Rep. Clyburn: Republicans Using ‘Code Words’ To Attack Ambassador Rice

[Rob H.]

8. I had a Republican friend on Facebook complaining all the time

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this election season about Obama being "lazy," and his right-wing friends would fall all over themselves to agree with him. Ironic, considering that Dubya took record amounts of time off during his two terms--he even broke the previous record set by the GOP's patron saint, Ronald Reagan!

I find it ironic that McCain and Graham are spitting bile everywhere about Susan Rice's nomination, yet this is what they said about Condoleezza Rice's nomination and they both voted to confirm Condi as SoS:

Asked if then-Sen. Mark Dayton's use of the word "liar" was justified, Graham pounced.

"Yes, that's even more unfair. Because it was all in terms of weapons of mass destruction and misleading us about the war and what was in Iraq. Well, every intelligence agency in the world was misled. And to connect those two to say that she's a liar is very unfair, over the line."

Before the vote, McCain noted from the Senate floor that the chamber had enough votes to confirm Rice to the job, questioning why Democrats wanted to debate her nomination.

"So I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion," he said, adding that Rice is qualified for the job. "I can only conclude that we are doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness over the outcome of the election." (Emphaisis mine)

Graham also claims, &quot E)very intelligence agency in the world was misled." Unless he means "misled by the United States," I have three words for Graham: Downing Street Memo. Rice was also saying deliberately hyperbolic things about Saddam Hussein and Iraq like, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" in order to gin up support for invading. Stopping at calling Condi Rice a liar is ridiculously mild criticism, imo; the reality is much, much worse.