Remember when GOP said "criticizing the President during wartime" gave "aide & comfort" to enemies?

[K8-EEE]

I thought I must have been dreaming since Ari Fleischer was on the tee-vee saying he "couldn't remember" such a thing ever happening when Dems criticized Bush...

http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/gop-dissent-attacks.html

After Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said "the direction [in Iraq] has got be changed or it is unwinnable," Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said Democrats are "basically giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Similarly, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush an "incompetent leader," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) said Pelosi "apparently is so caught up in partisan hatred for President Bush that her words are putting American lives at risk."

MANY more examples at the link.....

[Scuba]

1. That's when their guy was in charge. Now it's different.

[Xyzse]

3. +1

Agreed... They can't handle criticism but love dishing it out.

[Aerows]

2. Deficits didn't matter either

They only matter when there is a Democratic President.

[Flashmann]

4. Rules don't apply to rethuglicans

Most especially rules THEY institute..Everyone knows this....SHHHEEEESH!!

[HereSince1628]

5. Rememer IOKIYAR?????

get in step there, or people will think you aren't a good member of the collective!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. I sure do.

nt

[progressoid]

7. Oh you silly libruls.

That's when we were at war....err....well....I mean....it's just different now.

So there. Nya nya nya.

[Moonwalk]

25. Yep. Tricks are for Rethugs.

[porphyrian]

8. ! n/t

[kardonb]

15. 8.n/t

all their pompous-ass pronouncements are coming back to bite them where the sun don't shine now .

[jillan]

9. This post needs more attention!! Wow!

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Thank you for posting.

Tom Delay, isn't he some kind of criminal now?

[Flashmann]

11. Tom Delay, isn't he some kind of criminal now?

No....Hell no......Only if you adhere to accepted conventional wisdom,consider hard evidence or accept as legitimate decisions by judge and jury.....That simply is not realistic.....

[Hubert Flottz]

12. LOL

Welcome to DU!

[Dawson Leery]

13. Remember the Dixie Chicks.

[Ian_rd]

14. How dare you! That went down the Memory Hole for a reason! Put it back! <nt>

[barbtries]

16. you know the drill

iokiyar

[elleng]

17. Thanks for this, K8.

Posted 'Politics stops at the water's edge yesterday,' but was hoping to see much more on the subject.

[oldsarge54]

18. Do you mean Agnew was Right

Only that now the nattering nabobs of negativity are Republicans?

[Cosmocat]

19. It burns my arse today ...

if they wanted to deregulate the amount of crape companies were putting into hot dogs and you opposed it you were a scumsucking terrorist enabler.

We had a local row officer in county government ball about having opposition during a time of war.

I said ALL that Commander in Chief! and no opposition to the president when troops are in the field crape would end in January of 2009 two years before, and it ended with a very silent thud when President Obama was sworn in.

[pa28]

20. K&R

[former9thward]

21. Criticizing the President during wartime may give aid and comfort to enemies.

But in this country that bridge was crossed long ago. Both Johnson and Nixon were criticized during the Vietnam war and that pattern has continued until this day. Nobody cares anymore, it has become just another political talking point.

[liberal N proud]

22. And you are either with us or against us

Hell yea, I remember.

Now the shoe is on the other foot and they don't want to play along.

[Jim__]

23. That may be what they said; what they meant was:

"Criticizing a republican President during wartime gives aide & comfort to the enemy."

[HooptieWagon]

24. Yes, and I also remember when "deficits don't matter"

You can always count on republican hypocrisy.

[AzDar]

26. Boy, do I ! I made sweet, sweet, love to the enemy just about every day.

Good times.

[bluesbassman]

27. "People have to watch what they say and watch what they do." Ari Fleischer 9/26/2001

The hypocrisy and hubris of the modern day republican party knows no bounds.

[kathman-duzi]

28. New GOP motto is

Double down Lie and keep rolling backward.

This is why irony is lost on the Republicans and hypocrisy is their standard.