Jun 29 2005
GOP Moron of the Week - Rep. Robin Hayes
I just about dropped my Honey Nut Cheerios on the floor this morning while watching CNN’s interview with Rep. Robin Hayes from North Carolina.
When asked to comment on the President’s repeated 9/11 connection to Iraq during his primetime address last night, Rep. Hayes said, “Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11″.
When confronted on that statement (the fact that he was even confronted on the question is unusual from CNN in itself) he quipped, “I’m sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places.”.
I don’t know what’s more troubling about this, the fact that Rep. Hayes is Vice Chairman of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee in the House, that he’s privy to some intelligence he claims to have seen that no other congressperson has, or that he’s just a straight out liar.
The CIA has repeatedly said there was no connection between Saddamm and 9/11. The 9/11 commission report stated there was no connectin between the two. Even Senators from his own party - who would have access to the same intelligence he claims to have seen - don’t claim there is any connection.
There are still people out there like Rep. Hayes who continue to perpetuate the false claims that there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq as a reason to try to get support for the war. President Bush did it last night, and Rep. Hayes did it again this morning despite the facts which prove the exact opposite. Therefore, in light of his continued lieing, Rep. Robin Hayes is my GOP Moron of the Week.
When are you going to introduce your Democrat Moron of the Week?
There’s already an entire news channel that is devoted to sussing out such a topic, Yeah Boy.
I’ll start that up when Democratics start trying to do ridiculous things like link 9/11 and Iraq, or making bumper stickers that try to portray Republicans as the party that Bin Laden supports.
Or you could start up a weblog of your own and try it out, at which point I could antagonize you in your comments section ;)
I’ll start that up when Democratics start trying to do ridiculous things
You’re kidding yourself. They have done and will continute to do ridiculous things - Senator Durbin less than 1 week ago, compared Guantanamo Bay with the mass murderers who created the gulags, Pol Pot’s killing fields and the Nazi’s.
Please. Someday you’ll understand that
Democratic Party == Republican Party.
BTW - Bumper Stickers?!? You are bent out of shape by bumper stickers?
Umm. Well it wasn’t just the bumper stickers, it’s the message they were giving out that terrorists support Democrats, so yeah I get bent out of shape about that.
Although apparently not as much as the right wing blogosphere does about Dick Durbin reading an FBI report about torture in Guantanamo. A refresher of the FBI memo:
And what Durbin said in regards to that memo:
What Durbin is saying is that the kind of torture going on in Cuba is more represenative of oppresive evil regimes than of the United States. I mean, I can understand flogging this horse to death because it’s really the only thing out there right now for wingers to flog, but let it go.
The real question that is being brought up here is that we’re torturing people in Cuba right now. Yet the Republicans are focusing all their energy on attacking Sen. Durbin, because that’s the real crime here!
It’s classic spin in order to divert attention away from the real story of torture by Americans, and I’m surprised you’re buying into it so easy.
Durbin needed to be a little more responsible and you needed to call him the Democrat Moron of the Week.
Sorry, but Rep. Hayes wins the cuppie doll for being so out of touch that he’s still repeating the 2003 talking points.
I like how you feel it’s okay to tell Dan what he “needs” to put in his blog.
Personally, I don’t think anyone can go overboard with comments about what’s going on in GB.
Hell, Santorum thinks the filibuster was invented by Nazis.