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So-called torture report is Democrats' distraction from these six unpleasant issues



You have to ask: If it's such a serious issue for the Bush Administration to have "tortured" detained terrorists back when we still had a president who cared about fighting terror, why did Senate Democrats wait seven years to release their report on this purported atrocity?

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The answer is simple: Politics. On the one hand, they're running out of time as the Senate majority. But more importantly, there are serious issues that demand the attention of the public, and it's not in Democrats' interests to have the public pay attention to these things. That's why, having kept this assortment of their uninformed opinions disguised as a "report" in their back pockets for seven years, they're releasing it now. It's time for a series of lectures about how horrible it is to "torture" terrorists so we don't talk about a whole host of other things, particularly these things:
  1. The election results, both federal and state. With Democrats having gotten their clocks cleaned at every level, we can't spend time mulling the aspects of governance under the Democrats that have everyone so dissatisfied. Better to rehash things the Democrats used to upset people a decade ago when Republicans were in power. That's much more relevant.
  2. Grubergate. Coincidence that the "report" on "torture" came out the same day Jonathan Gruber was hauled in front of Congress to testify about the Democrats' misleading of the American people - made necessary, he explains, by our "stupidity"? I think not. Speaking of which . . .
  3. ObamaCare. It's imploding, and even past and present Democrat senators like Chuck Schumer and Tom Harkin are now admitting it's a train wreck and was a bad idea in the first place. What do you do with that? Change the subject to "torture," of course!.
  4. Unemployment. Now you might think Democrats would want to talk about this because the unemployment rate as traditionally announced by the Labor Department is down. But you know what? The real unemployment rate, which counts the underemployed and those who have given up looking for work, exceeds 10 percent. Pay much attention to the real employment picture and it's trouble for Democrats.
  5. The IRS scandal. Oh no, this hasn't gone away. Lois Lerner's e-mails have finally been recovered and they are sure to contain a treasure trove of information about how the IRS targeted conservative groups. We already know that certain senators, including Chuck Schumer and Carl Levin, publicly demanded that the IRS do this. Any bets on whether it was understood to be a priority of the Obama White House as well?
  6. The national debt passed $18 trillion in the last couple of weeks, and you barely heard a word about it from the media. Now the "report" on "torture" gives them another excuse to ignore the story. By the way, in case you've forgotten, $10 trillion of that was accumulated under the 43 presidents from Washington to Bush. That means $8 trillion has been accumulated under Obama. Now that's some achievement.
Better change the subject to something! Hey Senator Feinstein! Do we still have that torture report sitting around somewhere? Better release it now or the news cycle is going to kill us!


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