DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) released this statement, making it clear that Democrats will use Republican condemnation of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as an issue of the GOP’s basic patriotism:
“The outrageous reaction by Rush Limbaugh, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, and others to President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is the latest sad example of Republicans putting politics before country by rooting for America to fail. House Republicans should immediately condemn these outrageous statements asserting that they are ‘on the same side as the Taliban.’
“Rush Limbaugh and his Republican allies may, as Rush Limbaugh said, ‘all agree with the Taliban and Iran,’ but millions of Americans see the President’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize as an affirmation of our nation’s values and it should be celebrated.
“Democrats and Republicans should join President Obama in seeing this award as a call to action against the common economic and security challenges we all share.”
