Trog's been here all morning claiming the Democrats are just as culpable. I am sick of this kind of obfuscation in the face of a scandal by the Right. According to Trog, because some right wing website said that the Democrats covered up we should believe the Democrats were involved in the cover-up. For the last six years the one thing the Democrats have consistently demonstrated is that they had become completely incompetent politically. So as I said earlier when Damocles proposed the same theory. If they actually held this and brought it out at this particular time--good for them. It shows they are finally playing hardball politics, the same kind that the Republicans have been playing for six years under Karl Rove.
The Speaker of the House knew about this and said nothing. In fact, he knew if press reports are to be believed, about this in 2005. If press reports are to believed the number two man in the Republican leadership also knew about it. They could have defanged this wolf by coming clean. They are the leadership and they are responsible. If the top Republican leadership in the House knew about this for nearly a year and said nothing whatsoever about it then we can only believe that they are ultimately responsible for the actions of their fellow Party members. If the press reports are to be believed then the Republican leadership knew about this and did nothing. If the Democrats were able to get the child to report this to the St Petersburg newspaper which I think first broke this story then good for them. But apparently press didn’t get the story from the Democrats they got the story from the kid who had the emails. So one would have to show how the kid was handled by the Democrats to get the story to the press. Maybe the kid just decided to release the story to the press now on his own, because he figured this would have the most impact now. Maybe the kid is a Democrat. So what????
The Republican leadership in the House knew about it since '05 and said and did nothing about it. But according to some right wing web sites we are being now told through Trog, it is the Democrats fault, and it is they who are culpable for letting this happen and for protecting the abuser. Meanwhile, even today the Republicans in the White House are claiming that there was no call for alarm because after all might have been nothing "more than simply naughty e-mails." Hey, Trog you can’t have it both ways. There is either no reason to get exited about this scandal or the Republicans should have known better and did something about it. But if the Democrats knew no more or even less than the Republicans how could they have been to blame?
Trog’s argument and those arguments of others like him, here is the same argument that Rush Limbaugh used when he started claiming that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster. I’m not saying she did it or had anything to do with it but this information is out there and I think we should look at it. Then for a year he kept talking about all the evidence that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were culpable in Vince Foster’s suicide. Because if somebody says it must be true or at least worthy of discussion, and we have to look at every angle. Too bad nobody concocted a website that claimed the Republicans killed Vince Foster to blame it on the Clinton’s.
Funny how such a scandal which could cause serious damage to the Republicans control of Congress is now being painted as a Democratic problem by a person who claims to be a libertarian. Funny how these libertarian types run to the defense of their buddies in the Republican party whenever they see the Republicans leadership seriously threatened by a scandal. Remember the Jack Abramoff scandal, at first that was all about Republicans but then the right started saying "the Democrats did it, too" and soon the right had so effectively painted a few Democrats who took money from people who gave money to Abramoff, that is, Abramoff never gave a cent to Democrats but some people who supported and gave money to him did, that it was soon being said everywhere that the Democrats took money from Abramoff and then it was all painted as a bi-partisan scandal. So Ya, I am sure that this is the same thing going on here. Crank up that Right wing spin machine and spin it left. And good so-called libertarians will spend all day spinning for you... That Trog is here going after this shows me just how serious the right wing really thinks this is.... Perhaps he can't really believe or handle the fact that his Republican party can be this screwed up...
The Speaker of the House knew about this and said nothing. In fact, he knew if press reports are to be believed, about this in 2005. If press reports are to believed the number two man in the Republican leadership also knew about it. They could have defanged this wolf by coming clean. They are the leadership and they are responsible. If the top Republican leadership in the House knew about this for nearly a year and said nothing whatsoever about it then we can only believe that they are ultimately responsible for the actions of their fellow Party members. If the press reports are to be believed then the Republican leadership knew about this and did nothing. If the Democrats were able to get the child to report this to the St Petersburg newspaper which I think first broke this story then good for them. But apparently press didn’t get the story from the Democrats they got the story from the kid who had the emails. So one would have to show how the kid was handled by the Democrats to get the story to the press. Maybe the kid just decided to release the story to the press now on his own, because he figured this would have the most impact now. Maybe the kid is a Democrat. So what????
The Republican leadership in the House knew about it since '05 and said and did nothing about it. But according to some right wing web sites we are being now told through Trog, it is the Democrats fault, and it is they who are culpable for letting this happen and for protecting the abuser. Meanwhile, even today the Republicans in the White House are claiming that there was no call for alarm because after all might have been nothing "more than simply naughty e-mails." Hey, Trog you can’t have it both ways. There is either no reason to get exited about this scandal or the Republicans should have known better and did something about it. But if the Democrats knew no more or even less than the Republicans how could they have been to blame?
Trog’s argument and those arguments of others like him, here is the same argument that Rush Limbaugh used when he started claiming that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster. I’m not saying she did it or had anything to do with it but this information is out there and I think we should look at it. Then for a year he kept talking about all the evidence that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were culpable in Vince Foster’s suicide. Because if somebody says it must be true or at least worthy of discussion, and we have to look at every angle. Too bad nobody concocted a website that claimed the Republicans killed Vince Foster to blame it on the Clinton’s.
Funny how such a scandal which could cause serious damage to the Republicans control of Congress is now being painted as a Democratic problem by a person who claims to be a libertarian. Funny how these libertarian types run to the defense of their buddies in the Republican party whenever they see the Republicans leadership seriously threatened by a scandal. Remember the Jack Abramoff scandal, at first that was all about Republicans but then the right started saying "the Democrats did it, too" and soon the right had so effectively painted a few Democrats who took money from people who gave money to Abramoff, that is, Abramoff never gave a cent to Democrats but some people who supported and gave money to him did, that it was soon being said everywhere that the Democrats took money from Abramoff and then it was all painted as a bi-partisan scandal. So Ya, I am sure that this is the same thing going on here. Crank up that Right wing spin machine and spin it left. And good so-called libertarians will spend all day spinning for you... That Trog is here going after this shows me just how serious the right wing really thinks this is.... Perhaps he can't really believe or handle the fact that his Republican party can be this screwed up...
