Monday, July 13, 2009

GOP Responds To Cheney’s Concealment Of CIA Program With Strawmen And Shrugged Shoulders.



And here's the Republican reaction to the news. They are almost shrugging their shoulders.

On the Sunday shows this morning, several Republican lawmakers attempted to defend or divert attention away from the revelation about Cheney. “I don’t think we should be jumping to any conclusions,” said Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on ABC’s This Week. Kyl claimed that Cheney’s alleged actions were “not out of the ordinary”:

STEPHANOPOULOS: But this allegation of the vice president ordering it be kept secret, you believe that should be investigated?

KYL: Look, the president and the vice president are the two people who have responsibility, ultimately, for the national security of the country. It is not out of the ordinary for the vice president to be involved in an issue like this.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But to order it be kept secret?

KYL: What if it’s a top secret program? Of course he and the president would both be responsible for that. Let’s don’t jump to conclusions is what I’m saying.

Notice how quickly the Republicans are trying to paint this as Obama attempting to avoid his own responsibility for the economy. It's simply evasion. They instantly start to play politics with this whilst accusing the Democrats of that very thing.

Notice how the defence is that "the CIA is in the secrecy business". This ignores the fact that the CIA have a duty to keep Congress informed about what they are doing. Once again the Republicans are going to play the fear game to justify blatant illegality: "Cheney was only trying to keep us all safe!"

The Republicans appear to me to be a party who really don't think the law applies to them when they are in office. How else can they bring themselves to make these ridiculous arguments?

Hat tip to Think Progress.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

nunya said...

and they wonder why only around 23% of the country will even admit they are Republican?

Yeesh.

We know who they be representin'

Kel said...

Nunya,

I am surprised that there is anyone left who will publicly admit to supporting these people.