And when Pete Stark stood up to accuse the president of the United States of having no conscience about the deaths of the thousands of valiant troops he sent on a criminal war mission (for his "amusement" Stark said), while at the same time stealing the medicines out of the mouths of babes, not a word was voiced in protest by the Republicans present in the moment. There was only a mild generalized statement from the chair about avoiding personal references to the president.
And the reason there was not a peep of actual outrage when Stark spoke those indicting words (that they are so howling about now), is that they knew in what was left of their hearts that it was all shamefully true.
How unlike the instant and unanimous reaction of the Democrats, when mean Jean Schmidt called John Murtha a coward for wanting to bring our troops home from the senseless slaughter, shouting at the chair to take her words down. And did Schmidt sincerely apologize for anything? Of course not. No Republican ever apologizes unless forced to. They just blame the media for accurately reporting their words, and blame our ears for hearing what they said and meant.
So let us be clear. What Pete Stark said was not over the line.
It was not over the top, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with Stark's choice of words.
We are talking about a president who, when he was not being obstinately surly, has snickered his way through every press conference since he lied us into invading Iraq. We are talking about a president who was making funny faces into the camera in the seconds before he went live on the air to announce the assault. And who, with the raucous approval of the entire media press corps, thought those lies were just a laugh riot in hindsight.
If They Want A Condemnation We'll Give Them One
But in an attempt to again shut up any courageous voice of dissent, the right wing noise machine is trying after the fact to drum up messages of condemnation. So they want a condemnation do they? Well we'll give them one. This action page will send your personal message on the subject, "We condemn the entire Republican leadership."
We condemn the Republican leadership for mercilessly obstructing every congressional action of merit, even where that action was supported by the overwhelming majority of the American people, as in their engineering of the failure to override the veto of SCHIP (latest poll 81% supporting).
We condemn the Republican leadership for resorting to filibusters at a historic record pace, since they lost the majorities in Congress they had done nothing with but abuse.
We condemn the Republican leadership for doing nothing to hold the White House accountable for their lies and shredding of the Constitution, through illegal wiretaps, torture and all, because of their greed for political power, and not allowing even investigations in these matters.
We condemn the Republican leadership for using our troops as political props, while exploiting their suffering and death for the profit of their war profiteer contributors.
We condemn the Republican leadership for their cynical and sinful hypocrisy in being the most corrupt and scandalous pack of thieves who have ever held national office, now resigning at an unprecedented clip (or reneging on the promise to do so), all the while posturing to their gullible diehard supporters as the most righteous.
I read an artile on OpEdNews yesterday regarding the same topic. I was outraged then about the cowardly Republicans, so I threw my two cents in and posted a comment, and I am still outraged.
To add insult to injury I also saw in today's article a reference from "the chair about voicing an opinion about the President". Now what's this about?? Anyone who voices an opinion about President Shrub is going to get reprimanded?? Seriously, I'd like to know? And who was in "the chair" Obviously a Republican. Forgive my ignorance as I don't have the COMPLETE story I'm commenting on yet, but had it not been for Op/Ed/News, I wouldn't haven known about this story at all. being busy with other things.
Avoiding personal references to the President. I'm assuming derogatory. Who of any intelligence is saying anything GOOD about him? Now THAT'S an Op/Ed/News piece of it's own.
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on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 7:51:37 PM
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