Does the new Republican meme mean another attack is nigh?

[Clark2008]

The Republican Media Machine has lately been abuzz with rhetoric that lays any future terrorist attacks at the feet of liberals.

Both Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto are in on the attack:

Neil Cavuto Echoes Limbaugh: Democrats Will be Responsible if We're "Hit Again"

This morning (June 17, 2005), as I was preparing this post, I heard a tape of Rush Limbaugh saying, in essence, that if there is another terrorist attack it will be the Democrats fault. (Here is a transcript. Scroll down a bit to the shaded box in the middle of the screen.) After I heard that, the questions Neil Cavuto asked Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during a Thursday (June 16, 2005) segment on Your World w/Neil Cavuto held new meaning.

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/06/17/neil_cavuto_echoes_limbaugh_democrats_will_be_responsible_if_were_hit_again.php

And we've seen threads of Freepers picking up on the meme.

The Bush Administration, with its sinking numbers and questions about the Downing Street Minutes now making the mainstream, is backed into a corner.

And, the last time it was backed into a corner, we had 9/11.

Do I need to get my :tinfoilhat: a break or am I a little too close for comfort?

[Cha]

1. Well, Meme it right back in their

Filthy faces..If we have ANOTHER ATTACK..it will be their FAULT, AGAIN!

Only this time..there is going to be a FUCKING INVESTIGATION!

Two can play that fucking game!

[Clark2008]

3. Sounds like a good plan to me

But can we get the corporate whores over at the media to join along?

[Cha]

4. No, but the Dems as a whole

can stand tougher together like some of us on DU do :P

[Skittles]

2. right now they are cornered rats

people are starting to question things - can't be good for those fascist assholes - I believe they will do anything to divert attention

[spartan61]

5. During the campaign last year,

didn't bush/cheney tell us that if Kerry wins we would be attacked? Now that they have "won," why would another attack be the Democrats fault? They can't have it both ways.

[Arugula Latte]

6. In Republicanland, everything is Clinton/Kerry/liberals' fault

and our Dear Leader is always correct. Didn't you know that?

[thinkingwoman]

7. they can try

to blame a hypothetical future attack on moon men if they want but it won't matter. Everyone who isn't party of their moonie/loonie base will blame them because they are firmly in charge of 2 out of 3 branches of gov't.

[Pryderi]

8. Time to turn public opinion around....?

He Defends Effort in Iraq, Opposes Setting Pullout Date

By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 24, 2005; Page A01

Worry in Congress about the course of U.S. strategy in Iraq boiled over yesterday into a scalding attack on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and some of the toughest questioning of the Pentagon leader since the war in Iraq began.

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In the day's most dramatic confrontation, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), a leading critic of the Iraq campaign, told Rumsfeld that the war has become a "seeming intractable quagmire." He recited a long list of what he called "gross errors and mistakes" in the U.S. military campaign and concluded with a renewed appeal for Rumsfeld to step down.

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Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) warned, "I fear that American public opinion is tipping away from this effort."

If there is such tipping among Americans, Rumsfeld allowed, "I have a feeling they're getting pushed" -- an apparent reference to unfavorable news coverage and political commentary. Rumsfeld expressed confidence that support would rebound.
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