GOP Caught Using Terror News To Fundraise…

Democrats Cry Foul Over New Republican Fundraising Effort Mentioning War on Terrorism

WASHINGTON Aug 11, 2006 (AP)— Democrats assailed the Republicans Friday for e-mailing a fundraising appeal mentioning the war on terror hours after British authorities disclosed they had disrupted a plot to blow up aircraft headed to the United States.

"In the middle of a war on terror, we need to remain focused on furthering Republican ideas more than ever before," former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a letter that asked for donations to the Republican National Committee.

The RNC blamed a low-level staffer for distributing the fundraising appeal, which the party said had been scheduled for release before news of the plot broke.

"Once the RNC learned of this error we ceased distribution of the e-mail," said Tracey Schmitt, a party spokeswoman.

Democrats didn't accept the explanation.

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with a mean streak. He lost me when he chased artists off the streets of the city.

"Thank God George Bush is President." upon seeing people leaping to their deaths from the WTC. Yeah, that's the ticket. Thank God George is president. All Rudy had to do was keep his big mouth shut and he'd be in the running for 08, but he chose to drink the Kool-Aid.

(I don't think so)

he lost me when he ignored warnings for rescue workers to wear real masks.

he was forewarned about "The WTC Cough" but didn't give a damn.

fire depts, police depts and other city offices in a major emergency, resulting in hundreds of deaths of the firefighters who went into the WTC buildings.

I don't get why he's considered such a hero---just because he was out on the streets walking around during the emergency?

in charge of communications on 9-11 and we all know how well that went.

That's why he's considered such a hero. Anyone who stops to think about how things really happened, or asks questions, comes to the conclusion that this is all hype. The Republican Lie Machine works because it doesn't let people stop to think. Fortunately now people are stopping to think anyway.

the republican party is the terror & disaster party ..

What, did you stop feeding the squirrel so as to stop that hit send feature?

Beauty of email, once its gone, its gone. :eyes:

You know how spammers are. They gin up a message then send it out three or four hundred times.

Thanks to the vigilance of the Democrats in calling them on their bullshit, people only got it fourteen times. Party! Woohoo!

It's becoming more and more obvious that, even if this threat is real and I'm still not sure that it is--it's starting to look like the rebirth of Jose Padillo, the dirty-bombless dirty bomber--the timing of this whole thing was calculated for maximum political benefit to the GOP. Didn't the Brits supposedly know about these guys for MONTHS?

Yeah, Karl. I see your filthy slime dripping off this.

the few repukes who did get that email will spam the www with it. Nothing will stop that.

for not buying the bullshit. Hannity and others have been way to gleeful over the latest attack, ironic since they accuse us of being gleeful over every setback in Iraq.

This latest terror alert doesn't prove Bush is right. It proves that he hasn't done shit in 5 and a half years to make us any safer, and in fact the war in Iraq has been a distraction from dealing with international crime and terrorism in any meaningful way. It shows that Al Queda is very resilient. Since we've stopped paying attention to Afghanistan, the Taliban has made quite the comeback. Iraq was always beside the point, and yet we waste our time there.

The only thing you did wrong was get caught, huh?

These fuckpiles make me ill.

terror is his claim to fame, even though it's totally unwarranted.

9-11, made Giuliani and Bush, what would they have been w/o their "magic moment." It's just
obscene that a lot of innocent men, women and children had to die to provide them their
photo op.

Before 9-11 he was a disgraced politician, slivering out of office with his tail between his legs. And for all the undeserved praise heaped on him for 9-11, he didn't do anything Dinkins or Koch or Bloomberg wouldn't have done. He just happened to be mayor when it happened.

I can't believe they can continue to pull the rug over the eyes of any but the 20% koolaid addicts. Everything they've done about this incident has been too blatant for even conservatives to buy into.

Thanks for the catch kpete! Do you ever sleep???

And I saw a picture of Lieberman with Cheney; he looks like the kid who whined for months
to get the toy advertised on Tv only to realize that it's a pile of junk.

works in a pinch.

A few low level bad apples at Abu Graib...

A few staff accoutants at Enron...

A few low level analysts at CIA...

move along....

planned this all along - just as they planned every other convenience during the last six years.

They should be executed for treason! I mean it.

They're such slimeballs.

Don't plan on occupying the White House just yet.

They ruin everything. I don't even know why we keep them on the payroll.

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They keep him on the payroll for exactly this reason.

After all, it's the only card that they have successfully played since that beautiful (at least in the northeast) September day back in 2001.

An RNC "error" - too close to "terror" to be a coincidence.

Much like how they'll never ban the right to choose to keep it as an issue to get the fundies to vote for them, they'll never actively try to stop terrorism. Why else would Osama bin Laden still be "out there" five years after Bush promised to bring him in? They need the boogiemen. Communism turned out to be a dud, after all. Republicanism only cons the public when they have a big bad enemy to fight.

While I'm sure there are some semi-decent Republicans in office, you have to believe that the majority of them were privately thrilled when the towers came down on 9/11.

ETA: I didn't mean to compare the right to choose to terrorism. I'm merely saying they're two huge issues for the Republican base that the Republicans in power could care less about "solving."

I'm SHOCKED, JUST SHOCKED.

I'm certain that the attack is directly linked to the left-wing, Skoros-loving, America-hating liberals who HIJACKED the Democratic Party in Connecticut. (At least that's what clips I heard from Faux today indicated.)

I am so tired of the Repugs exploiting the mess they themselves have created. And as a supporter of Sherrod Brown, I'm happy to hear that he's soft on terror, too. I do believe that's an improvement over Mike DeWine, someone I think is just soft in the head. :puke:

Because we're Kooky Krazy Kookoos.

Message received.

Same old song and dance.

Jackasses.

"had been scheduled for release before news of the plot broke"

That's different than being scheduled for release before they learned of the plot. They just mean they scheduled it before everyone else heard about the plot, which is very different.

And the error? Getting caught, of course.

to expose the corruption, exploitation, arrogance, and ineptitude of the Bush administration.

I couldn't keep up with all of the scandals without your great posts.

The pukes did something stoopid, they got cuaght and the leadership of the Dem party called them on it. GREAT!

:woohoo:

Was Lieberman licking the stamps?

The same people that knew about this for months both coordinate
the announcement of the plot and the fundraising. The timing was
deliberate, not coincidental.

Second: from the news, it sure sounded like a plot had been uncovered.
But now, I'm beginning to wonder. Seeing as how both US and British
authorities knew about his for months, and the danger of liquid explosives
on planes is a topic that has been discussed for YEARS, this, coming before
the 2006 campaign gets underway in earnest, and Republican prospects looking
weak (pre-Diebold, anyway), and an awful lot of "beefed-up security" coupled
with an awfully tiny number of details about this whole episode that caused it,
I just don't know. The whole thing is starting to look extremely convenient
for the Republicans, who love to scream "conspiracy nuts!" every time one of
theirs gets uncovered.

the WH. What is it that the democrats don't understand about being at war? The enemy will do ANYTHING to beat us. The democrats thought the GOPers were kidding, but the damage the neocons have done to our country and the world, damned sure isn't funny.


I remember it well.....

"Republicans declared war on Democrats for 2002 and insist they have a mandate from the voters," says the DNC, citing what it calls a "scathing" memo from Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott after Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the GOP. "This coup of one puts at peril the agenda that Republicans were given a mandate by the American people to deliver," Lott wrote in that memo. "And most importantly," said the dethroned majority leader, "we must begin to wage the war today for the election in 2002. We have a moral obligation to restore the integrity of our democracy, to restore the democratic process, what was changed in the shadows of the back rooms in Washington."

that letter is the bigget bunch of bullshit ever, especially this part.

"We have a moral obligation to restore the integrity of our democracy, to restore the democratic process, what was changed in the shadows of the back rooms in Washington."

why does the GOP take credit for doing such a great job?

A month ago I had my baggage opened and inspected at one airport but not the other. Likewise, they sometimes had me take off my shoes and sometimes didn't. But I don't find the hit-and-miss nature of the inspections as reasuring.

use 911 to try to gain more power. Try to scare people and exaggerate the threat in order to use it to gain power themselves. It is getting so blatantly obvious even a moran could see it.

Lamont wins; Cheney trots out the crap about how that encourages the terrorists and the next day another plot is miraculously exposed.

This is a plot that could have been exposed before, but they save it up for this. Or there is always a group of nutcases somewhere starting a crazy plot. This plot was not even operational.

And there is no problem with it being the British. It is the leaders who are all hanging out together with the same agenda. Get more power. That doesn't take a tinfoil hat. That is human nature that the Founding Fathers were aware of and the reason they set up the government the way they did. And they made plenty of comments about how foreign entanglement was the biggest threat.

it sounds like they busted a group of friends telling joke's with no real means of carrying out a terrorist act. I wounder if the "terrorist" are even real people. the whole thing just seems made up.

like getting rid of the estate tax and banning gay marriage.

That will show those terrorists!

if you see what I mean?

usually "middle" means at the half-way mark. So, we must be almost done with this war on terror. :silly:

Now....someone please enlighten me about, "...a war on terror." It sounds so ambiguous. Are there to be more wars on terror? :sarcasm:

The Bush administration is claiming that a memo from Pakistan ordered "do it now" so the arrests had to be made immediately.

But that may not be the case.

We now learn that the British wanted to wait at least another week before making any arrests. Why? Lack of evidence. They have no bomb making material. No airline tickets. Really no evidence that this was any more than a bunch of bravado talk. The British have already released one of those it arrested. Because of moving prematurely the British may not be able to make a case against any of the suspects, resulting in their release.

The politicans need to back off and let law enforcement do their job. As it is, we may never know how serious this threat may have been or whether it is just another cry wolf by the Bush administration.

I saw it on the NBC nightly news but now we have this.

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