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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember when GOP said "criticizing the President during wartime" gave "aide & comfort" to enemies?
I thought I must have been dreaming since Ari Fleischer was on the tee-vee saying he "couldn't remember" such a thing ever happening when Dems criticized Bush...
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/gop-dissent-attacks.html
After Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said "the direction [in Iraq] has got be changed or it is unwinnable," Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said Democrats are "basically giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Similarly, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush an "incompetent leader," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) said Pelosi "apparently is so caught up in partisan hatred for President Bush that her words are putting American lives at risk."
MANY more examples at the link.....
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Agreed... They can't handle criticism but love dishing it out.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)They only matter when there is a Democratic President.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Most especially rules THEY institute..Everyone knows this....SHHHEEEESH!!
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)get in step there, or people will think you aren't a good member of the collective!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
progressoid
(49,999 posts)That's when we were at war....err....well....I mean....it's just different now.
So there. Nya nya nya.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)all their pompous-ass pronouncements are coming back to bite them where the sun don't shine now .
jillan
(39,451 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Tom Delay, isn't he some kind of criminal now?
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)No....Hell no......Only if you adhere to accepted conventional wisdom,consider hard evidence or accept as legitimate decisions by judge and jury.....That simply is not realistic.....
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Welcome to DU!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Ian_rd
(2,124 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)iokiyar
elleng
(131,103 posts)Posted 'Politics stops at the water's edge yesterday,' but was hoping to see much more on the subject.
oldsarge54
(582 posts)Only that now the nattering nabobs of negativity are Republicans?
Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)if they wanted to deregulate the amount of crape companies were putting into hot dogs and you opposed it you were a scumsucking terrorist enabler.
We had a local row officer in county government ball about having opposition during a time of war.
I said ALL that Commander in Chief! and no opposition to the president when troops are in the field crape would end in January of 2009 two years before, and it ended with a very silent thud when President Obama was sworn in.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)But in this country that bridge was crossed long ago. Both Johnson and Nixon were criticized during the Vietnam war and that pattern has continued until this day. Nobody cares anymore, it has become just another political talking point.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Hell yea, I remember.
Now the shoe is on the other foot and they don't want to play along.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)"Criticizing a republican President during wartime gives aide & comfort to the enemy."
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)You can always count on republican hypocrisy.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Good times.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)The hypocrisy and hubris of the modern day republican party knows no bounds.
kathman-duzi
(82 posts)Double down Lie and keep rolling backward.
This is why irony is lost on the Republicans and hypocrisy is their standard.