Here is what Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wants us to think about her, and it's up on YouTube where her smile and bobbing head make the viewer sleepy.
It's possible to comment on YouTube postings with another video. So, dear friends out there with video cameras, do you have anything to say?
We could start out by noting that she didn't say anything about the war.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
For the record, Ros-Lehtinen is mentioned herein
This will take you over to the Miami-Dade Dems blog where our congresswoman from District 18 gets a brief mention. This blog is wondering why she apparently did not take the August trip to Budapest etc., where her Cuba policy gets more backing than at home. Has she lost her taste for joint politics with the Diaz-Balart brothers?
This blog also wonders when Ms. Ros-Lehtinen last held a town hall meeting to hear her constituents' concerns.
This blog also wonders when Ms. Ros-Lehtinen last held a town hall meeting to hear her constituents' concerns.
Friday, September 7, 2007
More on GAO vs. Ros-Lehtinen
Thanks to the Herald's Naked Politics blog for posting this link to the Think Progress website where you can watch video of the congresswoman's rambling and the tidy riposte by Comptroller General David Walker, who declares Ros-Lehtinen guilty of a "false claim" and also notes the lack of military experience of our current president, vice president and secretary of defense.
Delicious.
Delicious.
Gotta read Army Times for coverage of Ros-Lehtinen
The Miami Herald sees the polls that say the public doesn’t respect Congress, and apparently they stop covering our members of Congress. So thanks to a Yahoo! Alert, I got news of the Army Times story today reporting how South Florida’s own Ileana Ros-Lehtinen follows the military-industrial-complex script in questioning a witness.
“Lawmaker criticizes GAO over war expertise” was the headline on the story, and you can read the whole thing at this link.
At one point she said, “I’m not saying you’re bean counters.” Translation: You are bean counters. This is called a cheap rhetorical trick.
Problem for her was, the Government Accountability Office is supposed to look into student loan programs, not the war in Iraq.
So when witness David Walker, the U.S. Comptroller General, reported that the Army is “stressed, stretched, strained,” our representative in Congress said, “What in the world qualifies you to say that?”
Well, hasn’t everyone in the Pentagon been saying that? Where has she been? I guess our representative in Congress was over at the Leadership Institute learning the script, because soon she brought out one of the biggest neo-con talking points: The Good War.
“I just can’t imagine at one point during World War II, if we would have gotten a report from the General Accountability Office about whether we’re meeting the benchmarks on D-Day,” she was quoted as saying, and here she must have wandered off in her mind because the Army Times report says she then wondered about the effect on public morale.
She attacks the credibility of the GAO rather than the war it was tasked (by Congress) to examine, and a Democrat from Texas, Gene Green, reminded her of that and added, “You’re attacking the messenger instead of the message.”
Yes, she was over there learning the neo-con script, which of course features attacking the messenger right up with cheap rhetorical tricks and mentioning The Good War in the chapter about pulling the wool over the public’s eye.
Maybe it’s too hard for the Miami Herald to write about this stuff without laughing. Problem is, though, it’s too serious. Thank you, Army Times.
UPDATE: Was I too quick to nag the Herald on this topic? One hour and 17 minutes after I put up this post on Miami-Dade-Dems.blogspot.com the Herald's Naked Politics blog posted something, too -- noting that Ros-Lehtinen is catching heck from the blogs for her treatment of the GAO.
UPDATE II: My friend Dave Patlak invites all to assemble near Ros-Lehtinen's office next Tuesday, Sept. 11, and urge her to do the right thing when it comes time to vote on bringing the troops home. The time is 4-7 p.m. at 8660 W. Flagler St. (at 87th Avenue), Miami.
“Lawmaker criticizes GAO over war expertise” was the headline on the story, and you can read the whole thing at this link.
At one point she said, “I’m not saying you’re bean counters.” Translation: You are bean counters. This is called a cheap rhetorical trick.
Problem for her was, the Government Accountability Office is supposed to look into student loan programs, not the war in Iraq.
So when witness David Walker, the U.S. Comptroller General, reported that the Army is “stressed, stretched, strained,” our representative in Congress said, “What in the world qualifies you to say that?”
Well, hasn’t everyone in the Pentagon been saying that? Where has she been? I guess our representative in Congress was over at the Leadership Institute learning the script, because soon she brought out one of the biggest neo-con talking points: The Good War.
“I just can’t imagine at one point during World War II, if we would have gotten a report from the General Accountability Office about whether we’re meeting the benchmarks on D-Day,” she was quoted as saying, and here she must have wandered off in her mind because the Army Times report says she then wondered about the effect on public morale.
She attacks the credibility of the GAO rather than the war it was tasked (by Congress) to examine, and a Democrat from Texas, Gene Green, reminded her of that and added, “You’re attacking the messenger instead of the message.”
Yes, she was over there learning the neo-con script, which of course features attacking the messenger right up with cheap rhetorical tricks and mentioning The Good War in the chapter about pulling the wool over the public’s eye.
Maybe it’s too hard for the Miami Herald to write about this stuff without laughing. Problem is, though, it’s too serious. Thank you, Army Times.
UPDATE: Was I too quick to nag the Herald on this topic? One hour and 17 minutes after I put up this post on Miami-Dade-Dems.blogspot.com the Herald's Naked Politics blog posted something, too -- noting that Ros-Lehtinen is catching heck from the blogs for her treatment of the GAO.
UPDATE II: My friend Dave Patlak invites all to assemble near Ros-Lehtinen's office next Tuesday, Sept. 11, and urge her to do the right thing when it comes time to vote on bringing the troops home. The time is 4-7 p.m. at 8660 W. Flagler St. (at 87th Avenue), Miami.
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