. Clinton, Lautenberg, Kennedy, Obama, Reid, Schumer
From: The White House
As if!
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
George W. Bush
I bet GWB is shaking in his boots now. Letters from the insane wing of the liberal party. :0)
Like you tag line. I wonder if we suggested Mark Levin for UN ambassador, we could get some of the insane senators committed?
I could just her Kofi Annen dealing with Mark Levin---Levin wouldn't think twice about calling him a crooked so and so!!! LOL
Reid, Schumer and Durbin.....:et me see, could it be dumb, dumber and dumbest, the three stooges, or the three mouseketeers?
The only thing that united liberals on 9/11 was their common hate for president Bush and their willingness to blame him for the attack.Chuck should take a look at his fellow lowlife liberal friends and he'll see that they haven't stopped aiding and abetting our enemy since the first plane struck the tower.
JUICY---my first guess, before I read the article was Rockefeller, he has been mad at Roberts since the Intell Committee's report came out showing that President Bush did NOT---lie about the WMDs before the war...
Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for ``moderation and restraint'' after the terrorist attacks.
Rove said liberals, they heard democrats. how about that?
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