Salon.com - War Room: "That's right, Sen. Cornyn. It's wrong to 'appropriate a national tragedy' to 'further a political interest,' and that's something your party would never do. It's not like the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee once offered photos of George W. Bush on 9/11 in exchange for campaign contributions. It's not like the Republican National Committee decided to hold its 2004 convention later than usual and in New York to capitalize on a 9/11 anniversary. It's not like the Bush-Cheney campaign ran a campaign ad featuring footage of the destroyed World Trade Center or firefighters carrying a flag-covered body. And it's not like the president invokes the memories of 9/11 again and again and again to sell his war on Iraq, to obscure the effects of his tax cuts, to get himself reelected and to gussy up his administration's response to Katrina."

(Via Salon.)