Mr Luntz is at it again, doing what he does best: Making Stuff Up for purely Politcal Gain!
Wall St Consultant Frank Luntz Pens Memo On How To Channel Economic Anxiety Into Protecting Wall St Abuses Lee Fang, ThinkProgress - 02/01/2010
[...] Luntz, who gained national recognition for his role in shaping the buzzword-heavy Contract for America with Newt Gingrich in 1994, has built a sizable business selling his messaging advice to both corporations and Republican campaigns.
The new memo instructs opponents of financial reform to simply lie about reform legislation, and to twist economic anxiety resulting from the recession into fear of any government effort to fix the underlying cause of the financial crisis. The most dishonest argument is that financial reform would "punish" taxpayers while rewarding "big banks and credit card companies." In reality, top financial industry lobbyists are not only fighting proposed oversight regulations, but have said recently that they are opposed to "any regulation" at all.
Call it "Pollution denying", or "Reality Denying", it's all the same to the Professional Liars who are Senate Republicans.
In a touchdown celebration of "told you so" that is the equivalent of blowing your ACL while dancing after a homerun that went foul, Inhofe proceeds to insult the esteemed Senator from California, Barbara Boxer, by saying "We Won, You Lost, Get a Life."
This is what a stupid dick does, he gloats. The fact that he is dead wrong and corrupt just makes it worse.
Except climate change is FACT, you didn't win and you're a stupid towel, James InhoFAIL.
Inhofe said: "There has never been a case of torture there. The people there are treated better than in the federal prisons."
He continued, "I don't know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America."
As the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented, there have been countless cases of detainees being abused and tortured at the prison camp. Detainees have been beaten, deprived of sleep for weeks, sexually harrassed, and shackled to the floor for days at a time. Inhofe's statement at the town hall is only the latest in his political broadsides. He has in the past suggested that Obama is "un-American," that the mentality of Middle Easterners is "worse than Nazism," and that the conditions at Guantanamo Bay are humane.
You might remember Senator James Inhofe (Coal Industry-OK) for such classic hits as "Global Warming is a Hoax" and his visits to foreign tyrants on behalf of the C - Street Family, but this whopper takes the cake.
Despite massive evidence and facts that say "Yes, James Inhofe, there was torture at Gitmo", the ceaseless attempts to re-write histroy to make it look GOP/Bush-Cheney friendly are not working, and since 9 GOP Senators have tried to persuade AG Eric Holder to play nice with the Bushies the simple fact is that the Bush/Cheney Administration DID torture and DID commit war crimes and crimes against US law, otherwise they would have nothing to fear.
I guess we can just file this one away as another moment in a long line of moments where Republican politicians try to rewrite history while the rest of the world just shrugs it's shoulders and says, "Yeah, right, and monkey's might fly out of our butts!"
If FDR was a Republican he undoubtably would have said "We have nothing to fear but OMG WTF IS THAT RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!"
Of course, anything a Senate Republican says should be taken with a brick of salt. The stimulus is having no effect, Health Care reform will kill your grandma, Obama is pro terrorist, etc, etc . . .
So, it should be no surprise when America demands accountability for war crimes and the GOP gives us a gun rack instead.
Welcome to the 16th installment of "Considered Forthwith."
This weekly series looks at the various committees in the House and the Senate. Committees are the workshops of our democracy. This is where bills are considered, revised, and occasionally advance for consideration by the House and Senate. Most committees also have the authority to exercise oversight of related executive branch agencies.
A stumbling point for me in the practice of Buddhism is optimism. I do not do optimism. My thoughts on optimism parallel Ambrose Bierce.
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
I am particularly prone to pessimism (realism) when it comes to the response of our species to climate change. In reading the parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra, I am tempted to wonder (which is as close as I come to hope).
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