A RANT: Something odd coming from the Dems..

[FromTexas]

I picked up on it last week a couple times, and today I heard Bob Graham doing it. They are answering questions on talking head shows (CNN, FOX, etc...) and they do something like what Bob Graham did... he was asked if it was Bush's or Tenet's fault on the bad intelligence being utilized. He then responds with, "Well, here is what happened. The Washington Post tells us... " WTF?!?! The Washington Post tells us the spin they spin and they validate what they are saying by returning to the Post?!

I have heard this several times in the past week. A Democrat answer with affirmative seeming proof of their attacks based on what the NYT, Post, or some other news place reported. Those places report the stuff the politicians say... and now they use it as if they are validated! I don't want my Senators and Representatives making their decisions and validating what they do based on what the newspapers tell them happened! I hope they are getting their own information from appropriate resources!

Also, Graham tries to argue about them being mislead and states that is because the public intelligence estimate which was released for public consumption did not include everything the classified intelligence estimate had (i.e. showed how there was some disagreement between agencies, etc...). He then goes on to say the classified was released x number of days to the Senators before the public version. So, you got the classified version right? So WTH is the difference if the public version wasn't the same? Oh, thats right. You make decisions based on public news and not your priviliged information!

 

[vraiblonde]

I don't want my Senators and Representatives making their decisions and validating what they do based on what the newspapers tell them happened! I hope they are getting their own information from appropriate resources!

It's pretty sad when a Senator refers to a news source instead of the other way around. But not surprising.

Some politician was on with Brit Hume the other night and he frankly admitted that most of these guys didn't read the report past the introduction summary. So that's just great - they blame Bush because they can't be bothered to do their friggin' jobs.

 

[Larry Gude]

If your party...

...had done NOTHING during two terms in power, one in total control of both Houses along with the White House and then the first tower attack occured and then the Embassies and the USS Cole and the Khobar towers and you'd done NOTHING, in fact turned DOWN the very man who declared war on us in 1997, TURNED down numerous opportunities to take him off the map, then added umpteen UN resolutions to get another bad actor off the world stage and talked through and around the inspectors reports, done, once again, NOTHING to perform your PRIMARY duty, to provide for the common defense, well, I ask you, one and all...

Who would you blame???

 

[FromTexas]

...had done NOTHING during two terms in power, one in total control of both Houses along with the White House and then the first tower attack occured and then the Embassies and the USS Cole and the Khobar towers and you'd done NOTHING, in fact turned DOWN the very man who declared war on us in 1997, TURNED down numerous opportunities to take him off the map, then added umpteen UN resolutions to get another bad actor off the world stage and talked through and around the inspectors reports, done, once again, NOTHING to perform your PRIMARY duty, to provide for the common defense, well, I ask you, one and all...

Who would you blame???

I would blame Tatoo. Never trust a short, squinty eyed man who can't pronounce "the" before plane.

 

[ylexot]

I noticed another thing the Democrats seem to be doing lately...the "I didn't hear what they said, so I can't comment on it" defense. Even if they are read the transcript, they won't comment. I guess it's like plausible deniability...without the plausibility.