A set of talking points sent out yesterday by the staff of House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) encouraged House Republican press staff to use a quote from Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) — a onetime Democrat — as a means of attacking Democratic resolutions calling for US redeployment.

The full talking points leaked to RAW STORY are printed below. They carried the image above in an html-formatted email.

“House and Senate Democrat leaders have stated they oppose the increase in troops, and their whole idea of troop ‘redeployment’ would amount to little more than pulling out our troops and walking away,” the release says.

“As Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) [sic] told the Wall Street Journal last week:

“The people in Congress, and the public, were quite right in saying the president’s got to come up with a different approach. And he did. It’s better than any other plan I’ve seen because it holds the hope of success. Most of the other plans are effectively just giving up and walking away.”

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have both recently applauded Lieberman in public comments the last few weeks, raising the possibility that the highlighting of Lieberman’s comments may have been a coordinated effort.

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