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I Guess Dissent Is No Longer Patriotic
Rhymes With Right — ... sever financial losses for him and his wife. But since he has a D after his name, I suspect that the conflict of interest will be ignored and he will be permitted o cast aspersions on the patriotism of political dissenters. Frankly, I'd love to see Granholm's disclosure forms as well. I know what I think we would find there, and it would certainly call into question whether her words were based upon the best interests of the country or the best interests of her personal finances. H/T The Next Right

The New Swiftboating
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Jon Henke reports on it. I suppose that we won’t be seeing “Dissent Is The Highest Form Of Patriotism” stickers anymore. ...

The New Swiftboating
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Jon Henke reports on it . I suppose that we won't be seeing "Dissent Is The Highest Form Of Patriotism" stickers anymore. Honestly, can the hypocrisy of Granholm, Dingell and others be any more appalling? As the so-called "Dean of the House," Dingell has championed a failed auto industry for the whole of his nearly five decades on Capitol Hill. Every time the domestic automobile manufacturers have asked him to jump, his only questions were "how high?" and "how often." In return for this fawning obsequiousness, when it came to improving their own industry, the automobile ...

Unpatriotic Republicans?
Weekly Standard Blog — In light of John Dingell's and Jennifer Granholm's recent statements attacking the patriotism of Republicans who opposed the auto bailout, John Henke rounds up a few other recent examples of Democrats' criticism of "un-American" and "anti-patriotic" Republicans: "[Some Southern Senators] unpatriotically blocked a bill..." -- Rep. Dingell "It is unacceptable for this un-American, frankly, behavior of these U.S. senators..." -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm [...] "John Ashcroft is not a patriot."—Howard Dean "[In the Bush administration, there is] a group of people around the President whose main allegiance is to each other ...

Red, White, And Partisan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Jon Henke calls out Democrats impugning the patriotism of Republicans.

Dyslexics of the World Untie!
Balloon Juice — ... In what may be the limpest battle cry to date (except, perhaps, for the title of this post), Jon Henke states that it is Republicans who are the perennial victims of having their patriotism questioned, and it is the lazy liberal media’s fault for not calling the Democrats on it: ...

Democrats: 55% of America is unpatriotic.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Live by the opinion poll, die by the opinion poll: Majority of Public Opposes Auto Rescue Poll Finds Most Blame Industry for Problems, Believe Failure Won’t Hurt Economy Most Americans continue to oppose a government-backed rescue plan for Detroit’s Big Three automakers as majorities blame the industry for its own problems and are unconvinced failure would hurt the economy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Overall, 55 percent of those polled oppose the latest plan that Chrysler, Ford and General Motors executives pitched to Congress last week, on par with public opposition to earlier, ...