Analysis: Republicans Worry Firings Flap Is Distracting From Their Message, Hurting Bush

Source: AP

Analysis: Republicans Worry Firings Flap Is Distracting From Their Message, Hurting Bush

03-28-2007 4:09 PM
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Republicans say the flap over firing U.S. attorneys is muddling their message and damaging President Bush.

Instead of trumpeting their criticisms that Democrats are meddling in Iraq strategy and raising taxes, GOP lawmakers find themselves fielding questions about embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They put a hefty share of the blame on the White House for flubbing its response to the firings.

"It's a distraction _ there's no question about that. It steps on our message for sure," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.


U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, center, listens to Ernie Allen, left, president and CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as he takes part in a roundtable discussion regarding Project Safe Childhood Wednesday, March 28, 2007 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

"If they had gotten out and started leaning forward on it right away it might have been helpful, because it would have stopped some of the momentum," Thune said of Bush's team.

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the investigations. How about, "the devil made me do it."

Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

... they should not have done the illegal stuff in the first place. They are just 7 year old kids now trying to lie their way out of trouble, while their hand is in the 'cookie jar' - like monkeys, they just won't let go of the cookie :shrug: Curious George only wants to fight with everybody, everywhere - Bad Monkey!!!!!

Yeah. Maybe they shouldn't have tried to pull this shit to begin with, 'eh? But, but, but, we just HAD to have those cookies... They were meant strictly for us, anyway, weren't they?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

needs to be much smaller!

;-)

it's one of them there floor fiddles! :P

boil lancers on the end... :rofl:

"Fuck you if you aren't us"? Do they really live by any other principle?

Their "message" seems to be getting through loud and clear -- their real message anyway.

It didn't seem to work too well back in November...

Who bloody knows what The Great Republican Message is?

:shrug:

wealthy and their honcho underlings, by controlling ownership of all oil sources and other natural resources.

It's plain to see. :eyes:

Bwahahahahahaha

"why the f am I here...this guy's an a--hole"

:puke: :grr:

The coverup, however, is going very badly....(heeeheeeheee)

After all the more people learn about their message the less they like it.

They're sending out a pretty shitty message if you ask me.

Just wait till this stuff really revs up, thugs. You're going to wish you NEVER got into politics. Scumbags.

Is the same message you've been blaring at me for years: Republicans are a corrupt bunch of outlaw motherfuckers who make the Mafia look like pikers by comparison.

Can't see how the "flap" over the subversion of the Department of Justice does anything to "muddle" that message. It's still as plain as plain can be. Were you trying for a new message? Here's my suggestion, free of charge: Call out the corrupt and the crooks from your own party; join the Democrats in trying to bring back some semblance of fairness to government (that whole "of the people, by the people, for the people" thing), and quit being such mean little petty tyrants.

Is that all they have to say for themselves, that they didn't mount a sufficiently belligerent defense?

They still refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. Unreal.

I'm sorry Senator. That's not a message. That's whining.

Isn't that like vandalizing a junk yard?

:shrug:

Now let's kick 'em in the teeth a bunch while they're down, using every Truth as our steel-toed boot.

Let's make this the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

Funny thing is, they did it to themselves.

This is a metaphysical karmic law - the truth will make itself known, and liars and thieves and bullys will eventually get what punishment they deserve.

Most times, justice doesn't happen on the timescale we hope for, but it happens nonetheless.

;-)

You'd never know it. How would this Gonzales flap keep them from getting their message out,even if they did have one? Flapping their gums is what they do the best.
:silly: :silly: :silly:

As for the Rethugs' "message," rest assured that it's coming through loud and clear:

"WE ARE STILL RETHUGS!!!"

:rofl:
rocknation

Or, maybe how Surge Mark V is just a smashing success?

violin! :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

The toxichimp and the albatross! Who could have predicted that?! When gonza was busy defending their WIRETAPS?

I hope the Democratic congress understands what happens when you play defense all of the time. "Instead of trumpeting their criticisms that Democrats are meddling in Iraq strategy and raising taxes, GOP lawmakers find themselves fielding questions about embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales."

Poor.Freakin'.Baby.


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

It sounds like the Pugs need an emergency operation stat!

I think it is highlighting and framing their message quite accurately and clearly.

:evilgrin:

Get bigger American flag lapel pins.

... I wonder if Jeff Gannon/James Guckert is still working for John.

than how things are. :(

War, death, terror, incompetence, deficits...

:sarcasm:

Fucking nazi's!

Instead of trumpeting their criticisms that Democrats are meddling in Iraq strategy and raising taxes, GOP lawmakers find themselves fielding questions about embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They put a hefty share of the blame on the White House for flubbing its response to the firings.

It looks like all of BushCo, not just Sampson and Gonzo, are about to deny they were responsible for the firings so I guess the AG's must've just fired themselves in the middle of corruption cases, etc. :crazy:

concocted by fascist "think tanks" and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies as a plausible narrative for stolen elections. They have never wanted to convince us of anything. They have only wanted to FOOL us into believing that we are not the majority, long enough to steal us blind.

It has been a massive con game.

The great progressive American majority is still here. It has never been not here. It is us--the believers in democracy and social justice and a peaceful world. And if you pay attention to opinion and issue polls, from a broad range of sources, on a broad range of issues, over several years time--as well as other indicators--you find overwhelming evidence that this is true. My two favorite stats are these: 56% of the American people opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, Feb. '03, before the invasion, and before Colin Powell's 100% pack of lies to the UN was fully exposed. They didn't trust Bush, and didn't see the need for a war, way back then. And, 63% of the American people oppose torture "under any circumstances" (May '04).

You will find many stats like this--in fact, an overwhelming case for the progressive values and common sense of the great majority of Americans.

The Republicon "message" of fear (gimme your money), militarism (gimme your money), "family values" (gimme you money), "God and country" (gimme your money). intolerance (gimme your money), hatred (gimme your money), kill for corporate oil (gimme your money and your life), deteriorates, like the "wicked witch of the west," with just a splash of water, and melts into nothing. All it means is GIMME YOUR MONEY. There is nothing else there. It is an artificial concoction of the least democratic and the least beneficial ideas ever promulgated by the strangest people among us, and the rich fascist powermongers among us: pro-war, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, Jesus used as an ikon for killing and torturing Arabs, the president as bully and emperor, and on and on.

My favorite of all of them is one touted by the rightwing 'christian' Chalcedon foundation: the death penalty for homosexuals. Now you may consider this to be truly strange, obsessive and anti-democratic. And it is. But get this: The same rightwing billionaire who gave a million dollars to the Chalcedon foundation was ALSO the initial funder for the electronic voting corporation ES&S, brethren to Diebold. These two corporations "counted" 80% of the votes in 2004, using electronic voting machines and central tabulators that had been fast-tracked across the country by a $3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle appropriated by the Anthrax Congress, and engineered by Tom Delay and Bob Ney (abetted by corporatist/war Democrats like Christopher Dodd). Voting machines and central tabulators run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by these Bushcon corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

That's how this weirdness has been infused into our political system, and made to look "mainstream." But it never was the mainstream of the American people, and never will be. The mainstream of the American people is tolerance, fairness and justice. Ask almost anybody--except this weird minority of monarchists and haters, who have been with us since the 5th century (when the real Christian movement--which was communal and egalitarian--went way wrong). They are always angling for power over the rest of us, and when they get allies like the current Global Corporate Predators who have seized the White House, with its military and police powers, they can be extremely dangerous. These are the people who burn witches at the stake, who rule by torture and repression, and who send tens of thousands off to rape and pillage the length of Europe in the name of Christ, to "liberate" Jerusalem. They are a minority. And they will never be anything else. They cannot gain power in a free society except by corruption, deception and collusion.

And they are not "conservative." They are extreme fascist radicals. The death penalty for homosexuals. I kid you not. That's the sort of people who have been "counting" our votes under a veil of corporate secrecy.

The Republicon "message" is merely a feasible-sounding narrative--which draws upon these horrid tendencies of a tiny minority--to cover up massive theft of money and power. It may USE the psychotic energy of the few "true believers"--to spice up the narrative, and scare the piss out of the rest of us--but it is, essentially, an empty sack. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and their "pod people" in Congress, and their pals at Exxon-Mobile and Halliburton, and the five rightwing billionaire CEOs who now control all our public airwaves and newspapers, have only one belief--their belief in money, and their "right" to have it all. Scratch the surface, and that is their entire "message." Shine just a bit of light on them, and it becomes very apparent why it is so hard to "sell."

Nixon's Souther Strategy has been keeping the coloreds in their right place masked as "Law and Order." Slavery masked as "Traditional Values." The "War on Terror" is a cover for treasury looting.
Liberal is code for Jew. Elitist is code for critical thinkers. Their code is simple. If you're a bigot, vote republican.
By appealing to the worst fears and lowest instincts, they look like the right choice to the primitive mind.
Apparently they didn't get the message last November. It was "thanks, we've heard enough, now go away."
And if the corporate media didn't get our message yet they can eat shit and bark at the moon.

The party of small government
WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS
GOP - We're moral 'n stuff

So many messages, so many lies.

money to billionaires or destroying social programs then keep distracting!

The one where we get Universal Hand Gesture of Complete Contempt(TM)?

the American People have awoken to the carpetbagger shenannigans the Loyal Bushies have put over on us for years. They will not be fooled easily again.

They claim to care about hurting Bush? Interesting, because he doesn't give a damn if he destroys the Republican party to include your careers. Wake up kiddies.

It should hurt the president; it is an impeachable offense.

Is anyone else out there keeping tabs on how the AP and other media moguls quite skillfully language their articles so as to appear neutral while conveying the most biased information possible? Most salient to me here is the Thune quote--blithely trivializing the US Attorney controversy yet again. No matter HOW the administration had tried to spin this one, nothing would have stopped it getting out. This morass is deeper and more foul than most of us knew until Sampson began to sing. What an intriguing song that little canary is singing...