It’s about God Damn time. FINALLY, a REAL Democrat had the nerve to react to the GOPers attacks on the children of working Americans. After the SCHIP bill failed to muster enough support to overide the rat bastard in chief’s veto AGAIN, Rep Pete Stark stood up on the House floor and told it like it IS! You can hear the California Congressman’s remarks here. Of COURSE the reich-wing smear merchants went into overdrive in fits of frenzied apoplexy, that’s to be expected. Fish-face malkin attacks two-year-old girls and twelve year-old boys. It goes to character. But pelosi. Jesus. Now SHE’S attacking him too. I guess her idiotic response goes to character as well, JUST LIKE MALKIN! I assume the d-trip emanuele has HIS panties in a bunch as well, because HE is a dog-log Democrat that wants to recreate the Democratic candidates into flaccid robots HE thinks Americans will vote for. WRONG…. BOTH of you limp-dicks. After the last election, we all cheered because we elected the first woman speaker of the house. Well, I didn’t care about gender, I care about COMPETENCE. She has been a miserable disappointment. One thing Americans hate is a pussy. I have heard with my own ears a Democratic candidate say” I can’t talk about that because they’ll make us look weak on(fill in the blank)”. THAT CANDIDATE LOST, and will probably loose again.
Congressman Stark has served a long time. He has been a champion for little kid’s health care for a long time. He is right. Look for the lie in his remarks, you won’t find one. Look for the backbone in our (Democratic) leadership, likewise, you won’t find one. The time has come to call a spade a spade. Madam Speaker, YOU are the only thing standing between a landslide Democratic victory in next years election and a shocking humiliating defeat. If you lack the stomach to fight back against the vast right-wing machine, step down and let someone who cares more about our soldiers, little kids health and American values lead. Your zeal for civility plays well in the PTA, but NOT in hardball politics.Grow a set or get out.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Frank, you’re right on the money here. She needs to step down if she can’t do any better than this.
October 20th, 2007 at 11:26 am
NObody can say I haven’t given the Dem leadership every possible chance to show they deserve my defense of their actions. I have been beat up a few times on blogs for doing just that. I have talked to a few folks in DC lately and there is a huge amount of discontent with both Reid AND pelosi. The concept they just can’t grasp (living in the bubble of DC and fund raisers at rich people’s mansions) is that us poor schmucks perceive their “civility” as caving in to the neo-tards bullying tactics. The OTHER thing they just don’t get is the oxi-rush/spongebill orielly crowd are going to smear us no matter WHAT we do or say. The donna brazille/bob schrum “don’t resort to their level” loosing “strateegery” is just that. If the head Dems keep listening to those cowards we will loose our country.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Frank, again, I agree. It’s not just that we all know, no matter what happens, the right will never play nice… to be honest, I’m simply tired of being nice. I’m tired of taking the high road and having nothing to show for it but egg on my face and my country’s future teetering on the edge.
To get our country back, it’s not enough that we’re faced with so many enemies. (this administration, a complicit MSM, an extremely large and vocal rightwing punditry, a massive undereducated and easily fooled base of voters). We also have to deal with spineless democratic leaders, who spend way too much time worrying if their shoes matches their belts.
Those people who were upset by the elections of ’06 are laughing their asses off today.
October 20th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
When I was in Junior High I had an English teacher who used to tell me “It’s never too late, until it’s too late”. That phrase has been going through mind a LOT lately.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Fortney “Pete” Stark
Is this him?
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=503
If so, ALL of us need to contact his local and DC offices by phones, email, mail and fax! We need to FLOOD him with GOOD vibes! I guess they have been getting more negative calls and emails, so… lets changes that NOW!
October 20th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Yep that’s him.