Casting the First Stone

Progress Report: It was the penultimate day of the Republican National Convention and vitriol was spreading like a sunrise.

On a night when the theme was supposed to be "Land of Opportunity" – focusing on the party's domestic record and second term agenda – Vice President Dick Cheney set the tone. In a 2,800-word speech, Cheney devoted just 50 words of his speech to health care, 92 to the economy and 102 to education. There was no mention of energy policy, trade or the environment. Even Iraq, undoubtedly the focus of Cheney's term in office, merited just 34 words. Number of words Cheney devoted to personally attacking and distorting the record of John Kerry: 671.

THE SENSITIVE HYPOCRISY: Cheney mocked John Kerry for promising to "fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror." He accused Kerry of believing "Al Qaeda will be impressed with our softer side." But President Bush has used the exact same term in the exact same way. On 3/4/01, Bush said, "because America is powerful, we must be sensitive about expressing our power and influence." Just last April, Cheney himself said, "We recognize that the presence of U.S. forces can in some cases present a burden on the local community. We're not insensitive to that. We work almost on a continual basis with the local officials to remove points of friction and reduce the extent to which problems arise in terms of those relationships."

They also continue lying about the Bush Recession.

GOP Blames Clinton.
Fact denied: Bush has worst recovery in 72 years.
They admitted then it was a Bush recession, now try to push it back to Clinton.
They've been caught revising, killing, and hiding economic data.