Conyers on Hillary: Right Wing Blames the Messenger

[ProSense]

Blogged by JC on 01.17.06 @ 07:32 PM ET

Hillary Speaks -- Right Wing Blames the Messenger
Well they are at it again. Hillary Clinton spoke at her MLK Day speech -- referring to the Bush Administration as "one of the worst" in history, and comparing the...


Well they are at it again. Hillary Clinton spoke at her MLK Day speech -- referring to the Bush Administration as "one of the worst" in history, and comparing the House of Representatives to a "plantation." Instead of responding to the factual assertions, the right wing attacked the messenger, deriding her language, and ignoring the fundamental problem.

This is part of a pattern -- when the President lied to us about the Iraq-Niger connection, they blamed Joe Wilson; when the NSA warrantless spying program was made public, they argued that the whistleblowers were the problem; when 122 Members asked Bush about the Downing Street Minutes, they said we didn't matter, since I was against the war; when Howard Dean told the truth about Iraq they said he was extreme; when we complained about the PATRIOT Act, we were called unpatriotic. The list goes on and on. We now have a Republican party steeped in abuse and corruption, and the best they can do is ignore the problems they have created for this country and blame the Democrats for pointing out the obvious.

I don't always agree with Hillary, but she spoke the truth yesterday, and the Republicans need to address her charges head on instead of attacking her personally.

Also, I note this excellent Kos Diary on more evidence of fraud in the Ohio presidential election -- I'm glad people have not given up on this issue, I haven't.


http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000355.htm

[wiley]

1. Yes, there is even a particularly negative DU thread about Hillary

right now. Is there a need for this? She did a good thing. If anyone disagrees with what she said, fine. Otherwise spew the bile elsewhere. It's just not helping anyone but the Repukes.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Some People Can't See Through Their Own Bitterness To Find The Voice Of

reason.

Any dem should be applauding what she did yesterday. It was an incredible speech and she should be encouraged to keep it up, not criticized for the sake of criticizing.

[marmar]

2. As usual, JC is on point...

I can't wait until the day when the public no longer falls for this tired right wing act.

[snippy]

3. Someone should post Gingrich's "plantation" comment about democrats

from 1994 and ask whether republicans reacted to that comment in the same way. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/17/gingrich-plantation/

[ProSense]

5. No they didn't and Paul Begala pointed out they didn't react

when she said it the first time when they were in the process of changing the ethics rules to protect DeLay:

AMERICAN MORNING

Aired November 18, 2004 - 07:00 ET

snip...

CLINTON: Well, what can I say? It's just so typical. I mean, they're running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom Delay, you know, in charge of the plantation. I think it's kind of a sad commentary. I don't think it's good for Democracy. I don't think it's good for the Republican Party. But again, I don't have a vote in the Republican caucus in the House; they'll decide what they want to do, but one would hope that they would not be so quick to change the rules when it affects their leader. They certainly wanted to apply the harshest of rules to Democratic leaders for so many years.


http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/18/ltm.01.html

[NYFlip]

6. I live in NY and called her office

I told the aide I thought her speech was great and she should keep up the good work. She said she'd pass it on. I asked if she's been getting lots of positive feedback and she said yes.

[NoFederales]

7. Senator Clinton spoke well yesterday as dressed down the Bush administrati

She should take care to do so more often. There is no shortage of hard words that need saying.

VP Gore and Ohio Senatorial candidate Paul Hackett are all on message.

We need more voices to add to those of Congressman Conyers to keep rocking the Bush Administration.

NoFederales