Various members of the Coalition of Sedition are upset (Warning: link will contain much puerile vulgarity, count on it) that Senator Durbin "apologized" for comparing Americans to Nazis, gulags, etc.
Joshua Micah Marshall, who didn't have a thing to say about Durbin's slander, is very upset by Karl Rove saying liberals are softer on national security than conservatives. Looks like the lefties are going to try to Durbinize Rove. There's no equivalence at all between what Rove said and what Durbin said. But as Durbin demonstrated already, liberals have a real problem detecting genuine moral equivalence.
Via Wizbang, Senator Schumer is also upset by Rove's comments. The hypocrisy of Schumer saying no one should politicize the national security issue is just staggering.
The Truth Hurts Sometimes
Democrats are up in arms because Karl Rove called it as it is, and they don't like it one bit:
Bush's chief political adviser, Rove said in a speech Wednesday that "liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments a...
Trackback by Iowa Voice — June 23, 2005 @ 4:08 pm June 23, 2005
Senator Hagel this past week said that we are losing the war in Iraq. When AL-Jazeerah runs this on their network and declares that a REPUBLICAN US SENATOR is claiming that America is losing the war in Iraq, it will not only only bolster Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts, but it will also demoralize our troops and further imperil them by encouraging our enemies. Ironically, Chuck Hagel has desires to be the president of this nation. Will America vote for a traitor for President? I hope not. This is much more demoralizing than anything Dick Durbin said. Where is the Republican party’s outrage? Where is Karl Rove’s outrage? Where is Mayor Daley’s outrage.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=41358&version=1&templa te_id=57&parent_id=56
The Families of September 11 are pissed.
As families whose relatives were victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, we believe it is an outrage that any Democrat, any Republican, any conservative or any liberal, stakes a “high ground” position based upon the September 11th death and destruction. Doing so assumes that all those who died and their loved ones would agree. In truth, some would and some would not. By definition the conduct is divisive and, because it is intended to be self-serving and politicizes 9/11, it is offensive.
We are calling on Karl Rove to resist his temptations and stop trying to reap political gain in the tragic misfortune of others. His comments are not welcome.
Comment by evangelicaljunebug — June 23, 2005 @ 4:24 pm June 23, 2005
Many on the Right have also not been fans of Karl Rove... He has been blamed by some of my fellow conservatives for some of the non-conservative policies of the Bush administration.
But on foreign policy, Rove has actually been viewed, in some analysts of intra-administration politics, as a balance to the hard-line war hawks in the Bush administration. Some of them had wanted another pre-emptive war during the first term, and they expressed concerns, during the Fall of 2003, when it was reported that people like Karl Rove and Grover Norquist were advising President Bush to avoid any more such wars... ["No Wars in '04!"]
As for Rove's current statements, I think that he was being excessively reductionist in those remarks... Something that one would expect more from some parts of the Blogosphere than from a White House advisor. But depending on the context and time constraints that those remarks were made in (I haven't looked that up), that could be partly justified.
Asking for someone to resign over this is absurd. As for Dick Durbin, we will hopefully be able to defeat him in the next election.
Comment by Aakash — June 23, 2005 @ 6:12 pm June 23, 2005