You are a nice guy. I think you are one of the few democrats I voted for. But really, today's editorial on civility was a bit one sided. One Republican yelled out in a fit of righteous anger, "You Lie," to a President who was lying to Congress and the American people, and you just fall apart. The only items you listed were failings of the Republicans. That's odd. Listen to these NO's and Boo's during Bush's important (and truthful) speech on Social Security, when Democrats were the minority party, before 2006 when they set in concrete really rude behavior--like Barney Frank's imitation of Joe McCarthy, or confirming tax cheats like Timothy Geithner and wackos like Cass Sunstein who perform as Obama surrogates.
You suggest people look in the mirror, and Ted, that's an excellent idea, especially for Democrats with a poor memory, and those who worry about "birthers" on the right but ignore "truthers" on the left, even appointing them to influential offices within government where they can continue their paranoid hate in comfort.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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"Have we failed to notice that the president himself had just called the words of prominent politicians 'a lie, plain and simple'? Have we failed to notice that his entire something-for-nothing scheme simply doesn't add up financially, which makes it one grand lie? Have we forgotten that Senator Harry Reid said 'President Bush is a liar' and never apologized for it? Have we forgotten the vicious, unrelenting Democrat attacks on Bush throughout his presidency or on Sarah Palin, extending even to her family and her children? Or the gratuitous attacks on Republican judicial nominees starting with Robert Bork and running through Sam Alito to a point at which Mrs. Alito had to leave the hearing room in tears? Have we lost all perspective? Or is the question before us and this debate just one more example of politics as usual here in Washington?" Rush Limbaugh show, Sept. 11, 2009
"Why would I believe him?" asked Rep. Murtha, D-Pa., a major critic of the Bush administration's handling of the war. "This administration, including the president, (has) mischaracterized this war for the last two years." John Murtha, March 2006
Rahm Emanuel, another Obama surrogate, is famous for his temper, and once sent a dead fish to an unlucky pollster. Another time, he mimed stabbing his political enemies with a steak knife. Slate, Nov. 6, 2008
MR. RUSSERT: When the president talked about Yucca Mountain and moving the nation's nuclear waste there, you were very, very, very strong in your words. You said, "President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country."
Is that rhetoric appropriate?
SEN. REID: I don't know if that rhetoric is appropriate. That's how I feel. Dec. 4, 2004
Rolling Stone: You've called Bush a loser.
Harry Reid: And a liar.
RS: You apologized for the loser comment.
HR: But never for the liar, have I?
Rolling stone, 2005
I keep hearing, especially during this health (s)care issue, how people have never seen such uncivil and unbecoming conduct from a president’s opponents, both in Washington and among the electorate.
Um, no you liars. Nothing—I repeat, nothing—will ever be a bigger example of uncivil, unbecoming, unpatriotic, and unpatriotic conduct than that exhibited by liberal/Democrat Bush-bashers for the past nine years.
Nothing. Vocal Minority, Sept. 10, 2009
The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue. Byron York, Sept. 8
OK, so you've proven Democrats are rude and crude. Now what?
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