Score One for the Democrats in Memo-gate Spin

gopusa ^ | February 16, 2004 | Bobby Eberle

[prairiebreeze]

Hear, Hear!!

[Piquaboy]

The Rats seem quite adept at turning a negative into a positive for them with the media's help.

[Cubs Fan]

This is testament to the prowess of the Democrats in spin control and the unwillingness of the Republicans to call them on it.

the Repubs in the senate are utterly imcompetent wimps.

They should have had press conference after press conference about the dems blatant racism. But what do they do even when they have a winning issue? they cower in the corner hoping it will all disappear. Typical, pathetic.

[boomop1]

I just dare the pubies to call me for a contribution, I gave several years ago, boy was that a mistake, always give anonyns if possible, I gave to the right to life and now have an open line to them. I ran off the last republican fund raiser told them to ditch Hatch, Frist, Specter, Snow, give them page jobs then call me.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Long ago, I've been yearning for the people of Utah to begin a recall effort on Orin Hatch. What a pathetic, feckless "leader".

And now Lindsey Graham is showing his wimp side -- although he displayed that back when he gave Bubba a pass on the impeachment charge related to perjury in the Paula Jones trial. Lindsey, I guess, sees his future in being the John Breaux of the Republican party, playing nicey-nice with Hitlery and other two-faced Demos (apologize for the redundancy there). I'm sure Lindsey sees his seat as safe for the next 24 years -- what a cushy career, especially once you've made all your alliances with the enemy and demonstrate that you're willing to play ball with all the insiders. Very disappointing.

On a more positive note: this should be a great year for Cubs Fans!

[pointsal]

Yes, spineless GOP...nitwits....

[txzman]

"It's time for Republicans to stop allowing themselves to be slapped around by the Democrats. "

No kidding!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The dems have made this all about the way these memos were uncovered, successfully deflecting any discussion of their inflammatory content. They have made this seem like a Watergate-style episode of dirty tricks. The public is unaware or not interested in the facts.

The democrats and the republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee apparently share one computer server. For those of you who are not familiar with computer networks, here are the basics:

Suppose you have your computer in the den, and your wife has hers in the kitchen. You hired a teenage geek to hook the two of them together, which he did by running some kind of ethernet cable between them. He set up the system so that either of you could see everything on your spouse's computer. So, when you're accessing your computer, your data is on C drive, for instance, and your wife's is available on D drive. It is possible to share your entire hard drive this way, or, you may specify that you only want to share what is in certain directories, or sub-directories. You may not want to be able to access each other's emails, for instance.

Apparently, when a system resembling the oversimplified example above was installed for the Judiciary Committee, the geek-in-charge set it up so that, by merely clicking on the Network Neighborhood icon, right there on the desktop, data that resided on other hard drives, but was "Shared" was readily available.

I can imagine how this discovery must have transpired. Here is my fictional account. A republican staffer is searching his hard drive for a particular memo. He can't locate it. He thinks, maybe it's on my colleague's computer. He goes to Network Neighborhood, where he notices that, in addition to his colleague's D drive, there are also two drives listed as E and F. "What the hell are in those?" He clicks on the E Drive icon and sees a list of memos written by democrat staffers. The next two words he utters are "Holy" and something that rhymes with spit.

He looks through a few of these memos and then races in to his supervisor's office to share the "Eureka" moment. Not exactly breaking and entering, but a far cry from computer hacking. It is the technological equivalent of sharing an office with the opposition party, and finding that he left a stack of memos in plain sight on your desk.

The content of the memos is clearly the more important issue. If a policeman searches someone's trunk without a proper warrant or probable cause, that's one thing. If he find's Osama bin Laden in the trunk clutching a radioactive bomb, that's another. Deal with the cop in the appropriate manner for overstepping his authority. But, for God's sake, deal with what he found in the trunk. It's important!

[carlo3b]

I just dare the pubies to call me for a contribution..I ran off the last republican fund raiser told them to ditch Hatch, Frist, Specter, Snow, give them page jobs then call me.

Thats OK, they probably won't dump their majority position in the Senate, just to please you.. I'll give twice to cover you, to keep KERRY/DEAN/EDWARDS/CLINTON out of our Oval Office, after all we just had the sink replaced, and the carpet cleaned..

[pabianice]

I remain confounded at the Republicans' gutlessness and lack of fight. What the hell is wrong with them? Could Hillary! really be blackmailing them with her FBI files?

[boomop1]

Oh keep them in the senate so we have the alleged majority we never have been in charge give them jobs they can be useful at, not on committees in which they bend over and take it smiling, F them.

[Solson]

I am absolutely FURIOUS at the GOP Senators, namely Hatch and Frist for not doing ANYTHING to make these memos surface NOR to do anything to protect the namesake of Silberman, the judge appointed to head up the commission on Iraq and 9/11 and intelligence. Harry Reid can stand up and libel the man and not a single G**-damn Republican stands up to rebut the crap put forth.

I am so damn tired of Bush doing the right thing only to have it completely undermined by Senators and Congressmen unwilling to fight for what is right.

[carlo3b]

*boomop1*.. Geeeze, all the great FR names were taken when I got to choose mine .. :o)

[Bobby Eberle]

Thanks for posting the column. I really appreciate it.

Yes! It is so frustrating to see some of the things that the Senate Republicans are doing. We need action on judicial nominees, and we need to expose these memos for what they are and not let the Dems run the show. Who's in charge over there anyway???

Bobby

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Robert R. Eberle, Ph.D.
President and CEO, GOPUSA
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Talon News
Web: http://www.gopusa.com

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[boomop1]

Well I've been here forever I think I'm member 500 and something, who would have thought we would have grown so much, I use we as family, as there is no site like this or as significant.

[caprock]

The Rats seem quite adept at turning a negative into a positive for them with the media's help.

The media is THE factor in the dims' ability to maintain their control. Merely one year ago the media's absolutely anti-American bias was on display in their coverage of the war in Iraq. How soon the entertainment driven masses forget!

[carlo3b]

I agree my dear FRiend, where in the hell would we be without JimRob, and FR, and folks like us pushing and shoving the whimpy fools in our party to the right.. I'm just pulling your jump cord.. LOL.. :)

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I hope and trust that comment makes you as sick as me...

[PrincessB]

It could be even more simplified than your reply. The staffer could have done something we call an "explorer search." (Entered a word, like Estrada in Microsoft explorer search). ALL files that the staffer had access to with that word would show up in a list and the staffer could open each individually.

It happens all the time in my office.