The Battle for the Battle for Iraq from Guardian WatchBlog.

Technorati tags: War on Islamofacism, Media Spin, Leftist Defeatism, Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.

Daily Kos has been a force behind the effort to defeat Lieberman, pushing the boundaries of rhetoric and raising funds for millionaire Lamont’s campaign. Now he has some suggestions about what to do with Lieberman.

Outside the Beltway answers point for point.

Excerpted from Real Clear Politics (read it all!):

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Screamin’ Dean went on CNN Late Edition and fervently and repeatedly asserted that no Democrats ever took money from Jack Abramoff:

BLITZER: Should Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, who has now pleaded guilty to bribery charges, among other charges, a Republican lobbyist in Washington, should the Democrat who took money from him give that money to charity or give it back?

DEAN: There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, not one, not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican. Every person under investigation is a Republican. Every person indicted is a Republican. This is a Republican finance scandal. There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money. And we’ve looked through all of those FEC reports to make sure that’s true.

BLITZER: But through various Abramoff-related organizations and outfits, a bunch of Democrats did take money that presumably originated with Jack Abramoff.

DEAN: That’s not true either. There’s no evidence for that either. There is no evidence…

BLITZER: What about Senator Byron Dorgan?

DEAN: Senator Byron Dorgan and some others took money from Indian tribes. They’re not agents of Jack Abramoff. There’s no evidence that I’ve seen that Jack Abramoff directed any contributions to Democrats. I know the Republican National Committee would like to get the Democrats involved in this. They’re scared. They should be scared. They haven’t told the truth. They have misled the American people. And now it appears they’re stealing from Indian tribes. The Democrats are not involved in this.

BLITZER: Unfortunately Mr. Chairman, we got to leave it right there.

Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party, always speaking out bluntly, candidly.

The leader of the National Democrat Party went on national television and unequivocally stated that no Democrats had taken money from Abramoff. Zip. Zero. Nada.

Just how big of a lie is this? Acting under the assumption that giving money to the Democrat Party is like giving money to all Democrats, let’s examine the money given to various Democrat party entities (taken from the complete list of recipients at Capital Eye):

That’s three national Democrat organizations and another eight state level Democrat party organizations. Ah, but Abramoff is a “Republican” lobbyist, right? So let’s compare to the Republican party:

That’s four national Republican organizations and another seven state level Republican party organizations. Democrats received 40 percent of the national and state-level funds from Abramoff! In fact, Democrats received 39 percent of national funds and a whopping 58.5 percent of state funds!

Now add the fact that 40 of the 45 members of the Senate Democrat Caucus accepted cash from Abramoff, his associates, and Indian tribe clients. [HT to the Gateway Pundit]

In fact, take a look at the list of 106 House and Senate Democrats that accepted money from Abramoff (extracted from the complete list of recipients at Capital Eye). Or if you want the raw data (organized by me into categories), download the spreadsheet.

Lifelike Pundits says that Howard Dean Is a Pathalogical Liar:

I mean, sometimes it’s frustrating to look at someone just lie and know that someone like Barbra Streisand or David Letterman might just believe him, but deep down, it’s comforting to know that you are on the right side. What a fool.

Tim Worstall observes:

The only answer is small government.

Lean Left applies his intellect to address a different aspect of the issue with In Defense of Keeping Tribe Money:

There seems to be this notion that giving back all the money a politician ever got form anyone who ever did business with Abramoff clients is the right thing to do. I don’t agree with that. Abramoff’s clients have the right to participate in the political process.

Say Anything notes:

Trying to spin this off as a “Republican only,” or even “Republican mostly” scandal does the issue a grave disservice. Pretending that this corruption is the problem of one party and not the other denies the problems at the heart of the issue.

Our politicians in Washington are corrupt. Its high time we stopped the partisan finger-pointing and addressed root causes.

On the other side of the ethical fence, DailyKos says Dean sets Wolf straight and has yet to issue a correction.

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Democrat Senator Turbin Durbin had this to say about our soldiers:

If I … did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners [at Guantanamo] in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Pol Pot, or others that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
     — Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), Congressional Record, 6/14/05 p. S6594

Sadly, this is an elected official talking about unproven allegations in the time of war. That may not be treason, but it is certainly treasonous.

From a reader of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

This is what I would say to the squalid, seditious, sanctimonious seven — the disgusting, turncoat Republican Sens. Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Olympia Snowe and John Warner:

The stench you’ve created is overwhelming. I can only pray that it will swiftly bring about your absolute undoing and demise as representatives of the public trust. What will you do with your 30 pieces of silver?

You caved. You sold out. You put politics above principle.

There’s more. Man, I wish I could write like that.

Dems are frightened by the new black voter:

African-Americans have become more politically astute and realize the value and power of their votes. They are demanding more accountability to ensure that their votes really do count. Black clergy are insisting that candidates address moral issues and visit their churches throughout the year instead of merely two weeks before Election Day.

Voters are researching candidates and relying less on sound bites and endorsements by popular political kingpins. Those leaders certainly have their followers, and their endorsements have value. But it is a fallacy to assume that one or two leaders can shake all the apples from the voting tree into any one bucket.

Rather than embracing change, the NAACP chairman stays with the same old poisonous rhetoric:

[NAACP Chairman Julian Bond] noted that the Republicans won all the states of the old Confederacy in last month’s presidential election. Bond said Republicans have reached out to “Talibanistic” elements whose idea of civil rights is being able to fly the Confederate flag beside the U.S. flag.

So the NAACP Chairman believes that Bush won the presidency because Southerners are racists comparable to the Islamic fundamentalists with whom we are currently at war. Bond packs more stereotypical hate in one speech than most people can express in a lifetime.

Democrat California Congressman Sam Farr is a little bewildered by the fact that people got upset by an offhand comment:

When asked why the results in California were so different than the rest of the country, Farr told the Monterey Herald: “I think if the rest of country had invested in higher education like California, you would have had a more educated electorate and a California outcome in the rest of the country.”

“It was the night after the election. Everybody was sort of wondering why the blue states, why the red states. I thought I’d say, ‘Look, the blue states are the big university states.’ I mean, it was an off-handed comment and it’s surprising that there’s this kind of reaction to it,” Farr said.

Finally, a self-described Democrat that gets it:

How could I be so stupid?

What has come over me? How can I bring myself to hang with these people, these tens of millions of intellectual androids who have never in their lives experienced an original thought? What on Earth was I thinking?

Good heavens, what’s wrong with me? Have I no shame? How can I have any conscience whatsoever and still remain a . . . Democrat?

The author goes on to list some of the more hateful post-election rhetoric that has emerged:

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Michael Moore’s next target will be the healthcare industry.

Some of the nation’s biggest drug manufacturers and health insurance plans confirm they have issued warnings to their sales representatives and other employees in recent weeks, telling them to be on the lookout for the shaggy filmmaker in his trademark baseball cap. And, under no circumstances, are they to talk to Moore.

The industry’s red alert was prompted by word that Moore plans to aim his camera lens at the health-care industry, much as he did with other targets, most recently President Bush in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Any bets on whether he will be pushing for socialized medicine?

Dizzy Girl finds some extremely disparaging remarks made about some self-styled Babes 4 Bush.

I I’m fairly net savvy but must confess to have never come across anything as horrific as DU on the conservative side.