September 14, 2006
Hotline After Dark -- "Treason Season"?
The Dems are still outraged about 9/11 and they took the airwaves to make it known:
CNN's Koppel: "What has House Democrats up in arms today is this six-page Republican resolution. It's not the fact that the resolution commemorates the 9/11 attacks that has them so upset, but rather the fact that in their opinion the Republicans are injecting politics into what should be a solemn occasion, by showcasing the Republican led Congress's legislative accomplishments, including renewing the Patriot Act, and also passing the House-backed immigration bill" ("Lou Dobbs Tonight," 9/13).
FNC's Garrett: "The House will pass the president's version of the detainee trial and procedure bill next week, but there is now a full-blown impasse in the Senate and, for the first time, Congressional Republicans in the White House are looking at the reality that this legislation will not be passed before Congress adjourns at the end of this month to campaign for re-election" ("Special Report," 9/13).
Washington Post's Milbank: "I call this treason season. It's the time it happened in 2002, happened 2004, it's
happening again now, when Republicans go around and say, Vote Democrat and die, essentially, that the Democrats are with the terrorists. ... Democrats predictably respond to this by whining and saying, 'that's unfair, and of course we're patriotic,' when in reality, that's just playing into the hands of the Republicans making the charges" ("Countdown," MSNBC, 9/13).
Senate Min. Leader Harry Reid was on the "NewsHour":
On Iraq: "We think it's time the training wheels came off of Iraq. We have spent billions of dollars getting them ready to take care of themselves."
On what Dems can do with a GOPer in the WH: "If we had the majority, we have control of the pocketbook, the purse. That's what our Constitution set up, is that the legislative branch of government controls the money. And this president, during the last six years, has had a carte blanche with this Republican-dominated Congress. He's gotten everything that he's wanted, except stem cell research, the only thing he's vetoed. He hasn't had to veto anything, because they have given him everything he wanted. We basically haven't had a third branch of government."
On Bush's 9/11 speech: "If you look at his speech, all he did was take words that he had given all the previous month in his political speeches -- campaign speeches in Georgia, and other places in the country, exact same words. He had an opportunity, on that night, that solemn occasion, to bring America together, not point fingers -- and that's what he did -- not give a campaign speech. And I thought that it was untoward for him to do that" (PBS, 9/13).
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) was on "AC 360":
Kerry: "The administration took their eye off of Afghanistan, shifted the focus to Iraq, which was not the center of the war of terror. It is Afghanistan. And we are facing enormous problems."
More: "There isn't anybody who can't see, very simply, that the entire focus of the war on terror shifted to Iraq. The fact is that Afghanistan always was the place where it was of greatest intensity. And this shifting has cost us enormously" (CNN, 9/13). [EMILY GOODIN]
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