Rewriting history

Anyone else find it funny how Republicans are backing away from using the verbage of the "nuclear option" about the Dems blocking their nominees? They're claiming that "nuclear option" is a phrase created by Democrats, even though they've admitted to inventing it in the past year.

Here's what happened. Their own internal focus groups have shown that the public hates their threat of the "nuclear option",. so now they're backtracking and saying the phrase is wholly a creation of their detractors.

This is exactly like "privatization". The GOP invented the phrase and when the American people shit all over their idea, they try not to use the term they invented.

They blew privatization, they badly misread Americans feelings about the Schiavo case and the economy is tanking bigtime. Gas prices are through the roof (between $2.70 and $3.05 here in the Bay Area). Their majority leader is taking it up the ass for his illegal shenanigans. The public has shown increasing POSITIVE response the the Democrats filibustering their radical nominees and support the Left keeping the right in check.

The Republicans have got nothing right now. they're floundering with bad press and they've got nothing good to point to.

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David Sirota's blog last week listed the info that the Bush administration has tried to erase since coming into office:

Knight-Ridder reports today that the Bush administration announced yesterday that it has "decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered."

When unemployment was peaking in Bush's first term, the White House tried to stop publishing the Labor Department's regular report on mass layoffs.

In 2003, when the nation's governors came to Washington to complain about inadequate federal funding for the states, the Bush administration decided to stop publishing the budget report that states use to see what money they are, or aren't, getting.

In 2003, the National Council for Research on Women found that information about discrimination against women has gone missing from government Web sites, including 25 reports from the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau.

In 2002, Democrats uncovered evidence that the Bush administration was removing health information from government websites. Specifically, the administration deleted data showing that abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer from government websites. That scientific data was seen by the White House as a direct affront to the pro-life movement.