Posted on 08/12/2002 6:16:01 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 10 -- President Bush exploited the attacks of Sept. 11 for political advantage, sought to manipulate the markets to suit his ends and cannot combat corporate scandals because of his own business background, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terence R. McAuliffe charged here today in a harsh opening to the November midterm elections.
McAuliffe said that, after Sept. 11, Bush failed "to transcend partisanship" and squandered a mandate for bipartisan action by failing to lead on the economy, health care and the environment. "Step aside," he said to Bush, "because a Democratic Congress is coming in 2002 and they will."
In a bid to energize Democratic voters, McAuliffe offered the toughest critique of Bush's presidency since Sept. 11, signaling Democrats' belief that the issue agenda now favors their candidates and foreshadowing a fall campaign that will be as hard fought as the 2000 presidential election...
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1-The Left is again lying.
2-The media is again supporting the lies.
3-The lies are based on 9/11, how much worse can it get?
Terry McAuliffe does it again. The DNC chairman and head of the Democrat Party inserted his size 12 foot in his mouth Sunday, accusing Bush of having stolen the 2000 presidential election from poor Albert.Albert who?
Albert Gore, former Veep, lockbox, 'people versus the powerful' -- ring a bell?
"He [Gore] was robbed, that's a fact!", he told Sam Donaldson on ABC's The Week. Gore has to "get up every morning knowing that" he "got half a million more votes than George Bush did", he whined.
Oh, the agony! Oh, the pain!
Gee, but didn't the Tennessee slumlord ultimately concede the election? "Tonight, for the sake of our unity ... and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession", Mr Snippy said on December 13, 2000, 36 insufferable days after endless "recounts", 'hanging chads', 'swinging chads', 'dimpled chads', 'pimpled chads', 'pregnant chads', 'deadbeat chads', etc., etc. For weeks, Gore frantically tried to steal the election -- but failed.
That's a fact.
Or is Mr. Buddhist Temple retracting his concession?
Gazillions of media 'recounts' conducted since only confirm Bush won fair-and-square.
That's a fact, too.
Besides, methinks 'Ice Tea' Al needs a refresher course in the U.S. Constitution. Presidents aren't elected by popular vote, but by electoral votes. The electoral college system is found in Article II, section I of the constitution. In the U.S., presidential elections consist of 50 statewide contests: The candidate who gets the most electoral votes, wins. Simple as that.
Too simple to grasp for McAuliffe, I suppose.
Oops! Never mind...I forgot...we're talking about 'no-controlling-legal-authority' Al here.
Back to the ABC interview:
Asked to explain his complaint that no Democrat was invited to Bush's upcoming Economic Forum in Waco, McAuliffe stumbled and staggered. When Donaldson noted that no less than 43 'forum attendees' are generous donors to Democrat candidates and 'party organizations' -- to the tune of over $255,000 since 1990 -- McAuliffe tripped all over his 'answer'.
"Because they [The White House] put out a list of...this is not a fundraiser, Sam!"
Well, duh.
Of course it isn't, Terry. That's the precisely point. Were this the Clinton White House, it would be. That's the difference.
Nor did he offer a credible explanation for the 'killing' he made in Global Crossing, turning a $100,000 initial "investment" into a mindboggling $18,000,000 shortly thereafter. McAuliffe, at the time, was trying to hook up pal Gary Winnick, company CEO, with the Clinton White House. The $18 million smacks of insider trading: The stock was dumped just before Global Crossing went belly-up.
How did McAuliffe know the company was about to tank? Nothing he said quelled the cloud of suspicion he's under.
His 'alibi' doesn't pass the laugh test.
McAuliffe was also asked about controversial remarks during his froth-in-the-mouth tirade in Las Vegas, where Democrats were holding their summer conference. The speech was an orgy of ad hominem attacks, charging the President with "exploiting" 9/11 for political gain.
A sweeping indictment of the Bush administration, the media called it.
Ah, don't think so. 'Indictment' ascribes merit to the charges. There are no merits. McAuliff's attacks were not only baseless, they were utterly ridiculous.
And -- upon closer scrutiny -- brimming with contradictions.
McAuliffe, in one breath, trashes the President of using 9/11 for political reasons. But then, in the next, slams him for failing to use 9/11 for action on Social Security, health care, the economy.
McAuliffe blasts the President for "squandering" the surplus, but then demands that Bush spend more on domestic programs.
"It's a sad commentary on the state of the Democratic Party when they meet and cannot unite around a positive agenda and instead can only resort to negative attacks", said Scott McClellan, White House spokesman.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
But then, we could hardly expect the paper to characterize it as what it really is.. political rhetoric at it's lowest and most despicable.
Another good post, Keep it up.
What else but bitter, mindless hatemongering should any of us expect from a leftist rag like the Washington Compost? We've been reading and listing to this exact same crapola for the past two years. I suppose that elsewhere in the article (which I will not read after having perused the first paragraph) old Terry says the Bush tax cut is responsible for the post 9-11 economic crash that occurred less than two months after the first stage took effect. It gets really tiresome.
As always, your two cents is a breath of fresh air...especially after reading another reeking product of race hating, class hating, gender hating, freedom hating, motherhood-and apple-pie hating leftist propaganda like the Washington Compost article.
Keep up the good work.
He is so sleazy that, after seeing McAuliffe on TV, you feel like you need to take a shower
Rather than complement the list let's spend 15 seconds in silence out of respect for former Atlanta mayor M Jackson, who sought to be the first black DNC leader, only to be brutally buried by the Clintons out of deference to their passions for McAuliffe's dishonorable characteristics.
Most importantly, why was it so important to the Clintons that Terry McAuliffe be installed as head of the party?
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