Posted on 02/04/2009 10:06:00 PM PST by Syncro
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The day before Barack Obama's inauguration as president, "Purple Nation" columnist Lanny Davis pleaded on this page for a return to civility in our nation's politics.
Mr. Davis, a proudly self-professed liberal Democrat, announced his co-founding of what he is calling the Civility Project in a bid "to change the polarizing, attack-oriented political culture that has become all too common in recent years and, instead, to bring civility back as the staple of American politics and life."
Sorry, Lanny, as worthy as your aims may be, that horse fled the barn long ago. And it was your side that battered down the barn door.
Beginning shortly after President Bush assumed office in January 2001 and running through his departure from the White House eight years later, Democrats directed nonstop invective at Mr. Bush, and his call for a "new tone" in Washington went unheeded on the left.
From "selected, not elected" to then-Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri calling Mr. Bush "a miserable failure" in September 2003 to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid calling him a "loser" during a civics discussion with a group of teenagers at a high school in May 2005 to Howard Dean's many rants to the MoveOn crowd likening him to Adolf Hitler, the political incivility of "recent years" Mr. Davis decries has originated almost entirely on his side of the political aisle.
For the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee now to feign outrage (for fundraising purposes) at radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's saying "I hope he fails," referring to President Obama's socialist economic agenda, takes some serious chutzpah - even for the DCCC.
And, no...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Now they think it should stop.
Like Ann Coulter said (paraphrasing), we need to treat the Obama dynasty with the same respect and honor that the democrats/liberals gave to Bush and Co.
It's a good article, read the rest of it.
It had to be excerpted at the point it cuts off.
The good thing is, we don't have to taunt and call names, just point out gaffs and facts.
Give them hell.
Sure can Dish it, now its our turn! King Hussain aint seen nuttin yet.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance
...libs accused Bush of blowing up the twin towers for his own political career.
How much more hateful can you get??????
Conservative reaction to Obama has been NOTHING compared to that.
Libs also talked openly about killing Bush, Cheney or others.
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Great article!
Now that dear friends, is schadenfreude and let's witness it when it happens!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They burned that barn to the ground and I for one would not lift a finger to rebuild it for the likes of Obama and Biden. The dems richly deserve every bit of derision they're gonna get.
I would have liked to see how he formed his hypocritical pronouncement.
Every Republican elected official in Washington, D.C. should have to write this one million times on sheets of paper.
The ignoring of this simple concept, has essentially destroyed the ability for Conservatism to have any say at all, about which way this nation will be governed.
The Washington Times is an outstanding paper.
This attempt by Davis to call for essentially a cease-fire should be seen for what it is. He wants the right to roll over like they are want to do, so that Obama can easily push through every thing he wants, unquestioned.
Man, if those days aren’t over, this nation will become Soviet Russia before our very eyes. The right must begin to take stands constantly.
The Democrats could do it. Why can’t our team?
Parisi says in the article that republicans need to stop bringing a knife to a gun fight.
He's right, they have to man up or roll over.
I think they have enough gravel and dirt on them from doing that so often, maybe they will start caring.
Yea, Davis wants everyone to be nice to Present Obama.
Nope.
He will be called out on every liberal leftist thing he does, at least here on FR and other conservative sites and venues.
Hmmm...Palin's daughter is a slut?
Hmmm...George W. Bush is a drunk and does cocaine?
The libs can forget conservatives being civil to them. If we're civil to them, it's only because it's the Christian thing to do. And the American thing to be.
If they wanted to be civil maybe they should've started by condemning the Mark akdfhsdklsdfdfd of the Daily Kos when he said...any of the 10,000 anti-American offensive things that illegal alien has said.
So no, I'm not feeling very Wall Street Journal-y. I don't feel like being civil. And while I'm at it, has anybody noticed that Barack Obama's grandmother looks like a monster?
I’m seeing this call for civility on poll after poll after poll on a site I go to. I think liberals forgot they won and are still in whine mode.
Lanny Davis was about the only Dem who never attacked President Bush personally. I occasionally would hear him say very nice things about “W.” They were at Yale together.
The resemblance is astounding!
She's quite a nut.
Heres a fact. OObama is an illegal President because he is not a natural born US citizen. His birth certificate is “locked up”.
So the communist in chief has no authority and is an empty suit.
So I say screw him. Everything he signs is illegal.
OObama isn’t fit to lead a herd of monkeys.
It’s not about Lanny Davis. It’s about a bunch of horrible creeps known as the democrat party.
And now Obama is about to run up a $2 TRILLION dollar budget deficit his first year!
Oh hell no! Hammer'em and hammer those traitors hard and never let up!
It started with Nixon.
You got that right, Brother Bray! We are just getting warmed up!
Yes he will. I do have grave concerns about our elected officials. Once rolling over becomes the norm, it’s tough to remember what not doing it was like.
We have too many people who run cover for the left too.
1. 90% bad bill comes up
2. Republicans voice concern
3. RINO suggests 1 to 2% of changes and pronounces the bill fixed.
4. Everyone jumps on board the happy train.
5. We wind up with a bill that is 88% bad
There is absolutely no genetic resemblance there whatsoever. Whoever Obama’s real paternal grandmother is, I’d be surprised as all hell if it was her. Obama Sr. does look like her, Obama Jr., not even a little. Rosemary’s Baby.
I plan on treating the Obama administration the same way the left treated President Bush for eight years.
And it’s only been two weeks and they are complaining. Wait until we really get started on Obama. Let’s see how they like it then!
I seem to remember they all thought Pres. Bush was stupid. Well, look who they elected! Obama has no clue what he is doing as we have witnessed in this week alone.
It’s going to be a long four years and I hope they are ready for it! Obama’s poll numbers may be lower than Pres. Bush in under a month on the job!
"But the man who directed him to do so has still refused to tell the truth to the American people, which is Vice President Cheney. And that's why I am sympathetic to Mr. Libby taking the fall for the man who hides behind, in darkness, never telling the truth, never telling us what happened."
-Lanny Davis
I was just being facetious 'cause I think the obamas are ugly.
What is the admonition, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Well, we've been done unto for the longest time and as they say paybacks are a michelle obama.
Enjoy!
Lanny Davis is the typical shyster lawyer who’d sell his Grandma for $20 and an appearance on nightly news.
I can't stand his voice either.
When I see him talking on television it gives me the creeps, he is so good at what he does. Like Schumer, can't stand listening to him either.
He may be a friend of Bush, but he is a cowardly backstabber.
Con Safos
(what gang members put on grafitti that disses their enemies to protect their message)
Kinda like calling “King’s X”
These guys for all intents and purposes kept the pressure on for 8 plus years and they want to pretend to make nice?
Ha......
Then we'll be denounced as racists. The left has gone beyond the point of being able to reason with it. You can't reason with Marxists, IMHO.
Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, “Reagonomics 1981 (year ?) to 2009” graced the the bottom of the TV Screen while she talked about Maddof and other scandals. The Left can’t stop the invectiveness and name calling very easily; they live on this nonsense. Lanny Davis can clean up his side first.
and Onion worthy document....Lanny’s whole career is based on trashing REPUBs and shilling for RAT low lifes.
How much is he paying himself to chair this project?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
FYI.
Amen.
“democrats call for civility eight years late”
showing civility to democrats is like taking expensive, beautiful pearls and throwing them at the feet of dirty, snorting, disgusting, slop-swilling, sophomoric swine.
IMHO
We’re not shrieking abuse and death-threats at them. We are simply arguing our case. THAT is incivility to the Liberal mind: - mere disagreement with a Liberal is a capital offense.
Sometimes, when there are too many riding on the cart, the horse just gets tired of pulling.
Cheddar Cat
Since Jan 10, 2009
I see...
What goes around etc. etc.
I wonder... Does anyone know of an online resource for all the mean, nasty things that were said or printed in the media over the years about President Bush?
“Si vis pacem, para bellum”
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