crybabyOh, for f*&k’s sake.

As Congress considers a series of legislation that would drastically alter the course and direction of the Iraq War, one prominent Republican Senator will be focusing his efforts on condemning the newspaper advertisement of an anti-war group.

The Huffington Post has learned that Senator John Cornyn, R-TX, will introduce a sense of the Senate resolution Thursday, criticizing MoveOn.org’s recent advertisement in the New York Times. The ad called into question the credibility of Lt. General David Petraeus, suggesting the pseudonym “Betray Us.”

Yes, whatever meager scraps of perspective the Whiny-Ass Titty Baby Party may have ever had have clearly gone out the window in a cloud of swirling fauxtrage since MoveOn printed their ad in the NYT last week. But ironically none of the Beltway Bobbleheads have any kind of problem whatsoever with Ari Fleischer’s pet propaganda project, Freedom Swatch, which is exactly what the Righty Screamers claim MoveOn is, a millionaire-funded pressure group dedicated entirely to spewing filthy lies and propaganda about the war. Imagine that.

Watch how this works:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today Freedom’s Watch released a new television ad condemning the recent tactics used by the anti-victory group MoveOn.org. The Freedom’s Watch ad specifically takes issue with MoveOn.org’s accusation of betrayal against General David Petraeus in a New York Times print ad this week. General Petraeus was testifying before Congress on the success of the recent troop surge in Iraq.

“The reason we produced this ad is because like many Americans we are disgusted by the outrageous tactics MoveOn.org has employed,” said Bradley A. Blakeman, President of Freedom’s Watch. “Several news organizations and political leaders have already condemned the MoveOn ad. To question the character and patriotism of brave men and women who combat terrorism everyday is too much, it’s in poor taste and it will not go unchallenged.”

Um, no. “Poor taste” is using a wounded vet in an ad that falsely conflates the attacks of 9/11 with the Iraq War and then sending your douchebag spokesman on TV without his ever even bothering to learn that soldier’s name.

So, jump forward to tonight’s Hardball where pudding-faced pathological liar Fleischer appeared with guest host Mike Barnacle. Barnacle ran the injured vet clip and immediately fell to his knees to fellate his guest and barrage him with warm, fuzzy softball questions. Except that Fleischer wasn’t even ready to swing for the softballs. In fact, he seemed to have come to the plate without a bat in hand at all.

Think Progress:

On MSNBC’s Hardball tonight, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who is leading a White House front group to defend Bush’s escalation, was unable to name the wounded Iraq veteran featured in his organization’s pro-war ad. “I don’t have his name in front of me,” said Fleischer when asked by host Mike Barnicle if he knew the soldier’s name.

Here is Eric Boehlert from Media Matters:

Tactics and etiquette, that’s what excites the Beltway press corps. And last week, the press loved the Republican tactic of campaigning against the MoveOn print ad. (“A brilliant straw man,” gushed NBC’s Chuck Todd.) And last week, the press tsk-tsked MoveOn’s lack of etiquette in raising doubts about a four-star general. As for the war itself? That kind of coverage can always wait for another week. (Newsrooms have little interest in chronicling what’s actually happening in Iraq. And FYI, ABC’s Nightline has now gone nine straight weeks without broadcasting a single substantive report from Iraq.)

But this is how Republicans work now. They constantly cast aspersions at the Democrats, using the troops and generals as human shields for their failed Iraq policy. They won’t (or can’t) cowboy up and face their failures so they spend all their time smearing the people like MoveOn who tell the truth.

And while they’re all throwing their arms out of the socket to wag their fingers at MoveOn, they’re cheerfully voting down legislation that would improve the quality of life for soldiers deployed in Iraq. Well, the Republicans and King of the Whiny Little Bitches, professional Nasty Little Man, Joe Lieberman.

Who does that? Who screams bloody murder about the Democrats “smearing” a General and then turns around and denies the troops the time at home they need to fight effectively, hold their families together, and keep from going insane?

The fucking Republicans, that’s who, to whom the troops are just props, “chew toys” that they don’t care at all about until someone else looks like they might be interested in them. But then, oh, then, they’re the most important people in the world. Until they need something like body armor, or rest, of course, or until they start telling the truth about the war in public. Then they’re traitors who must be slandered and maligned at all costs.

Where, oh, where will it end?