Who Divided America?
This piece in today's Washington Post attempts to assign blame for the division that resulted in liberals attacking President Bush before the dead have even been retrieved from the streets of New Orleans.
Laughably, the piece quotes Clinton domestic policy advisor calling President Bush "the most partisan president" in modern America history.
Really? Like the way he tried to reach out to Teddy Kennedy on the "No Child Left Behind" bill? Or the way that he agreed to Democratic demands that war authorization for Iraq be debated in the early fall of 2002?
Or how about, as Ken Mehlman points out in the piece linked at the top, the prescription drug bill, the Patriot Act, and the legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security? Contrast this with the Democratic behavior on everything from social security reform (where they denied a crisis that Bill Clinton had himself described only several years before) to their unprecedented decision to filibuster appeals court judges -- and then decide which side has been outrageously partisan. Add to it the hitherto-unheard of ad hominem attacks practiced by the likes of Democratic leader Harry Reid, who called the President a liar and a loser (the latter, incidentally, when he was traveling abroad).
Some Democrats have hated President Bush since the day he beat Al Gore. That hatred grew when he was able to attain the stature of a war president. It became crazy when he won re-election despite liberals' best efforts -- and they realized that they really might not be "silent majority" of America, as they had believed for years.
I have never heard President Bush attack his detractors. His current behavior is typical of him -- and, one must add -- in contrast from the partisan vitriol that occasionally emanated from Bill Clinton.
And as I noted yesterday, the MSM bears its own share of responsibility. It has no problem marginalizing right wing moonbats -- but can't seem to exercise the same judgment when it comes to the left. Even so, don't expect to gain any hint of self-criticism in the pages of the major dailies.
Laughably, the piece quotes Clinton domestic policy advisor calling President Bush "the most partisan president" in modern America history.
Really? Like the way he tried to reach out to Teddy Kennedy on the "No Child Left Behind" bill? Or the way that he agreed to Democratic demands that war authorization for Iraq be debated in the early fall of 2002?
Or how about, as Ken Mehlman points out in the piece linked at the top, the prescription drug bill, the Patriot Act, and the legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security? Contrast this with the Democratic behavior on everything from social security reform (where they denied a crisis that Bill Clinton had himself described only several years before) to their unprecedented decision to filibuster appeals court judges -- and then decide which side has been outrageously partisan. Add to it the hitherto-unheard of ad hominem attacks practiced by the likes of Democratic leader Harry Reid, who called the President a liar and a loser (the latter, incidentally, when he was traveling abroad).
Some Democrats have hated President Bush since the day he beat Al Gore. That hatred grew when he was able to attain the stature of a war president. It became crazy when he won re-election despite liberals' best efforts -- and they realized that they really might not be "silent majority" of America, as they had believed for years.
I have never heard President Bush attack his detractors. His current behavior is typical of him -- and, one must add -- in contrast from the partisan vitriol that occasionally emanated from Bill Clinton.
And as I noted yesterday, the MSM bears its own share of responsibility. It has no problem marginalizing right wing moonbats -- but can't seem to exercise the same judgment when it comes to the left. Even so, don't expect to gain any hint of self-criticism in the pages of the major dailies.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:51 AM
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Along the same lines, though hard to look at:
http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=3026
I have never heard President Bush attack his detractors.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh wait, you're serious?!?
The Bush administration has made a habit of carefully choreographed attacks on anyone who disagrees with them politically. Witness the treatment of Paul O'Neil, Richard Clark, John Kerry, and Cindy Sheehan. You should be familiar with the last of these, at least, as you spent the better part of two weeks sliming Mrs. Sheehan.
The best example, of course, were the attacks on Joe Wilson. Not content to limit himself to Ambassador Wilson, Karl Rove went after his wife, claiming that Valerie Plame was "fair game."
The President's and Vice-President's cheif political advisors leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent during a time of war. And what was their motivation? Cheap political payback for Joe Wilson telling the American public the truth.
You don't need to sully yourself with attacking your political opponents if you are amoral enough to let your surrogates do it for you.
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