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Number of Republicans who signed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) letter to Clear Channel’s CEO condemning Rush Limbaugh. Forty-one Democrats signed the letter. In contrast, 72 senators voted to condemn MoveOn.org’s New York Times ad.
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The GOP junta must end.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 pmI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
The hypocrisy is palpable.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 pmWe already knew they would be hypocrites about this issue.
However, to have nary a signature from the Republicans? Not a single, solitary individual condemning Rush Limbaugh’s ridiculous statements with the same yardstick they used to measure MoveOn.org?
Pathetically partisan.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:57 pmMaybe the democrats in the Senate will finally get a clue that the other party is 100% partisan, and that they need to stop deluding themselves into the false belief that there is anything consistent, moral or honest about the GOP.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:02 pmOust the Democrats that did not sign, and oust all the Republicans
Hypocrites all
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 pmWell, that shows you two things.
1) The Republics are hypocritical lemmings and
2) The Democrats are incapable of learning their lessons.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pmThe GOP is going to get another ass whupin in Nov 2008 and Bush/Cheney don’t give a rats ass !
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 pmThey will get what they deserve for being good subservient asshats !
It should not come as a surprise to Democrats that the Republicans are hypocritical. It is time to fight fire with fire and shut down the Senate until we get the votes to end the war.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 pmLarry Rafferty
Exactly Ryan.
The republicans don’t give they just receive.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 2, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
It’s the greedy lover syndrome. Time for the American Voter to have a ‘breakup’.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:09 pmPut them on record. Make them vote on it. Signing a letter doesn’t count. Make them cross their base or expose them to be flaming hypocrites on this issue.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 pmWell, that shows you two things.
1) The Republics are hypocritical lemmings and
2) The Democrats are incapable of learning their lessons.
Comment by bilbobaggins — October 2, 2007 @ 8:05 pm
I wouldn’t say incapable, they just give others the benefit of the doubt, even when they don’t deserve it (see Item 1). I think many if not most of the Democrats have really started getting a clue – especially this week!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 pmPut them on record. Make them vote on it. Signing a letter doesn’t count. Make them cross their base or expose them to be flaming hypocrites on this issue.
Comment by Innocent Bystander — October 2, 2007 @ 8:10 pm
Exactly! Anyone want to guess where Lieberman the Loser will fall?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:11 pmThis is what you get when you listen to phony GOP outrage. How many times are some Democrats going to fall for this crap?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 pmI think it’s great that the government is so threatened by Moveon.
Moveon has gotten a ton of free publicity and more Americans are joining.
Everybody at work is asking me about Moveon and glad that I’m able to give them the web address to sign up.
http://www.moveon.org
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 pmI want to know why any Democrats voted to condemn MoveOn.
Why the hell do they play along with this kind of Republican propaganda?
Voting with the Republicans on this crap doesn’t make the Democrats look patriotic or bi-partisan. It makes them look like saps. The Repubs get points and the Dems look stupid.
When will they learn? When will they quit being the idiot saps?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:25 pmQuestions we know the answers to we don’t need to ask.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 2, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
I don’t know, I rather enjoy reminding everyone what a traitor to his party and THIS country Lieberman is.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:26 pmVoting with the Republicans on this crap doesn’t make the Democrats look patriotic or bi-partisan. It makes them look like saps. The Repubs get points and the Dems look stupid.
When will they learn? When will they quit being the idiot saps?
Comment by eve — October 2, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
Dems don’t look so stupid, when you consider how much it exposed the completely hypocrisy of the Republicans! This ended up being one of the best PR things the Democrats have done in a while – despite my own objections at first!
The Republicans have been shown to be dishonest, partisan, lying hacks in the absolute most clearest of terms!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pmWhy would any thinking individual expect something different from a group of bootlicking, asskissing, rubber necked, thugs, who supported the crime family through the destruction of our liberties and our constitution?
The GOP is nothing more than the KKK and John Birch Society in 2007.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 pmIn related news, the GOP is losing its money base.
The big tent gets emptier and emptier, thanks to the stench of religious and social hypocrisy from the values GOP! The religious wingnuts have done more to destroy the GOP than anything the opposition could have done! To quote a favorite term of the wingnuts, they’ve been useful idiots!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:29 pmI think many if not most of the Democrats have really started getting a clue – especially this week!
Comment by Ryan Neat
God I hope so. I don’t think my heart can take much more anger on my part. I had palpitations last night. I’ve been seriously thinking about taking a hiatus from politics, but when I do that, I feel like such a slacker. The two e-mails I send each morning (one to Pelosi and one to Reid) gets my blood pumping, along with my latte.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:29 pmAre we surprised?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 pmThey will NOT join with Democrats, no matter what the cause.
It’s against their religion.
I was out most of the day and didn’t know Rush had metaphorically called the critically injured soldier in the VoteVets ad a “suicide bomber.” It was just on Olbermann, so I looked it up, so forgive me if this has already been posted on TP today.
“This is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into,’’ Limbaugh said today.
Brian McGough was horribly injured by a suicide bomber.
Keep digging, Rush.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 pmNOW will the Democrats learn their lesson? You give Republicans an inch they’ll take a mile. Suckers.
Those who voted to condemn MoveOn look like fools. When are they going to stop giving the Republican midgets in Congress their lunch money?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pmNow we know there isn’t ONE authentic Republican in Congress! And that includes all of the presidential candidates who have shown a level of personal hypocrisy which makes them “unfit” to serve this country.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:39 pmI hate the see this group of spineless Democrats continue to bend over like they do. Arghhh!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:40 pmThis will make the Republicans look like the inhumane thugs whom they are – in full view of the people of this country. I’d be surprised if the GOP has enough members to not make a Republican National Convention look like a carnival in a two-horse town.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:41 pmLet’s all make contributions to MoveOn.org right now! We need them to continue to dig up the disgusting dirt on these Rethugs in Congress. It’s war time – the people against this christo-fascist GOP!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:43 pmI AM SO PROUD OF REPUBLICANS! No longer cowed by the self-righteous indignation of the left.
I can now leave this Earth, knowing Reps are ready and able to stand by their men, good/bad, right/wrong.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 pmIf you promise to leave the Earth, I support that, good/bad, right/wrong.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 pmBut the Dems voted en masse for the $150 Billion for Bush’s crony capitalist war–ever hear of quid pro quo?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pmRobroy – You lifted that entire diatribe from a wingnut source, you even included the “Advertisement” warning from the site. Again, you rely on nothing but typical Republican smears agains the Clintons (one trick ponies that you are) and obfuscation, my response is: whatever dude. You’re an idiot and we’re not buying what you’re selling.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pmSpeaking of MoveOn.Org, does anyone know what happened to the petition that a lot of us signed?
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 pmCongress needs to pull Limbaugh off of AFR.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 pmThat will hurt him, not a bogus vote to condemn him and make him a martyr.
I don’t want my tax dollars going to subsidize his hate speech against the troops.
Democrats are so stupid. I’m voting for Howard Dean. I’ll take a picture to prove it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 pmWhere you been Ryan Neat?
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 pmI can now leave this Earth, knowing Reps are ready and able to stand by their men, good/bad, right/wrong.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — October 2, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
Blinded by loyalty, much? Sheesh. To stand behind “your side” even if they are bad, even if they are wrong, is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness. Blind solidarity is horrific in its implications. Because it is blind.
You can leave this Earth HAPPY to know that your side will stand with solidarity, protecting the good elements, the right elements, the BAD elements and the WRONG elements? That pretty much sums up the shallowness, thoughtlessness and narrow-mindedness of the authoritarian mindset.
Nothing else matters beyond your team winning? Even if evil, wrong, bad, people did evil, wrong, bad things to win? Even if millions are crushed beneath the heel of oppression? Even if millions are treated like chattel? Even if millions are KILLED?
Nice sociopathy, buddy.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 pmSenate Democrats should just go home and let Republicans run the upper chamber unimpeded. At least that would make it crystal clear who gets credit for what is done. Better that than having Republican wishes fulfilled by a “Democratic-controlled Senate” with Democrats voting for the Republican agenda.
I’ve had a bellyful of excuses for weakness, and the 110th Congress is making the Republican dictum of “better to be strong and wrong than weak and right” is sounding better all the time.
Now if I can just figure out how to give up my values of respect for law, civil rights, respect for privacy, fairness, freedom, etc, etc
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 pmBoth the Move On and Rush nonsense is a waste of time! Move On and Rush don’t care what the other side thinks and that is fine. Each organization (I include Rush as a organization simply because of his large ass) has their base and no one from the other side is going to change anyone’s mind. Both cases have been blown out of proportion as usual.
The Fact that Republicans have been demeaning troops is nothing new. That fact that a left wing organization questioned a General in a time of war is not news either. When else are you supposed to question a General except in a time of war. Both sides have gone out of their way to use troops for political gain. Sometimes it has been in honorable terms and others it has been pretty low.
The fact that no Republican signed on to the bill shouldn’t be surprising. The fact that the Democrats let the Move On letter even come up for a vote let alone some of them voting for it is more disturbing than the Rush Limbaugh letter.
The people in this country should be very worried that the Democratic Party has no leadership. That they are easily goaded into stupid and childish arguments that they usually come out of looking even worse than before.
Those of us with any common sense know full well what the Move On add was trying to say and we also know full well what Rush Limbaugh said. We don’t need the idiots in the media trying to stir things up, nor the fake outrage from stupid politicians wasting our time and taxes. We can make or conclusions.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 pmNow if I can just figure out how to give up my values of respect for law, civil rights, respect for privacy, fairness, freedom, etc, etc
Comment by Chuck U. Farley — October 2, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
You’re giving up too soon Chuck. Hang on, we’re not finished yet!
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 pmReid is a weak and ineffectual Senate Majority leader.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 pmWe need to get a new leader. One who is a fighter. One who knows how to bloody the Repub’s nose.
America overwhelmingly rejects the Repub party by a huge majority, yet Reid is behaving like a timid scaredy cat and the Repubs are trampling him and the Democrats.
I want someone who is going to engage the Repubs at their own level, by their own rules, who will start throwing and landing some haymakers.
Reid doesn’t even talk a good game, and his act is even weaker.
Limbaugh is shooting at the messenger. Inspite of his attempts to change the topic, the message is clear- Bush’s illegal war is wrong.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 pmI want someone who is going to engage the Repubs at their own level, by their own rules, who will start throwing and landing some haymakers.
Reid doesn’t even talk a good game, and his act is even weaker.
Comment by OxyCon — October 2, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
i agree… but who?
kennedy would be a true thorn in the repugs sides…
daily show on… see yas…
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm.
kennedy would be a true thorn in the repugs sides…
Comment by katy — October 2, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
Ted is too old and too easy to counter-attack.
Webb has all the cred, but the truth is he is too much of a centrist. He despises Bush, but I think his former life as a Republican keeps him from being a good attack dog.
If Obama fails in his Presidential bid, which looks likely, he could set himself up as a real thorn, especially if Hillary loses in 08. He could rattle and rattle and get all lined up for 12.
Otherwise….there do not seem to be many Lions in the Senate. Politics aside – Harry Reid? C’mon, he is the only guy I can think of that makes Cheney look vivacious. How either of them ever won an election is beyond me.
Is Rahm Emanuel a Rep? He seems like a pretty good in fighter and a true believer.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 amTjhe elected Conservatives should be redefined, in Websters, as organized hypocrisy, because here we have proof that it is..
They are not fiscally conservative or morally conservative. And if they are those two then they cannot be religiously conservative.
The cloak themselves in religion but care not for it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 am.
It’s not bashing the troops when Republicans do it.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 amwhile you complain about whos signing what in the congress how about you take a moment of your own time and enact the national initiative and free yourselves from the dictatorship we’re all living under
http://www.ni4d.us
sign up. Vote. do something besides sit around and complain that congress is not doing the job that you should be doing yourself!
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 amspread the word. 60,000,000 votes is whats needed for us to over ride congress’ subversion of our American right to make our own Laws! screw the rich!
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:45 amDemocrats in Congress fell for the cheese to condemn MoveOn.org and now see they got used by the GOPers who are disgusting hypocrites.
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 amHarry Reid, pwned again! Will you just stop allowing yourself to be out maneuvered every time? Guess why that keeps happening, Harry? It’s because you’re playing prevent defense (and poorly!), not going on offense. You allowed a quick touchdown and fumbled the ensuing kickoff. Now, after an incompletion and two sacks, you’re backed up on your goal and it’s fourth down again. Where are those supoenas? Where are the contempt of congress charges? Where is the power of the purse? Where are all the investigations? You know–your “A-Game”. Oh I see–you’re keeping those in reserve for next season.
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 amyou Republicants got some splainin’ to do!
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:31 amNevermind the Rush little fish story has grown into a huge fable but of all people to mention support and patriotism, Harry Reid.
The same one to say to the troops and the enemy… “I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.”
Yet when General Petraeus speaks…another reknowned Dem. says “the willing suspension of disbelief”
It is like Kennedy giving driving lessons. He will get you half way there but then leave you to save his own rear.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 amI’ll say this for the republicans… they know how to present a united front. Too bad the democrats can’t seem to do anything but back down.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:03 pmI guess this shows just how worthless the Democrats really are.
Or at least who’s side they’re on.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:00 pm