Month: June 2006
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Bush’s “surrender” rhetoric
In a speech on Monday, President Bush suggested that Democrats are going to “wave the white flag of surrender”: “There’s a group in the opposition party who are willing to retreat before the mission is done,” he said. “They’re willing to wave the white flag of surrender. And if they succeed, the United States will
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Digby: Limbaugh on underage “sex tour”
In a comment on my last post about nasty liberal rhetoric, Jon Henke of Q&O points out that the well-known blogger Digby has suggested that Rush Limbaugh solicited underage prostitutes during his recent trip to the Dominican Republic: I know that a good establishment liberal would refrain from even discussing the fact that Rush Limbaugh
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Tomasky’s nasty “simian” rhetoric
I hate it when liberals slur conservatives as less than human by calling them Neanderthals or, in this case, “simian,” which American Prospect editor Mike Tomasky used to describe a Republican Senate candidate: Note that on the flag-burning amendment, Robert Byrd voted against. Even though he’s from red West Virginia. Even though Jay Rockefeller voted
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Why liberal blogs can hurt Democrats
Newsweek’s new article on Daily Kos includes a useful discussion of how liberal blogs like Kos could actually hurt Democrats: [S]ome Dems fear that Moulitsas’s popularity will pull the party so far to the left that it won’t be able to win the general election in 2008. “It’s a little bit like ‘Invasion of the
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Bush’s ’06 strategy: Bash the press?
The New York Times reports that the Bush administration launched an offensive against the newspaper yesterday for its decision to reveal a financial monitoring program used to track terrorists: President Bush on Monday condemned as “disgraceful” the disclosure last week by The New York Times and other newspapers of a secret program to investigate and
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Hoekstra and Santorum op-ed on “WMDs”
Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Senator Rick Santorum have written a Wall Street Journal op-ed that expands on their misleading claims that we found WMDs in Iraq: On Wednesday, at our request, the director of national intelligence declassified six “key points” from a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report on the recovery of chemical munitions in
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Duke lacrosse prosecution falling apart
More evidence from the Duke lacrosse case has been made public, and — like the last batch — it is absolutely damning to the prosecution: Hours after a March 13 Duke University lacrosse team party, the woman who said players raped her that night told police changing stories. An officer at Duke Hospital wrote in
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Smear: Bush won with “Jim Crow tactics”
In an article titled “Jim Crow GOP” on TomPaine.com, Air America producer Steve Rosenfeld alleges that “it was Jim Crow tactics… which gave George W. Bush his Ohio victory in 2004.” But, Rosenfeld claims, the conspiracy cannot be acknowledged by Democrats, who presumably would have the most to gain from backing Rosenfeld’s accusations if they
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Notes on the Iraq withdrawal debate
Media Matters documents the inevitable accusation that Democrats who support withdrawal are aiding the enemy, which came, bizarrely, from Geraldo on Fox News: I’ve known John Kerry for over 35 years. Unlike me, he is a combat veteran, so he gets some props. But in the last 35 years, I’ve seen a hell of a
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Hoekstra and Santorum: WMD found
Via Josh Marshall, it looks like Republicans are still promoting the misperception that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (PDF). Here’s what Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Senator Rick Santorum said yesterday according to the Washington Post: Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told reporters