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This is not news: GOP Chair Says Democrats Weak on Terror

Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the RNC, saying Democrats are weak on terror is like a weather man talking about weather. I read the above article and noticed nothing in it that wasn't a misrepresentation or an attempt to reinforce Wingnut memes. An example of misrepresentation: "Will we elect leaders who recognize we're at war and want to use every tool to win it, or politicians who would surrender important tools we need to win?" I haven't heard of a single Democratic lawmaker who wants to surrender any tool, we simply want it supervised at least by the kangaroo court known as FISE. Mehlman claims that the Democratic party wants to keep the NSA from eavesdropping on terrorists - utter bullshit. All we want is to do it legally and by the way, to keep them from fishing expeditions involving, well, you.

This dollop of Rovian bullshit had no place in the news for the most part because it isn't news. It's nothing the Wingnuts haven't been saying for months and repetition will neither make it the truth nor will it make it newsworthy; they only hope to reinforce the meme. What Mehlman's pathetic attempt to predict disaster is the desperation in the Republican party. They see their absolute hold on government, wasted in bad policy and disastrous decisions, ending and they're scared as hell.

Imagine a Democratic Congress with Bush on the stand, under oath, explaining his policies? It scares the hell out of them. And that, friends, is also not news.