White House: Congress Caving To ‘The Fantasies Of Left-Wing Bloggers’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/14/wh-bloggers-congress/

White House: Congress Caving To ‘The Fantasies Of Left-Wing Bloggers’


The White House has experienced difficulties moving its ill-conceived national security priorities through Congress. Yesterday, the Senate passed legislation banning waterboarding, defying a Bush veto threat. Also, House leaders have said they will not approve the Protect America Act with immunity for telecom companies.

After the Senate banned waterboarding yesterday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino claimed the “left wing” was trying to overtake the intelligence community:

They’ll have to ask themselves, ‘Do you trust the intelligence community more than you trust Democrats who are beholden to their left-wing?‘ And that’s the debate that this country is going to have.

Perino also attacked Congress for holding a contempt of Congress vote on White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers instead of expanding Bush’s surveillance powers:

The American people will find it baffling that on a day that House leaders are trying to put off passing critical legislation to keep us safer from the threat of foreign terrorists overseas, they are spending scarce time to become the first congress in history to bring contempt charges against a president’s chief of staff and lawyer. … The ‘people’s House’ should reflect the priorities of the American people, not the fantasies of left-wing bloggers.

The line is a familiar one. When the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington revealed that the White House had destroyed millions of e-mails, Perino shrugged them off as the accusations of a “left-wing” group — but she later backtracked.

Congress’s priorities are reflected by the will of the public. A recent CNN poll showed that 68 percent of Americans said waterboarding was torture, and 58% said the U.S. should not use the technique. A January ACLU poll found 57 percent of likely voters opposed telecom immunity, compared to just a third who supported it.

And yet who doesn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was be using the word "intelligence?"

crusade, crusade, crusade.

and Perino lives in a fantasy land?

Yep I think I got it. :)

Right back at 'cha, dude.

,...and throw their fit 'cause when those lawsuits go through THEY ARE SCREWED!!

:rofl:

We are the people too.

She's worse then Ari ever was, she makes Goebbels look like a moderate!!!!

...do I trust the people who lied us into Iraq...or do I trust the people who exposed the lies....

Oh, my...this early in the morning and such tough choices!

:sarcasm:

wing nutteries, thugs, and wind bags? They walked out on America yesterday.

‘Do you trust the intelligence community more than you trust Democrats who are beholden to their left-wing?

Fact ATT started spying in Feb. 2001 so why didn't they catch on about the attack
coming up on 9/11/2001.


The ‘people’s House’ should reflect the priorities of the American people, not the fantasies of left-wing bloggers.

Fact In Ohio 2004 Kerry's phone lines and computers were hacked and blocked. On 11/3/04 a democratic
election crimes/fraud hot line was blocked ..... it played creepy music and wouldn't let you get through to
a lawyer to report any problems the block was replaced by a fast busy signal after Kerry conceded.

They refuse to believe the sixteen Intelligence agencies that released the NIE about Iran and it's attempts to aquire nukes. Republicans even went so far as to advocate an investigation into the Intelligence communities for political cause..Perino certainly has some nerve..

:applause:

This is how they marginalize majority opinion.

not the fantasies of right-wing religious extremists.

foreign in your mouth.

Was that remark scripted or did she just make it up in her (air) head?

drug-induced, or anorexic demented ramblings of the reich-winger media personalities?

and our representatives (look that word up if you're uncertain of its meaning) are actually representing us. Funny that.