Kudos to The Daily Show for exposing the GOP and their utter hypocrisy when it comes to Gov. Palin.

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Apparently the Friedman Unit just got a lot shorter. Even NY Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, calling the war “unwinnable” is off the Bush and Iraq bandwagon now in this sharply worded critique.

Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century — to bring out the best in us. His ”genius” is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer.

You can read the whole op-ed here.

Talk about propaganda…

White House strategist Karl Rove is predicting that the GOP will keep both the House and the Senate in November’s election. Granted, it’s his job to be the sunny optimist and to put a good face on all of the scandal and corruption taking place in the White House and in the Congress. Just remember, this is propaganda. They are scared and they are going to lose their majority in the House and Senate in under 20 days.

For the GOP’s favorite rag, The Washington Times:

White House political strategist Karl Rove yesterday confidently predicted that the Republican Party would hold the House and the Senate in next month’s elections, dismissing fallout from the sex scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley.

At a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, Mr. Rove — who is widely credited as the architect of the party’s historic 2002 midterm election gains — said Republicans are beginning to make significant headway in defining their party’s differences from congressional Democrats, especially on national security.

“I’m confident we’re going to keep the Senate; I’m confident we’re going to keep the House. The Foley matter has impact in some limited districts, but the research we have shows that people are differentiating between a vote for their congressman and a member from Florida,” Mr. Rove said, referring to the Republican who resigned last month after his sexually explicit online messages to former congressional pages were discovered.

The crooked GOP leaders are planning something big. There will definitely be an ‘October surprise’. That is why it is so important to call your local campaign office and get to work today!

Maybe they will find Osama on Nov. 5th…I wouldn’t put it past them.

From ABC World News’ Daily Blog:

According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President’s political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: “The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do.”

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The White House might help Lieberman by putting the kibosh on any move to replace the weak Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, with a stronger candidate.

And it might be able to convince Schlesinger to drop out of the race and endorse Lieberman in the final week or two, when it’s too late for another candidate to fill the GOP slot. A quiet White House effort to steer some money in Lieberman’s direction is another possibility.

Looks like Joe is stuck between a rock and a turd blossom.

Republican Party leaders Karl Rove and George W. Bush plan to run an identical campaign to that of 2002 and 2004. They plan to lie. They plan to drive home themes that are just crazy and untrue. They plan to use THE SAME social wedge issues to divide America and pin people against each other.

You can see it coming and if the Democrats don’t stand up now and fight, they risk being labeled by the Republican slime machine. Once that happens, it a game of catch-up all the way to November.

The New York Daily News ran a story today on the GOP’s strategies and themes for the 2006 election. It makes my stomach turn.

Ignoring criticisms that Iraq is not going well, the middle class is not cashing in on a growing economy and gas prices are out of control, Bush is telling candidates, “When we see problems, we solve them. The Democrats are good talkers; we’re good doers.”

But at the urging of political wise man Karl Rove, Republicans are being foremost advised to paint Democrats as “cut and run” on Iraq.

More…

Rove laid out the November line earlier this month at a speech to New Hampshire Republicans: “Like too many Democrats, it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party’s old pattern of cutting and running.”

A week later, Bush put it in his own words: “It is important to have members of the United States Congress who will not wave the white flag of surrender in this war on terror.”

Bush and Rove’s campaign themes include:

-Tax cuts: Make them permanent and prosperity will follow.

-Seal the border: A guest worker program isn’t amnesty.

-Medicare: Democrats talk about it; the GOP reformed it.

-Energy: It’s time to just say no to Mideast oil.

-God and family: Increase faith-based programs and confirm conservative judges who promote family values.

-Blame the media: They hate us anyway, and now their leaks are damaging national security.

Elections are about debate and about differences. I am looking forward to a very spirited and aggressive debate as we heads towards 2006. We know that if this election is a debate on the issues, Democrats will win. If this election is a referendum on the Republican Party and the White House’s leadership, Democrats will win, hands down!

Rove, Bush and Mehlman are everything wrong with this country. They use dirty and despicable tactics and they will stop at nothing to win. I just hope the Democratic leadership is reading this. Fight back now! Call a spade a spade. Don’t let these guys score again on the same old tired play!

Over the weekend, The Washington Post asked the question many Democrats have been asking since 2004. Why not Obama in 2008? For those of you who have been out hiking the Appalachian Trail or on Mars, we are referring to first-term Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), the political newcomer who has offered a refreshing perspective on politics, especially in an age where divisive Rove-like politics have split the country not on political lines, but on social and religious issues, i.e. guns, gays and god.

Obama, a first-term Democratic senator from Illinois, seems to be hitting the right notes these days. During Senate recesses, he has been touring the country at breakneck pace, basking in the sudden fame of a politician turned pop star. Along the way, he has been drawing crowds and campaign cash from Democrats starved for a fresh face and ready to cheer what Obama touts as “a politics of hope instead of a politics of fear.”
His office fields more than 300 requests a week for appearances. One Senate Democrat, curious about Obama’s charisma, took notes when watching him perform at a recent political event. State parties report breaking fundraising records when Obama is the speaker.

Since the moment I watched Sen. Obama address the 2004 Democratic National Convention, I knew he was something special; not just his political ability, but also his ability to connect with people on a human level. I hope Sen. Obama will consider an ‘08 run, because we all know that the longer he stays in Washington, D.C., the more disconnected he will become. Sen. Obama is the GOP’s worst nightmare; a unifier, intelligent, politically savvy and exciting.

What are your thoughts on an Obama run in 2008? Leave it in the comments below.

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