Words Liberals Are Going to Hate Getting Used To Reading in the Papers
Kevin D. Williamson
NRO's Media Blog
Here's a phrase you're going to be reading frequently in the near future, both online and in traditional smeary 10-point newspaper type: "The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in ...."
Today's example:
<<< The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.
The case involves five men who claim to have been victims of extraordinary rendition — including current Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, another plaintiff in jail in Egypt, one in jail in Morocco, and two now free. They sued a San Jose Boeing subsidiary, Jeppesen Dataplan, accusing the flight-planning company of aiding the CIA in flying them to other countries and secret CIA camps where they were tortured. >>>
Give it to Jake Tapper for having the honesty to put it plainly: Obama, having absolutely libeled the Bush administration as an outlaw regime of torturers, is keeping precisely the same policy in place when it comes to renditions.
And he's keeping Bush's secretary of defense in place to oversee the Iraq War. And rather than closing Gitmo, he's "studying" his options—as though the Bush administration hadn't been. Having ripped the Bush administration for over-spending, Obama's top legislative priority is the biggest pork bill in history. Having claimed that Bush policies wrecked the economy, Obama is pushing for a "stimulus" bill that the CBO predicts will hinder, rather than stimulate, the longterm growth of the U.S. economy. All this before Valentine's Day. If I had been an Obama supporter, I might be experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse just about now. Wonder if the New York Times has anybody on that story.
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