Gore’s Lies Are Little, Bush’s Big
"You talk about Gore’s little white lies while Governor Bush gets away with ‘the big lies’ – the missing trillion in Social Security, the notion that he takes credit for a patients health care bill in Texas when he vetoes it and then let it pass without his signature because he was going to be overridden. He’s the one who’s telling the lies and cliche city, one vacuous cliche after another. The notion that he will come to Washington, ‘bring people together.’ The Texas legislature meets every other year for four months."
– Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, October 21 McLaughlin Group.
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"Iraq, Katrina, Abramoff, Dubai: It all adds up to another abysmal year for President Bush"
"Get ready for the divider, not the uniter, when President Bush delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to a packed House chamber"
"The Republican Party is full of secret pro-choicers."
"In compiling this year’s list, I had the highest number of entries for the category, “Biggest Lie.” I chose the White House declaration that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby had nothing to do with leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent."
"Another favorite (lie)—heard all the time from the White House—is that “everybody saw the same intelligence we did.”
"Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue. “We do not torture,” he declared despite ample evidence to the contrary from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to secret prisons in Eastern Europe."
"Vice President Cheney went to Capitol Hill repeatedly to lobby for the U.S. right to torture, capitulating only when the vote went against him 90 to 9. Sen. John McCain, who was tortured when held prisoner during the Vietnam War, took on Bush’s No. 2 and stood up for democratic principles."
"The revelation that President Bush authorized spying on American citizens without warrants is a late entry to the year’s “Biggest Lies” list. Bush says he bypassed the law because of the need for speed. He may believe that, but the facts say otherwise."
"Bush’s explanation is riddled with lies. He says our enemies are watching and threatens The New York Times, which broke the spying story, with legal action. It takes a vivid imagination to believe that Osama bin Laden and his buddies are keeping up with the niceties of FISA courts and would otherwise have no idea their phones might be tapped."
"Impeachment is a nonissue; it’s not going to happen with Republicans in control of the House and Senate."
"The White House is telling senators that Alito didn’t mean all those things he wrote about disregarding privacy rights and overturning Roe v. Wade—another big lie."
"Cindy Sheehan represents only a small part of America’s greater tragedy in Iraq."
"If only Bush’s biggest mistake was refusing to meet with Sheehan. She is a footnote to the greater catastrophe of Iraq, a war without end that we cannot win and cannot leave."
Books by Eleanor Clift
War Without Bloodshed
Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future
Articles by Eleanor Clift
GOP Phone-Jamming Scandal Has Legs
What CIA Leak Claim Means for Bush
It’s Time for Dems to Take a Stand
Dems Should Emphasize Common Sense
What Alito Could Do to Roe v. Wade
Clift: Bush’s Colossal Failure to Lead
How Roberts Could Affect Court, Elections
Right-Wing Hypocrisy on Stem Cells
Why Condi’s Candidacy is Doomed
Clift: What Howard Dean Must Do For the Dems
Clift: Why Democrats Are Stronger Than You Think
Bush’s Divisive State of the Union
Bush Has Bigger Problems Than Sheehan
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