Monday, July 11, 2005

Durbin staffer trying to "muscle" Move America Forward

Hat tip to Richard Poe at Moonbat Central. Here is the original article from the Crystal Lake Northwest Herald.

And here is the article cited by Moonbat, from Cybercast News Service

Move America Forward has produced a television commercial critical of Sen. Richard Durbin and his comments comparing our treatment of War on Terror detainees to what the prisoners of the Nazis, the Soviet Gulags and those of Pol Pot suffered. Move America Forward's site is here, you can view that TV ad on their homepage.

An excerpt:

Someone from Durbin's office was quoted as telling the newspaper - in connection with Move America Forward -- "Have you ever seen that H&R Block commercial where the guy leans in and says, 'I see an audit'?"

"For the office of a United States senator to threaten reprisals from the IRS against an organization that is supporting our troops in harm's way is absolutely reprehensible," said Mark Washburn, executive director of Move America Forward.

"One of the grounds used to threaten impeachment of President Richard Nixon was that he politicized the IRS and tried to use IRS audits of his political enemies to shut them down or silence them. That is precisely what Senator Durbin's office is doing now, Washburn said.

"There is no place for that in American politics, and Senator Durbin must be held accountable."

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