Why bother rebuking him? The guy has no sense of common decency and doesn’t get it that the House should be above the rantings of those who suffer from BDS. He’s just one more example of the coursing of our culture:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were “inappropriate” comments about Iraq during a congressional debate.
During a debate on children’s health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to “get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
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Pelosi issued a statement Friday evening rapping Stark, who is in his 18th term representing the liberal East Bay. He’s California’s longest-serving House members.
“While members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand-providing health care for America’s children,” Pelosi said.
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After numerous Republicans called on him to apologize, Stark said it was they who should be apologizing, for failing to provide the votes to override Bush’s veto.
posted October 19, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Guess you forgot about this junk.http://youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ
posted October 19, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Gosh you’re right O’Brien. The president making a joke about himself at a dinner where jokes are supposed to be made is the same thing as a US Senator standing up and making a dispicable accusation against the President.The moral relativism you display is astounding.You link is just another ridiculous attempt by you to deflect and shift the goalposts.
posted October 20, 2007 at 2:17 am
Anonymous,Oh, so you see nothing wrong with Bush standing around making jokes about missing WMDs while our soldiers were, and still are, in Iraq fighting and dying?YOUR moral relativism is more than astounding, it is disgusting. Everyone in that room should have been ashamed of themselves, as should their apologists.But then again, maybe you are just like many other right wingers around this place – one of big talk and little participation.
posted October 20, 2007 at 1:40 pm
This guy should resign.And attempting moral equivalence by crying “they do it to” even if right doesn’t somehow justify this wretch’s statements.Shame doesn’t even exist to people like him and the ones who defend him.
posted October 20, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Oh, so you see nothing wrong with Bush standing around making jokes about missing WMDs while our soldiers were, and still are, in Iraq fighting and dying?The White House Correspondance Dinner is “standing around?” The level of your ignorance is astounding.Let’s review….. Bush makes a self defacing remark during a speech where it is customary for the President to make such a speech. Stark makes a speech on the floor of Senate attacking the President. His speech is rightfully noted to be contrary to the rules of the Senate to say nothing of outside the confines of moral decency.Yet you somehow think the two speeches have some sort of equilivancy?What world do you live in?Stark’s comments made on the floor of the Senate are indefensible. The fact that you try to defend them says more about you than it does anything else.
posted October 22, 2007 at 2:53 am
Anonymous,What is it with you wingnuts that always use the idiotic argument of, “if you don’t condemn it, then you believe it.” BOTH of these instances were poor and both should have been condemned. Does that make you feel better? Now, for ignorance, show me where I defended Stark’s comment? You won’t find it. Maybe you should be the one to try some remedial reading lessons. But one of my points was, where was the right’s outrage when Bush did get up and make those sickening comments, regardless if they were jokes, while our soldiers were sent to Iraq based on his fantasies of WMDs?”Self defacing”…I wonder how you might perceive Bush’s jokes if you were in Iraq.Lastly, the “standing around” part was not based on “ignorance” but just phrasing. But hey, as I keep finding out, you folks that preach the “family values” line are pretty much quite the non-practicing type anyway. And I forget, you people are the same crowd who still to this day defend people who outed a COVERT CIA Agent who was working on preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
posted October 22, 2007 at 11:11 am
Now, for ignorance, show me where I defended Stark’s comment? You won’t find it. Maybe you should be the one to try some remedial reading lessons. You mean all your blustering about “maybe he was thinking about this…” wasn’t a defense of his comments?Of course it was.But one of my points was, where was the right’s outrage when Bush did get up and make those sickening comments, regardless if they were jokes, while our soldiers were sent to Iraq based on his fantasies of WMDs?The speech was shown to soldiers in Iraq at the time. They laughed and took it as a joke like normal people would. Once again, another deflection by you fails miserably.“Self defacing”…I wonder how you might perceive Bush’s jokes if you were in Iraq.I would have laughed at it – as would any sane person.And I forget, you people are the same crowd who still to this day defend people who outed a COVERT CIA Agent who was working on preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.Oh good grief. Another shift and another poor attempt at deflection. In case you forgot, the agent was covert and her own husband had “outed” her several times. What is your next deflection? What is your next attempt at saying “we did this, but you did this and that makes it right!”