Bush adviser - liberals urge ‘understanding’ for 9-11 atFollow

Democrats demand Rove apology
Bush adviser said liberals urge ‘understanding’ for 9-11 attackers
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:03 p.m. ET June 23, 2005

NEW YORK - Democrats demanded Thursday that White House adviser Karl Rove either apologize or resign for accusing liberals of wanting “therapy and understanding” for the Sept. 11 attackers, escalating the rancor that threatens to consume Washington.

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Rove’s comments — and the response from the political opposition — mirrored earlier flaps over Democratic chairman Howard Dean’s criticism of Republicans, a House Republican’s statement that Democrats demonize Christians and Democratic Sen. **** Durbin’s comparison of the Guantanamo prison to **** camps and Soviet gulags.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan came to Rove’s defense, saying the president’s chief political adviser was “simply pointing out the different philosophies and different approaches when it comes to winning the war on terrorism.”

“Of course not,” McClellan said when asked by reporters whether President Bush will ask Rove to apologize.

What he said
Rove, in a speech Wednesday evening to the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, said, “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” Conservatives, he said, “saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”

He added that the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for “moderation and restraint” after the terrorist attacks.

In the House of commons, MPs must refer to others as "my honourable friend" and actually calling someone a liar isn't allowed. So they come up with phrases to replace the word like "economical with the truth". And both sides laugh when someone makes a good joke, and go "Ooooo" and wave bits of paper around when someone makes a particuarly witty or cutting statement. And then the guy who's paid to keep order interjects and tells everyone to calm down.

Rove, in a speech Wednesday evening to the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, said, “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” Conservatives, he said, “saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”

In the House of commons, MPs must refer to others as "my honourable friend" and actually calling someone a liar isn't allowed. So they come up with phrases to replace the word like "economical with the truth". And both sides laugh when someone makes a good joke, and go "Ooooo" and wave bits of paper around when someone makes a particuarly witty or cutting statement. And then the guy who's paid to keep order interjects and tells everyone to calm down.

I think what Rove meant by that statement was that the far far left liberals that have begun to identify the democratic party are more quick to show compassion for our enemies than to attack them. The majority of democrats do not think this way, I am hoping, but people like Durbin are starting to be the symbols for the Democratic Party and what it represents. If I were a Democrat, I would be very angry with Durbin and disappointed in my party.

such as those terrible bastards who commited the heinous acts of 9-11.

No, I mean the as[/b]sholes behind the attack who told those di[b]ckheads they'd get 71 virgins or whatever for commiting mass homiside in the name of their god.

+10 for whoever can identify this line:

"Ooh, a SPARKLY!"

All I know is that, as a woman, I am sick and tired of perfectly good feminine traits being put in such negative light. Since when is compassion a bad thing? We certainly ate it up when it was our turn to get it.