MoveOn Responds To Senate Vote
MoveOn.org is promising to double its TV ad buy condemning Republican senators who voted against an amendment Wednesday to allow troops serving in Iraq equal time at home with their families between deployments.
The liberal netroots group escalated its attack on the Iraq War with more personal attacks against those who support it in a new TV ad Thursday. The latest one accuses Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Republicans of a "betrayal of trust" for their vote against the troop deployment amendment from Sen. James Webb, D-Va.
MoveOn announced the additional add buy about an hour after Senate Republicans pushed Democrats to denounce MoveOn for its New York Times ad with the headline "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" that ran earlier this month. Today the Senate passed a non-binding resolution condemning MoveOn for the newspaper ad targeting Gen. David Petraeus that passed 72-25. (link: http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1465
Earlier in the day President Bush weighed in at a news conference Thursday in which he called the original MoveOn.org print ad "disgusting" and said he was disappointed more Democratic leaders did not criticize it.http://http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/presidential-pr.html (link: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/presidential-pr.html)
In a statement emailed to reporters, "Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org’s political action committee, responded to Bush's statement, saying "what's disgusting is that the president has more interest in political attacks than developing an exit strategy to get our troops out of Iraq and end this awful war."
The liberal blog OpenLeft promised to provide a list of Democrats who voted against MoveOn in a non-binding resolution condemning MoveOn for the newspaper ad targeting Petraeus that passed 72-25.
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