Lying Liars & the Presidents Who Employ Them

Lying Liars & the Presidents Who Employ Them - Yahoo! News:

"As Karl Rove's comments later demonstrated, however, Durbin's cave was pointless. Speaking to New York's Conservative Party, Rove all but termed Durbin--and every liberal--a traitor:

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11, liberals believed it was time to submit a petition. I am not joking. Submitting a petition is precisely what MoveOn.org did. It was a petition imploring the powers that be to 'use moderation and restraint in responding to the...terrorist attacks against the United States.'...Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: We will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: We must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags and the killing fields of Cambodia. Has there been a more revealing moment this year than when Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, speaking on the Senate floor, compared what Americans had done to prisoners in our control at Guantanamo Bay with what was done by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot--three of the most brutal and malevolent figures in the twentieth century? Let me put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts to the region the words of Senator Durbin, certainly putting America's men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

I saw a documentary regarding Karl Rove. In it, he is depicted as someone who is fairly smart and detailed. That he is a liar is a given. That's nothing new for anyone in politics, and it certainly is within the current track record for Republicans. This article ends pointing out that the times have changed in politics. There is no more working together like we had even in the 80s where then-democrat Phil Gramm worked on Reagan's budget or some sort of economic package. Yeah, those days are dead right now, and if there isn't compromise to achieve an American agenda, as opposed to a strictly Republican agenda, I predict that there will either be a major backlash, or there is going to be some vietnam-style protests to get back lost rights, freedoms, and fairness, and other signs of social strife by non-baby-boomer Americans.