rssDana Rohrabacher Links Obama to Iranian Violence
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9:40 am
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The conservative GOP representative from California, who probably did more to arm the Mujahideen than anyone else in Congress, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” yesterday to accuse the president of enabling violence in Iran.
If he had been talking a little tougher even a few days ago, we might not have been seeing the violence and bloodshed of this repressive regime in Tehran over the last few days.
Later in the interview Rohrabacher dished out what is, by my count, the 12,432th ahistorical comparison between this president’s actions and Ronald Reagan’s relationship with the Soviet Union (as opposed to Iran, which he armed).
It’d be like Ronald Reagan, going to the Berlin Wall and saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, that’s your business over there, we don’t want to have any business doing this.” Of course Mr. Gorbachev wouldn’t have permitted the wall to come down then.
On a day when the Politico runs a speculative story about a “Republican comeback,” it’s worth remembering that the some of the foreign policy analysis in the opposition party is still completely childish.
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3 Comments
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Thank you Congressman Rohrabacher for being a man of integrity and wisdom and slways telling it like it is. You are one of the last breathes of fresh air left in Washington DC.
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
Rohrabacher is to fresh air, as pig slop is to deordorizer.
Comment posted June 25, 2009 @ 9:56 am
Rohrabacher is a libertarian. That's LIBERTARIAN. Spelled L-I-B-E-R-T-A-R-I-A-N.
In fact, he's a co-founder of Reason Magazine. He was Chairman of the YAF Libertarian Caucus in the 1960s, and even Captain of the Libertarian Flag Football team.
You'd think that someone who used to write for Reason Magazine would know all this.
Please try to get your facts and labels straight next time.
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