Except that I'm not, which you'll see if you read the article. My bad, though, it's a pain to find because the page is so long. Here's the very next paragraph down from the one I cited, which quite clearly establishes that Greenwald thinks this went on all the way through 2007:
"Did any of that dilute the Right's anger and resentments towards Democrats? Democrats spent 2002 giving George Bush everything he wanted -- including authorization to attack Iraq -- and the Right then promptly attacked them as Saddam-allied, Osama-loving subversives. In 2004, Democrats got frightened away from nominating an actual combative liberal, because they feared he'd be too divisive and culturally alienating, and replaced him with a mild-mannered, inoffensive war hero, who then had derisive purple band-aids waved at him by the GOP convention throngs, who spent months mocking him as a weak, effete, elitist loser. In 2007, Congressional Democrats even voted overwhelmingly to formally condemn their own largest grass-roots political group, MoveOn, to placate the Right's anger over a newspaper ad the group had placed."
Do you contend that the '02 to '07 Congress was more compliant than, say the Congress was to President Roosevelt in 1942? Or to President Johnson in the wake of JFK's assassination? Greenwald is simply making shit up.
I'm not intending to start a debate about the role of the executive here, but rather to point out that Greenwald isn't even slightly credible because of his propensity to exaggerate.
"Did any of that dilute the Right's anger and resentments towards Democrats? Democrats spent 2002 giving George Bush everything he wanted -- including authorization to attack Iraq -- and the Right then promptly attacked them as Saddam-allied, Osama-loving subversives. In 2004, Democrats got frightened away from nominating an actual combative liberal, because they feared he'd be too divisive and culturally alienating, and replaced him with a mild-mannered, inoffensive war hero, who then had derisive purple band-aids waved at him by the GOP convention throngs, who spent months mocking him as a weak, effete, elitist loser. In 2007, Congressional Democrats even voted overwhelmingly to formally condemn their own largest grass-roots political group, MoveOn, to placate the Right's anger over a newspaper ad the group had placed."
Do you contend that the '02 to '07 Congress was more compliant than, say the Congress was to President Roosevelt in 1942? Or to President Johnson in the wake of JFK's assassination? Greenwald is simply making shit up.
I'm not intending to start a debate about the role of the executive here, but rather to point out that Greenwald isn't even slightly credible because of his propensity to exaggerate.
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