IN yet another example of how clueless, craven, complicit, and (even) cowardly the DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP is, NANCY PELOSI - nominal "leader" of Congress - directs her OUTRAGE at FELLOW DEMOCRATIC Representative PETE STARKE, (D-CA), who stated the obvious: that the SMIRKING PRESIDENT who STOLE THE ELECTION of 2000, then DID NOTHING to prevent 9-11 despite being PERSONALLY WARNED on NUMEROUS OCCASIONS "Al Qaida terrorists determined to attack in America" - the president who SQUANDERS US military lives, and taxpayer treasure in Iraq; who DRAGS THE US REPUTATION into the mire of HIRED GUNMEN (Blackwater) OPERATING UNDER DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY... the president who AWARDS HIS CRONIES WITH BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACTS while NEW ORLEANS HOMEOWNERS must PAY MORTGAGES on homes THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO REBUILD...
FOR SHAME, NANCY PELOSI! YOU ARE _ROBBING_ us Democratic voters of TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of PR and campaign advertising costs. You GIVE CONVICTED DRUG ADDICT RUSH LIMBAUGH the moral values media/PR HIGH GROUND... You give RUPERT MURDOCH a FREE PASS for BUSTING UNIONS throughout his career - while making business deals with COMMUNIST CHINA senior officials... You give GENERAL ELECTRIC co. a FREE PASS for PROFITING FROM WAR while their "news" network reports on war; You GIVE Dick Cheney a FREE PASS for OUTING an entire undercover CIA operation in order to SMEAR a war critic (if not as a DELIBERATE ATTEMPT to GUT America's best WMD surveillance program in Iran), and then GIVE Mr. Bush a FREE PASS for PARDONING Scooter Libby, after the Independent Prosecutor DID YOUR JOB of PROVING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in the CIA outing/PERJURY case....
NANCY PELOSI, YOU ARE COMPLICIT with the CRIMES, ABUSES, and EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL POWER GRAB of the Bush-Cheney White House. You are ROBBING US, as John Kerry did before you, of an HONEST FIGHT, ROBBING US of an outraged and vocal exposition of the CRIMES and ABUSES of the Bush White House.
When Mr. BUSH SMIRKS, before cameras of the entire world, about WORLD WAR III, it it because YOU ARE TOO COWARDLY to perform your CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES of INVESTIGATING (through impeachment process) HIGH CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS.
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Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments
Erica Werner
October 19, 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071019/congressman-s-outburst/
WASHINGTON — 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."
Condemnations rolled in from Republican politicians, right-leaning bloggers had a field day, and a White House spokesman declined to "dignify those remarks" with a response.
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.
Stark's comment came as the House failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of legislation to expand the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"You don't have money to fund the war or children," Stark accused Republicans. "But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
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.
Asked for a White House response Friday, spokesman Tony Fratto said: "I see absolutely no reason to dignify those remarks with a comment."
