When the Going Gets Tough... (or, Don't Forget Jane Fonda)
Nope, it's not a flag burning amendment this time. Rather, a return to everyone's favorite scapegoat chestnut: LIBERALS! First up, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman:

"It's disappointing that once again, so many Democrat leaders are taking their political cues from the far-left, Moveon wing of the party. The bottom line is Karl Rove was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story based on a false premise and the Democrats are engaging in blatant partisan political attacks."

And it seems that this is the full-court press strategy of the Republican Noise Machine; RawStory has the actual "talking points memo" available for your perusal.

Next up, Bill O'Really, who in his own nighlty broadcast "talking points memo" responds to the anti-American sentiment he discovered whilst travelling around Europe last week as well as a recent BBC interview with everyone's favorite Hollywood collaborator, Jane Fonda (bolding mine for maximum effect):

As you may know, I was in Europe last week. And whenever the discussion turned to Iraq, it was not about deposing Saddam's brutal regime, or about allowing millions of Iraqis to vote for the first time in decades, or about the terrorist Zarqawi beheading civilians and blowing up women and children. No, on the telly, Iraq was all about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Thank you, left-wing media. [...] I watched in amazement as a BBC interviewer named Gavin Essler baited an incredibly dim Jane Fonda into putting the worst possible face on her country. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GAVIN ESSLER, BBC: But is it like the Vietnam days in the sense that — is it even worse than the Vietnam days in some ways— because people around the world don't think that the Bush administration is telling the truth about why they went to war and what the consequences of war in Iraq might be? JANE FONDA, ACTRESS: I don't know about better or worse than Vietnam. Externally, I'm not sure it's worse than Vietnam. We were being so severely criticized around the world because of the war in Vietnam, which is one of the reasons that it ended, because of world opinion. But I think that the situation inside the United States right now is worse than then. It's really scary. (END VIDEO CLIP) What is really scary is that millions of people all over the world believe what Miss Fonda is saying. They believe the USA is going through another Vietnam-like upheaval, which is far from the truth. [...] Once again, "Talking Points" urges all Americans to understand that people like Jane Fonda (search) do damage to the country, even though the woman probably doesn't realize it. The only way to defeat worldwide terrorism is for the world to unite against it and overcome differences in support of that greater good. Maybe the London killings will help in that effort.

Yes, Bill. To conjure up some Martha Stewart mojo, it's a good thing that terrorists bombed London. What a ______ (you can fill in the blanks; I'm trying to give my pottymouth a rest).