GOP Gone Wild
1. Senator John Cornyn (R. Tex) in a press release prior to an appellate court nominee hearing made the following statement referring to “liberals”: “There are some who want to end traditional marriage between only one man and one woman." This obviously refers to same sex marriage, which its opponents usually claim will threaten marriage between a man and a woman. Of course that claim is always an assertion that no one making it has ever explained. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how the marriage of two same sex individuals, who I know or don’t know, has any bearing on my marriage.
But now Cornyn has taken it one step further. The end of traditional marriage? They will go to any excess to further their cultural wedge politics. It doesn’t matter how extreme or how baseless the accusation.
2. Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld in speaking of the mistaken intelligence leading to the Iraq 2003 invasion, said "It turns out it was wrong, that intelligence.” But he then said it was the same information that was available to members of Congress and other nations. This is the justification the Administration trots out every time they are forced to discuss Iraq. But it is just another in the continuous series of lies and contradictions they feed to the public. On Sept. 8, 2002, Vice President Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that those who doubted his assertions about the threat posed by Iraq had not "seen all the intelligence that we have seen."
Are they just so desperate to explain their deteriorating position that they manufacture what sounds like a good explanation to fit the current criticism without even bothering to see if they are contradicting past statements? Or do they just believe that no one is smart enough to realize what they are doing?
But now Cornyn has taken it one step further. The end of traditional marriage? They will go to any excess to further their cultural wedge politics. It doesn’t matter how extreme or how baseless the accusation.
2. Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld in speaking of the mistaken intelligence leading to the Iraq 2003 invasion, said "It turns out it was wrong, that intelligence.” But he then said it was the same information that was available to members of Congress and other nations. This is the justification the Administration trots out every time they are forced to discuss Iraq. But it is just another in the continuous series of lies and contradictions they feed to the public. On Sept. 8, 2002, Vice President Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that those who doubted his assertions about the threat posed by Iraq had not "seen all the intelligence that we have seen."
Are they just so desperate to explain their deteriorating position that they manufacture what sounds like a good explanation to fit the current criticism without even bothering to see if they are contradicting past statements? Or do they just believe that no one is smart enough to realize what they are doing?
posted by John Weiss at 2:41 PM
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