Reuters: "Osama card" gives Bush, Republicans clout

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush may be a lame duck and his Republican party a minority in Congress, but they showed this week that with deft use of the "Osama card" they can still wield a powerful political hand.

A Democratic attempt to push through new restrictions on government eavesdropping collapsed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, after Republican opponents launched a ploy that would have forced the bill's supporters to cast a vote seeming to side with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Democrats cried foul and pulled the bill from consideration. They vowed to press on, but Republicans quickly claimed victory, predicted the measure was dead and called for a bipartisan rewrite.

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"It's sort of that Pavlovian instinct, every time the president says you're soft on terror, they (the Democrats) roll over and play dead," said Caroline Fredrickson of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1844086520071018

Ummmmm, No wonder the emperor is no longer interested in "wanted dead or alive". He can't play the card if he who can't be mentioned is caught, now can he?

What a freaking circus. The "Osama Card" It's coming apart, Chimpy, the Big Lie.

from AmericaBlog:

http://www.americablog.com/2007/10/democrats-really-do-deserve-what-they.html

Gee, could it be that:

1. Bush still hasn't caught Osama six years after the 9/11 attacks?

2. Bush let Osama go at Tora Bora?

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3. In 2002, months after the September 11 attacks, Bush removed our troops who were searching for Osama in Afghanistan in order to send them to Iraq, where Bush "chose" to fight a war unrelated to the war on terror or September 11?

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4. In 2005, Bush dismantled the CIA office in charge of hunting for Osama?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

1. How long do they plan on playing that card?

If still alive, isn't OBL in his late 40s? They could milk the bogeyman for another 20-30 years...

[Rex]

2. It's shit like this that fuck this country up for so many.

This stupid idea that George wants people to believe - that they actually give a shit about catching OBL. Hey dumbass, that is so 2001. This is going on 2008. Fat OBL, thin OBL all we know is that you have failed to keep a promise - surprise.

Now, the Congress Repukes calling Dems 'Evildoers'(tm) is just the same tired bullshit they always pull. God knows how it works, Dems push for the Constitution - Repukes deride their push with some fairyland theory linking OBL to our party.

This from assholes who wear 'purple heart' band-aids and mock soldiers by calling them phonies.

This is sick, I guess Pukers get to do whatever they want, whenever.

Really sad for America.