Hypocrisy on a grand scale!!!

While the republicans are known for their blatant hypocrisy, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell takes it to a new level. Thanks to George Bush\'s new book, we find out that in the elections of 2006, while Mr. McConnell was busy admonishing democrats for wanting to get out of Iraq, he was secretly begging President Bush to do the exact same thing. McConnell’s local paper wrote an an editorial admonishing McConnell.

This incident, which Sen. McConnell’s office has not denied, shines brightly on the contemptible hypocrisy and obsessive partisanship that have come to mark the senator’s time in office.

At the time that Sen. McConnell was privately advising Mr. Bush to reduce troop levels in Iraq, he was elsewhere excoriating congressional Democrats who had urged the same thing. “The Democrat[ic] leadership finally agrees on something — unfortunately it’s retreat,” Sen. McConnell had said in a statement on Sept. 5, 2006, about a Democratic letter to Mr. Bush appealing for cuts in troop levels. Sen. McConnell, who publicly was a stout defender of the war and Mr. Bush’s conduct of the conflict, accused the Democrats of advocating a position that would endanger Americans and leave Iraqis at the mercy of al-Qaida.

Unless he is prepared to call a former president of his own party a liar, Mr. McConnell has a choice. He can admit that he did not actually believe the Iraq mission was vital to American security, regardless of what he said at the time. Or he can explain why the fortunes of the Republican Party are of greater importance than the safety of the United States.

I am not counting on either admission coming from the person who is mentoring our own Ron Johnson, the empty suit from Oshkosh. No wonder the ex presidents book came out AFTER the election!

Here is the inimitable Rachel Maddow in more detail:

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