Queue the Twilight Zone music ...
Posted on 01/31/2012 11:28:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver
DNC Spokesman Claims Democrats Never Used 'Extreme Rhetoric' Against Bush Mark Hemingway January 31, 2012 1:45 PM
Via Real Clear Politics, Democratic party spokesman Brad Woodhouse makes a bizarre assertion in response to Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus comparing Obama to the captain of a wrecked Italian cruise ship:
"Many Republicans will say didn't Democrats attack George Bush in exactly the same way. what's your response to that?," Bashir asked Woodhouse.
"I don't remember anything that equates from official Democratic Party. I mean, of course there are interest groups and people have their say, but I don't remember anything coming from Democratic Party about George W. Bush being equated to a terrorist or George W. Bush being equated to somebody who has been accused of manslaughter. I don't remember anybody questioning some of the things about George W. Bush that have been questioned about the president. I don't remember an opposing Governor wagging his or her finger in president George W. Bush's face," Woodhouse said.
"The truth is, is that the Republican Party starts from a core of extreme positions and it seems that leads to extreme rhetoric when things don't work out for them with the voters," he said.
Now, I'm not sure Priebus's comments about Obama are anybody's idea of elevating the discourse. That said, are Democrats really going to try and claim the high ground here? Let me jog Woodhouse's memory a bit—here's former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean drawing an implicit comparison between Bush and the president of Iran back in 2006. Here's a DNC memo from 2008 that says Bush administration criticism of labor unions is tantamount to questioning the patriotism of the heroes of 9/11. And that's just from a quick Google. I'm sure many more examples abound, to say nothing of current DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's recent suggestions that the Tea Party is responsible for the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords.
I understand party spokesmen are inclined to gild the lily, but this attempt at spin is disconnected from reality.
Democrats only remember things that are politically convenient and fit their agenda.
It depends on what the definition of extreme is.
Bring back the looney bins. It’ll drop the DNC and its supporters numbers by half.
Do “Snipers wanted” ring a bell?
Stand far back from that person...lightning is about to strike!
Queue the Twilight Zone music ...
from a Bill Maher interview with John Kerry, in 2004:
“Bill Maher: You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.
Kerry: Or, I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
What about that Canadian movie? Let the Canadians make the same movie and let Obama be the “subject”. Oh, the horror.
As I recall Harry Reid went on a Sunday network talk show and called GWBush a ‘loser’, and I am sure there are more.
I know Hillary said she was deceived by Bush into supporting the Iraq war, which she did up till her Dem primary with Obama 2002 to ~ 2007.
Yep, Reid called Bush “a loser” and “a liar” when he was speaking to a class full of school children.
In early 2006, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said of President Bush: “I really do believe this man will go down as the worst president this country has ever had.”
Januray 4, 2009 - On “Meet the Press” host David Gregory asked Reid whether he regrets making that statement.
REID: I think you just have to call things the way you see them, I really do believe President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had.”
GREGORY: Before you go, do you have any regrets about the way you have publicly battled with President Bush?
Over the years you’ve called him a liar, a loser, and you’ve described him as, quote, our worst president ever.
REID: I wrote a book and I said that in the book several times. David, I am who I am. I’m going to continue being who I am. I think you just have to call things the way you see them.
I really do believe that President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had. I think his efforts to destroy Social Security were very bad. That brought about one of those statements.
I think, as we’ve looked, now, at what’s happened to the stock market, wouldn’t that have been an awful thing to do, to privatize Social Security?
Medicare — he’s done his very best to destroy Medicare, Medicare, a wonderful program. Perfect? Of course not, but one of the best programs ever developed to take care of sick people, so…
GREGORY: No regrets?
REID: Well, you know, I am just who I am.
Drinking all that Kool Aid must cause memory brain cells to self-destruct!!!!
"They have attached a poison pill — literally, colleagues — because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution,” -Barbara Boxer, December, 2011
"“It’s as if someone is holding a gun to your head and saying give me your money….,” he said. “You can hurt innocent people by not getting your own way.” -Chuck Schumer on the GOP's temporary shutdown of the FAA.
Republicans are "“putting a gun against the heads of the American people” for not supporting tax hikes- Barack Obama, July 2011
"It's almost like the question of do you negotiate with terrorists," Dem Senator Bob Menendez, December 2010, on Republicans refusing tax increases.
He’s right. I don’t recall them ever comparing Bushitler to the captain of a wrecked Italian cruse ship.
I’m still waiting for the first season of Li’l Obamas
What about this prophetic announcement from war historian Harry Reid:
“The War Is lost”
Reid’s whopper came in 2007, a year after Zarqawi and his team had been killed in Baghdad, “Al Qaida-in Iraq” , with support of the local population, was destroyed in Anbar province, and after Patraeus’ surge had ended the insurgency’s chances of winning.
Reince Priebus needs to apologize to the Italian Sea Captain for comparing him and the Kenyan Rat-Bastard.
DNC Spokesman Claims Democrats Never Used 'Extreme Rhetoric' Against Bush
Nope ... not one time ... ever ... lying Pubs made this all up ... not us ...
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