DNC: Republicans Play Semantic Games as President Bush's Credibility Sinks

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release
November 23, 2005
Contact: Karen Finney, 202-863-8148

Republicans Play Semantic Games as President Bush's Credibility Sinks

Washington, DC - The Washington Post reported today that Republicans in
Washington are hiding behind semantics to distort the fact that -despite
their denials before Congress last week- oil company executives shaped
Vice President Cheney's energy task force report. According to the Post,
the Republican majority on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee is arguing that the question of who participated in the task
force's deliberations depends on the definition of "participation."


These semantic games help explain the American people's declining
confidence in President Bush's honesty. According to latest Harris
Interactive poll, 64% of Americans -including 73% of independents-
believe the Bush Administration "generally misleads the American public
on current issues to achieve its own ends." The same poll found that 55
percent of Americans believe the indictment of Vice President Cheney's
former chief of staff for perjury, obstruction of justice and making
false statements is evidence of "a larger problem in the Bush
administration."

Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney
today issued the following statement on the Bush Administration's
diminishing credibility:

"The American people are sending a clear message. They are tired of a
Republican-led Congress and an Administration that ignores the American
people's values and priorities, that ignores the real issues confronting
our hardworking families, and that continues to mislead and distort the
truth to hide a radical special interest-driven agenda.

"Democrats believe that together, America can do better. It is time for
President Bush to do what's right for the American people by rejecting
the politics of spin and distortion and joining Democrats in fighting
for an agenda that restores honesty in government and puts the American
people ahead of the special interests."

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[SoFlaJet]

1. I like how Gov Dean's

fingerprints are all over the platform

[applegrove]

2. Big oil knows their star is dying. Like all other huge corportate combines

they get together and try and "shape" policy for their last dances. Selling big houses, refusing to allow the american to perceive the end of cheap oil. As long as they can put it off - they can make lots of money. Not unlike big tabbaccco who worked hard to put off the intelligence. So that people could make better decisions. Surely the average middle class person in the South or the North of the USA does not need a "new" house with excess ceilings that have to be air-conditioned or heated.


If you build it they will come.

[0007]

3. Slowly but surely, we're getting there.

I wanna see war criminal charges planted on this schmuck.