Post by merlynmary on Feb 16, 2006 21:35:19 GMT -5
You can have your VERY OWN set of facts in a totally separate alternate reality!
In Republican World (TM), outing a CIA agent to punish her husband for speaking out against Bush is a clever political maneuver, while voicing any criticism of the war in Iraq or the war on terror is blatantly unpatriotic, treasonous and outright indefensible.
In Republican World (TM), LYING UNDER OATH to a grand jury is a meaningless technicality and 'criminalization of politics' if the perjury relates to a war costing tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, but the same offense is grounds for impeachment if it is about an affair between two consenting adults.
In Republican World (TM), doling out top FEMA jobs to your unqualified cronies is just good manners, while pointing out that their incompetence may have killed thousands is engaging in a nasty 'blame game'
In Republican World (TM), lying about WMDs and 'fixing intelligence around war plans' that ultimately killed 2,000 troops and up to 100,000 civilians does nothing to damage the reputation of the US, but a Newsweek article that causes riots and approximately 15 deaths is the scandal of the century.
In Republican World (TM), getting over 200 of your judicial nominees approved while seven of the most extreme and incompetent are blocked is an unconstitutional and un-American farce while blocking or bottling up in committee SIXTY SEVEN of Clinton's nominees was good politics.
In Republican World (TM), your kids won't have to pay down a multi-trillion dollar national debt, only kids of liberals have to contribute.
In Republican World (TM), you get affordable health care and don't have to worry about going bankrupt because of catastrophic medical bills, even as HMOs are recording record profits and are paying their CEOs up to $124 MILLION / year, while at the same raising rates between 15% and 30% year over year.
In Republican World (TM), lying about a blowjob is an impeach able offense, but lying about WMD and sending troops to die is the patriotic duty of the Commander in Chief.
In Republican World (TM), a woman with a liquified cerebral cortex is reason enough to get agitated and proclaim to belong to a 'culture of life', while ignoring a whole genocide in Darfur is not considered rancid hypocrisy.