If you had any doubt of the shamelessness of Republicans, the following report should end any such questions. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow details how, in 2006, at the exact same moment Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was publicly sliming Democrats for their push for a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, he was privately and directly requesting to George W. Bush that he remove troops in hopes of retaining control of the U.S. Congress in the run-up to the midterm elections.
Got that? McConnell was cynically, and hypocritically, accusing Dems of putting this nation at a national security risk for what he described as their interest in “cutting and running,” “retreat,” and “waving a white flag” in Iraq, even as he was privately pleading with Bush to bring troops home for purely — and entirely — partisan political reasons.
All of that, as learned via a revelation from George W. Bush’s new book, Decision Points. McConnell has failed to deny the allegation, and the Senator’s hometown paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, decries the new revelation as “contemptible hypocrisy and obsessive partisanship that have come to mark the senator’s time in office.” From their editorial late this week:
As Maddow explains, the paper is calling for an explanation — as should all Americans…
Ha, Party before country. And he looks like one of these guys. The video is ridiculous as well. Shame on you, guys!
How about: “Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during meeting in New York that the new GOP majority in the House will ‘serve as a check’ on the Obama administration, a statement unusual for its blunt disagreement with U.S. policy delivered directly to a foreign leader.”
What charges could be brought here … assuming … all the hopeless assumptions starting with: Have ANY of Bush’s US attorney(s) for New York been replaced ?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_11/026624.php
You’ve got to give McConnell credit. He is effective at his job.
Granted he views his responsibilities as serving the Republican Party. No one (including citizens, soldiers, or sense of country) is going to get in his way.
@william. Speaking of looking at guys. McConnell has always reminded me of a basset hound. Am I the only one that sees this?