My goodness — I’m not entirely sure how I can express my rage at that… Tom DeLay without using horrific profanity and really, really, really nasty words.
Take a glance at what he said yesterday:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) hastily called a news conference to answer Murtha’s comments and said, “In a calculated and craven political stunt, the national Democrat Party declared its surrender in the war on terror.
“For two years, they have strutted down to the floor of the House and, out of sheer, brazen partisanship, undermined our troops, scoffed at our coalition, and shown the terrorists of this world that there are some Americans who will cower under their threats,” DeLay said. “They want to win the White House more than they want to win the war.”
He said this in response to a Democrat who stood up and called for more troops to be sent to Iraq.
Murtha said he was exasperated by the administration’s refusal to send at least 200,000 troops to stabilize Iraq, although he said more are needed now. He said U.S. troops “are suffering because of the lack of planning by those people over there at the Pentagon” and “bad intelligence, inept planning, careless mistakes made by the architect of this war.
“We cannot prevail in this war with the policy that is going today,” said Murtha, a 32-year House member. “We either have to mobilize or we have to get out.”
And boy, am I tired of this Republican directive to always refer to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat” Party. I can only assume they do this because they don’t want people to equate the Democrats with Democracy.
