Wingnuts In A Lather Because Democrats Are Accurately Describing Iraq Report As Work Of White House

[CatWoman]

Really, you couldn't ask for a more perfect postcript to the whole battle over what to call the "Petraeus report" than this. Just unreal.

For a day or so now the wingnut media and bloggers have gone all deep purple with feigned outrage at Congressional Democrats because of the way they've been talking about the Iraq report that's due to be delivered to Congress next week. What's the beef these wingers have?


Well, they literally appear to be angry with Democrats because they're describing the report accurately as the work of the White House, and not General Petraeus.


No kidding. The outrage kicked into gear yesterday when The Washington Times published this piece, which accused Dem leaders such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi of seeking to "undermine" Petraeus' credibility by calling the forthcoming assessment the "Bush report."


The piece was linked on Drudge and a bunch of winger bloggers have been running with it, lots of them calling Dems traitors (snore) and worse. The Corner's Kathryn Jean Lopez said that this shows Dems are "dissing Petraeus." Wizbang wrote that this reveals that the "Democrats are so predictable it's sickening." And Ace of Spades accused the Dems of preemptive "spin," asking: "Didn't these guys specifically demand a report from Petraeus in the legislation to continue troop funding?"


Why, yes, Ace, they did pass this legislation. Shall we take a look at the relevant section about the reports? Here were go:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/09/wingnuts_in_a_l.php