How the GOP/media play the anti-Democratic angle

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BREAKING! Homeland Security is NOT coordinating Occupy Crackdown! (Daily Kos dairy)

The lunacy is creeping. Every RW unsourced, nonsensical conspiracy is being give credence. The Examiner is a RW source created by Philip Anschutz

Washington Examiner Portrays Keystone XL Fight As ‘Big Labor’ Against ‘Big Green’ (Think Progress)

All Republicans have to do is say anything.

The pattern: Liberals Slam Super Committee Dems For Caving On Taxes — But Did They? (TPM)

The Times story is based on a comment Republican co-chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) made on CNN’s Sunday show State of the Union.

Caved! Outrage!

Now, the origins of CBS' piece on insider trading by members of Congress..

Occupy Nancy Pelosi: The Real ‘One Percent’ Is America’s Political Class (Breitbart's site)

What?

CNN

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The bill filed Tuesday by Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown would make it illegal for elected congressional officials, their staffs and executive branch employees to use information about pending bills that's not available to the general public in making investment decisions. It would also forbid them from making such information public for personal gain.

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Scott Brown Introduces Bill Applying Insider Trading Laws To Congress: ‘We Serve The Public, Not Our Bank Accounts’ (Think Progress)

This is the second thing Brown has done today to bolster his financial reform credibility...

Gingrich: Insider Trading Laws Should ‘Absolutely’ Apply To Congress (Think Progress)


Pelosi aide calls '60 Minutes' report a 'smear'

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The credit card fees bill, by then-House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., passed his committee on Oct. 3, 2008, but did not reach the full House. Pelosi was speaker at the time and controlled which legislation came to the floor.

Pelosi's office said Monday that "60 Minutes" should have reported that Oct. 3, 2008, was the same day the House was voting on the bank bailout known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program, amid a crisis atmosphere on the last regular day the House was in session. Its leaders were trying to round up votes for the bank rescue, and no other bills had much chance of reaching the floor.

The month before, Pelosi led House passage of the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, a bill also considered hostile to the industry. It was opposed by the Bush administration and died in the Senate, but was enacted in 2009.

A version of the Conyers fee limit became law in 2009 as part of a larger regulatory overhaul.

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Got it: Pelosi is being accused of supporting credit card fees !!!

Funny that the media picked up and is running with this story and focusing on Pelosi, ignoring the more substantiated charge against Bachus.

Actually, it's a great thing the GOP/media and other Democratic detractors have going: Cast doubt (sweetened by the angle that they all do it), knowing with certainty there will be enough people in and outside the media jumping on Democrats, making them the primary story.

Republican can step up and pretend that they're on the right side, even though they're protecting the rich, greedy corporation, determined to repeal health care reform and destroy Wall Street reform, the EPA etc.

Look over there!

Holding Democrats to a higher standard shouldn't be based on Republican spin.