Alexander to White House: 'Don't Make An Enemies List'

shorter Alexander "don't start beating your wife !"

jaysus

I don't think there's enough paper for that list.

Let's see -- the Nixon enemies list was secret, attempted to use the IRS, FBI, CIA and other government agencies to attack the people on the list, and even went so far as to break into the office of the psychiatrist of one person (Daniel Ellsburg) on the list.

President Obama and the Democrats, on the other hand, are publicly discussing legislation to take away the insurance companies' anti-trust exemption in order to increase the possibility of competition in the insurance market (after the industry went all out to oppose any possibility of meaningful competition in the health reform bill).

They are also standing up and publicly challenging those who spread outrageous lies about the contents of the health reform bill, not having the FBI investigate them.

And they have the temerity to publicly say what everyone knows -- that Fox News is nothing more than a shill for right wing talking points and instigator of hate-inspired attacks on the President (and won't cover the Obama administration in a "fair and balanced" way no matter what Gibbs et al do).

Maybe it isn't surprising that an ex-Nixon staffer like Alexander can't see the difference between the two -- seems like another case of a Republican projecting their own nefarious intentions onto their opponents.

Do you have to pass some sort of stupid test to be a Senator from a Southern state and if you're not stupid enough they won't let you run?

I'm sure Sessions, Vitter, Landrieu, Lincoln, Alexander, DeMint, Bunning, Chambliss and most of the others would pass with flying colors.

Hey wait, isn't that exactly what someone on Fox (Hannity?) said? Do these people just copy talking points and send them out to all their spokesmen? Fox, Senate GOP, Dana and other talking heads, etc? Are they even capable of dressing up the talking points a little to own them? Sheesh

It is a commentary on Lamar Alexander and his Republican cronies that the worst insult they can think of to smear a Democrat is to accuse the Democrat of acting like a Republican, a Republican President, at that.

Well, nice try Lamar, but no one is taking the bait. Nixon, like Bush, was a criminal. Obama is simply picking his way through the mess left by the previous administrations - he's making progress and it hasnt even been a year yet.

When those other issues, you say you care about so much - education, global climate change, etc. - come up for decision time, let's see where you land : in the right-left false dichotomy of screaming heads and sanctimonious blovators or for American citizens.

Yes, he should make a list! Put the party of no on the top of it and give it to them! We are tired of these obstructionists. Go 'n get them!

"Nixon secretly hired G. Gordon Liddy, William McCord and other domestic terrorists to perform burglaries and other illegal activities against American citizens."

James McCord.

Just sayin'.

So now Republicans are reduced to cpomplaining about what a mean bully Obama is. Poor Conservatives!

The White House response should be "You didn't say 'please'"...

have you ever noticed the good ol' gop's constant criticisms of barack are exactly what they have done, what they would do, what those who support them do?

death panels - their health insurance industry pals already do that by denying care; government between you and your doctor - again their health insurance pals already do that with rationing; enemies list - big fav of karl rove.

go ahead, try yourself, think of any stupid remark from any republican and you can find the example of that being exactly what they have done.

is that transference or a guilty conscience; but then i'm not convinced they have any conscience or humanity; or for that matter any patriotism defined as the "most benefit to the most people."

I suppose Lamar is still smarting from the fact that his little GM experiment, Saturn, is dead.