Oh SNAP! Go Massa and Walz! Smackdown of Rumsfeld

via Fighting 29th and crossposted at The Big Orange

Eric Massa and Tim Walz were on a DNC conference call this morning with reporters in response to Rumsfeld’s outrageous statements on Tuesday to veterans at an American Legion meeting. AP reports Rumsfeld said that:

the world faces “a new type of fascism” and warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement. Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration’s war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, “a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies.”

Democrats Massa and Walz, and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, co-chair of the DNC’s Veterans and Military Families Council spoke to reporters in response:

Massa:

“After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with Secretary Rumsfeld on, it is true: the American people are being lied to and I totally agree with Secretary Rumsfeld,” Eric Massa, a Navy veteran, said Wednesday. “What I disagree with is the fact that he’s the one doing the lying.”

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Massa, who is challenging one-term Republican Rep. Randy Kuhl, said he was outraged by Rumsfeld’s comments and faulted him for blaming the media for his own misstatements and missteps.

Walz:

Walz, a Minnesota schoolteacher and veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard, said the Bush administration has no effective plan to secure the country.

“This thing has disintegrated,” Walz said of Iraq. “On the macro level, there’s an absolute failure.”

This is a great rapid media response from the DNC. Give them some props, and Go netroots candidates! Go Fighting Dems!

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