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On the Right on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:03:50 PM
This is the lead in to a Factcheck.org article. You can go to the site and read the entire article. This is nothing new to those of us that follow this sort of double talk by liberals be they Democrats or their fellow travelers.
MoveOn.org: Caught Red-Handed Applying A Double Standard
The liberal group attacks 3 Republicans for voting for military spending bills, but endorses Democrats who voted the same way.
August 30, 2006
Summary
MoveOn.org
Political Action attacks three Republican House members in TV ads
saying they were "caught red-handed" supporting money spent on
Halliburton contracts and wasteful Iraq projects. But a majority of
Democrats voted the same way on most of the same measures, usually
overwhelmingly. MoveOn endorses one Democratic House member who voted
the same way 10 out of 14 times, and two senators who voted for the
same measures every time they reached a recorded vote in the Senate.
Another
ad says the same three Republicans were "caught red-handed" taking
donations from military contractors while failing to support penalties
for contractors who overcharge. In fact the donations were relatively
small and MoveOn offers no evidence the votes were influenced by
money. Furthermore severe penalties already exist for fraud against the
Pentagon. What the targeted Republicans opposed were Democratic
proposals to increase penalties.