Right-Wing Asserts 9/11 National Day of Service to Erase Day as GOP Tool

This is interesting. 9/11 victims' families have long recommended making the date a national day of service. President Bush, not President Obama, called for it first. Yet the right is saying that such a day of service would make the date one of "of leftist celebration and statist idolatry."

Whoa, I always thought such a day would mark it as a memorial and be good. So, it's good when Bush suggests it (or at least there was no protest), but bad when the Democrats support it. I see.

Here's the real reason, and it's one that I've posited in the past. The GOP loves to scare folks into voting for their candidates. And that's freely noted by American Spectator:

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

A "day of fear that helps Republicans." If anyone is desecrating the memory of 9/11, it's a thought like this. This is politicizing 9/11 for the right. That's better?

The bill also had strong GOP support. Seventy House Republicans and 22 GOP senators voted for the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act, which established the National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.

An example: Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, who said:

“America came together in the aftermath of 9/11, reminding us what it truly means to be part of this great nation. By making 9/11 a national day of service, that same spirit of giving will continue in a day of remembrance, unity, and selflessness.”

Remembrance, unity, and selflessness. Let's think along those lines, instead of politicizing it for our advantage, can we?