Beyond Barney; Democrats are Regular Disrememberers
It’s not just Barney. It’s common practice for Democrats to disremember (yes it’s a real word) their past statements and actions when it suits their political interest.
While main leading Democrats are eager to prosecute Bush Administration officials for “torture” because they wanted to waterboard a few high-value terrorism suspects in order to prevent future attacks on our country and citizens, they conventiently forget that they were briefed on the very topic shortly after 9/11 and raised no objections.
As Porter Goss, then c hairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence reminds us, “On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.” No wonder he finds that, “A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill.”
In their zeal to “get” Republicans, they forget their own past support of programs they now lambaste their partisan adversaries for supporting.
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well, I suppose this post is going to be deleted but I was following links from porter goss’s rediculous justification and cya for his own crimes and came to this board
your defense of his claims are even more rediculous then his claims
““On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.“
so this means somehow to you and to porter that they can….DESTROY OUR NATIONAL SECURIT?
remove our ability to broker treaties?
remove our ability to gather actionable inteligence?
do you somehow think this is a blank check?
*where do these people come up with this garbage*?
“In their zeal to “get†Republicans, they forget their own past support of programs they now lambaste their partisan adversaries for supporting.”
in case you didn’t know it, those “on the left” want democrats prosecuted as much (if not more) then they want republicans
you guys spewing the talking poionts from these criminals need to get out more
Comment by the liberal on the board — April 25, 2009 @ 4:28 pm - April 25, 2009
*sniff sniff*
new troll, or old troll in a new skin?
Anyway, the issue is if the boosh boogyman you fight in your dreams was all this evil you say, then it was bipartisan. The liberals are cowards, running from a ‘demon’ they had a hand in creating pointing to the hand in the cookie jar while ignoring the crumbs on their own faces.
Don’t worry, Bruce and Dan won’t delete this post, it’s too good an example of liberal rantings.
Comment by The_Livewire — April 25, 2009 @ 5:24 pm - April 25, 2009
in case you didn’t know it, those “on the left†want democrats prosecuted as much (if not more) then they want republicans
Then go to it. Pelosi is there, Reid is there, and both of them were clearly present. Heck, Obama himself has continued the Bush administration policies that you dislike so much.
For what are you waiting?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 25, 2009 @ 5:45 pm - April 25, 2009
This goes to show why this “prosecution” and “truth commission” crap likely isn’t going to get very far: Pelosi, Reid, et. al. already know that they’re facing a world of legal hurt if anybody actually gets indicted. If or, more likely, when they’re forced to testify under oath in court, they’ll look like politically-expedient idiots if they tell the truth. Conversely, if they lie then they’ll quickly be facing trials of their own for perjury.
Either way, they’re screwed. Deeeeeeeeliciousssssssss!
Comment by MarkJ — April 25, 2009 @ 6:27 pm - April 25, 2009
I say bring on the investigations. Lets get Pelosi, Reid, et al, under oath and on record. They will never allow these hearing because they know they will have to either tell the truth or perjure themselves. As MarkJ says, either way, they are screwed. But I would love to see San Fran Nan make an idiot of herself on national TV.
Comment by John in Dublin, CA — April 25, 2009 @ 8:16 pm - April 25, 2009
Though I agree with your post, I want to point out that disremembering is not limited to the democrats. Both sides do it, did it, and will do it again in the future.
Comment by MichaelK — April 26, 2009 @ 1:01 am - April 26, 2009
Dan, I haven’t posted anything in all the Barney Frank posts, because, to be honest with you, I really haven’t followed this closely. And even if I did, I’m not sure I would understand all the complexities of what went on. So I don’t have an opinion of Barney Frank regarding the current mess. So let me concede here that everything you said about Barney Frank is correct. That he should get plenty of blame for the mortgage crisis, etc. That he continues to deny wrongdoing, and wrongly blames others. That his failing to disclose his relationship at the time with a bigwig of Fannie Mae (or Freddie Mac) was unethical and/or illegal.
So assuming all that is true, my problem is still not with Barney Frank, although he would be deserving of all the blame that you suggest he deserves. And I think this post is starting to get to the real problem. Frank is one of 435 Representatives in the House. The fact that the rules in both houses in Congress to allow a member to have an extremely high disproportionate amount of power is wrong, and needs to be changed. It doesn’t matter to me that he is the chair of the Finanacial Services committee. His voice, his votes, etc., should not have any more weight than the other 434 Representatives.
If that was the case, then it wouldn’t have mattered how stupid Frank was regarding the issue, who he dated three years ago, when perhaps more oversight should have occurred, or how much an egomaniac Frank is.
Anytime we allow one person in Congress to set policy we’re in for trouble. It obviously didn’t work with Frank’s power regarding this issue. It didn’t work in the Senate all those years when blowhard Robert Byrd was given the power he had to derail policy. Why on earth isn’t this problem addressed first, before in another year or two, we start blaming one single Congressman for another failed policy? If it’s because that Congress has no intention of changing the rules, then I say that all 535 members of Congress are equally to blame for any failed policy. In fact, I hold all 535 members of Congress equally for the mortgage crisis.
Comment by Pat — April 26, 2009 @ 7:47 am - April 26, 2009
“In their zeal to “get†Republicans, they forget their own past support of programs they now lambaste their partisan adversaries for supporting.”
And don’t expect the DNC MSM to helpfully remind them of it, either. They always cover for one of their own.
However, if it were a Republican in that situation, it would lead all the evening telecasts and be “above the fold” for those damned newspapers.
Scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites all.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 26, 2009 @ 9:10 pm - April 26, 2009
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