{"id":8644,"date":"2006-10-03T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8644.html"},"modified":"2006-10-03T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:19:06","slug":"anyone-want-to-hear-bushs-latest-attack-on-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/anyone-want-to-hear-bushs-latest-attack-on-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone want to hear Bush’s latest attack on Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, the president made some headlines by lashing out<\/a> at Democrats with some unusually bitter rhetoric. “We know the enemy wants to attack us again,” Bush said, whereas Democrats “offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing.”<\/p>\n

It was an odd time for the president to question Dems on national security — we had just learned that that the war in Iraq is making the terrorist threat worse<\/i> not better — but Bush seemed to enjoy it. He tried to turn up the overheated rhetoric a little further<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

President Bush, on a campaign swing in the West, is telling voters that the Democratic Party is weak-kneed on national security and shouldn’t be trusted to hold the reins of Congress.<\/p>\n

“If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party, it sounds like — it sounds like — they think the best way to protect the American people is, wait until we’re attacked again,” Bush said Monday at a $360,000 fundraiser in Reno, Nev.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The funny thing, at least to me, is that no one seems to care. Dems didn’t fire back, no press releases were issued, and most progressive blogs barely lifted an eyebrow. Bush’s comments barely registered. In most instances, allowing attacks to go by without a response is a mistake, but in this case, it’s kind of amusing.<\/p>\n

In a way, it makes Bush appear small.
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\nThe president says controversial things like this to get attention. Given the week thus far, Dems have better things to do than worry about whether ol’ George is calling them names again. You can almost hear Dems saying, “That’s nice, Mr. President, but we have an election to worry about.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, if you’re plotting the Dems’ strategy right now, where, exactly, would Bush’s demagoguery fall today? With Foley, Rice, Frist, and Woodward dominating, who cares whether the president thinks Dems are “trustworthy”?<\/p>\n

I almost expect Bush to mention how he’s still relevant.<\/p>\n

“Hello? Don’t you understand? Dems are weak! Doesn’t anybody want to hear me say mean things about the Democrat Party?”<\/p>\n

“Is this thing on?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, the president made some headlines by lashing out at Democrats with some unusually bitter rhetoric. “We know the enemy wants to attack us again,” Bush said, whereas Democrats “offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing.” It was an odd time for the president to question Dems on national security — we […]<\/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-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","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=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}