Republicans were apoplectic a few months ago when Sen. Russ [tag]Feingold[\/tag] (D-Wis.) suggested a [tag]congressional[\/tag] [tag]censure[\/tag] is warranted for George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag]. Some have even used the censure resolution in a campaign context, arguing that Dems will push the measure if they take back the congressional majority.<\/p>\n
As conservatives see it, one would have to be out of his or her mind to believe that the president should be [tag]censure[\/tag]d. Well, that is, at least as far as this<\/i> [tag]president[\/tag] is concerned.<\/p>\n
A group called “Move America Forward” is anxious to look backwards with a major new campaign: [tag]Censure Jimmy Carter[\/tag]<\/a>. A message from the group to supporters explained yesterday:<\/p>\n We have our “Censure Jimmy Carter” [tag]TV ads[\/tag] debuting on [tag]CNN[\/tag] [between 12:00 Noon and 4:00 PM Eastern \/ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific] and Headline News [from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Eastern \/ 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific]. The ads will be seen on these channels NATIONWIDE.<\/p>\n Simultaneously we will have “Censure Jimmy Carter” Internet Ads displayed throughout the week (starting Monday) on http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/ and http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/ as well as http:\/\/www.HumanEventsOnline.com If you don’t see our ad on these websites, just check back with that website a little later – our ads will “rotate” with those of other advertisers…<\/p>\n Additionally, this Sunday, May 21st we will have a “Censure Jimmy Carter” ad delivered with Newsmax’s daily news briefing to 350,000 subscribers to Newsmax’s service.<\/p>\n When all is said and done, several MILLION people will see our message about the need for Congress to take action to condemn Jimmy Carter’s efforts to undermine American foreign policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n By way of C&L<\/a> we see that Max Blumenthal<\/a> reported a couple of months ago about [tag]Move America Forward[\/tag]’s unethical conduct, and Matt Stoller<\/a> argued persuasively that the FEC should crack down on the group’s nonsense, but after seeing the ad and hearing MAF demand that Congress “stand up to Jimmy [tag]Carter[\/tag],” I’m kind of left feeling sorry for these guys. The anti-Carter campaign is, well, rather pathetic.<\/p>\n I mean really, what’s the point of mocking a group which, in all seriousness, launches an expensive ad campaign on the premise of a congressional censure of Jimmy Carter? What, did these guys run out of attacks on Clinton?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Republicans were apoplectic a few months ago when Sen. Russ [tag]Feingold[\/tag] (D-Wis.) suggested a [tag]congressional[\/tag] [tag]censure[\/tag] is warranted for George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag]. Some have even used the censure resolution in a campaign context, arguing that Dems will push the measure if they take back the congressional majority. As conservatives see it, one would have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}