Republicans Object To (Rep. Pete) Stark Comments On War

[sabra]

Source: CBS News/Politico

(The Politico) House Republicans objected today to comments made by outspoken liberal Democratic Rep. Pete Stark of California on the Iraq war during debate on the override of President Bush's veto of the children's health program.

Speaking on the House floor, Stark said, "Under the Republican plan, by
2017, we probably will have killed 20,000 soldiers in Iraq, spending
$200 billion."

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Earlier in the SCHIP debate, Stark had made other spirited remarks.

“You don't have money to fund the war or children,'' he said. "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."

Responding promptly and harshly to Stark, the National Republican Congressional Committee declared he had "trampled on the sacrifice of our troops."



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/18/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3381751.shtml

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video here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x63317

[berni_mccoy]

1. FUCK Republicans.

[rodeodance]

2. msnbc had a Red headed Repug on and Demanded an apology. They are not

letting this one drop.

[bluedog]

11. you mean this asswipe?

Adam Putnam



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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Florida's 12th district
:puke: :puke:

[saigon68]

20. He's a smirking little wimp

He's certainly a Chicken Hawk

[JBoy]

38. Here's a great picture of this dickwad in action

Fucking hilarious! Deserves a caption...

[peaches2003]

24. I'd like to wipe the smirk off his face

Adam Putnam is on C-Span a lot backing Bush up on the war. A real chicken hawk and well within the age of being able to enlist. (I looked up his age on his website to be sure.) I've tried to get into Washington Journal when he has been on to ask him why he is in DC and not Baghdad, but haven't been able to.

[monktonman]

3. ...and in other news....

Speaker Pelosi votes yea in support of bill censuring Rep. Peter Starks remarks.

On edit: thank you Mr Stark for saying what so many of us are thinking.

[musette_sf]

6. "Rep. Peter Starks"

it's Fortney "Pete" Stark.

he's my rep, he makes me proud, he's one of the few who has actually earned my vote.

[truebrit71]

15. Countdown to that headline becoming true in 4..3...2..

..1...

[Ian David]

16. You're fucking kidding me. Censuring or censoring? n/t

[stimbox]

19. Pelosi voted to censure Starks???

Man, she's so fuckin' lame.

[monktonman]

23. Its a joke homies, a joke. dont believe everything you read.

Tongue meet cheek

[stimbox]

32. sarcasm tag is your friend

:sarcasm: < that helps to prevent misunderstandings.

[Ken Burch]

4. The NRCC REALLY meant::

"We've made the troops into a sacrifice to the Ego God, and Stark trampled out the flames. How dare he criticize us for
giving up soldier's lives in OUR name!"

[C_U_L8R]

5. but did he say "amusement" like Lewis Black?

for the president's amyoooooooooooooosement

[tularetom]

7. Yep gotta keep them kids healthy so we can send 'em off to die

for oil.

The selfish repulican motive for supporting SCHIP.

Otherwise we may need YOUR kids Mr repub.

[leQ]

8. nice cat

[Ian David]

18. We need to breed an army of kids who can survive to adulthood without medical care. n/t

[SlingBlade]

9. TRUTH HURTS

DONT IT YOU FUKCING FAT BASTARDS

FKUCK U ALL TO HELL !

[devilgrrl]

41. Doesn't it?

eom

[Massachusetts]

10. I object to Republicans

[leftchick]

12. expect democrats to round on him too.

shades of the move-on ad.

[truebrit71]

14. I will be AMAZED if they don't...

...fucking spineless cowards...

[Mike Daniels]

13. Christ, all he has to do is say he was referring to the US paying Blackwater

millions of dollars for their services despite their constant fuck-ups.

[truebrit71]

17. "trampled on the sacrifice of our troops"? Gimme a fucking break...

...god how i DESPISE these GOP toadys.....

[Justitia]

21. Too. Fucking. Bad. The pukes get this albatross around their necks - boo hoo. -eom

[PittPoliSci]

22. are they objecting to the part where he said...

we don't have the money to pay for this war? cause if they are, that's just stupid.

[The Stranger]

25. DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING APOLOGIZE.

[eShirl]

26. gee he really struck a nerve

[Pachamama]

27. Right on Rep. Pete Stark - Shame shame shame on the GOP and any Censure of Stark...

:patriot:

[Doc Martin]

28. Trampled on the sacrifice of our troops? Deaths to protect our oil supplies

Greenspan said it is all about, and should be all about, oil. We cannot risk anyone cutting off our supply.

Are parents willing to have their children sacrifice their lives so we'll have oil?

[mark414]

29. contact Pete Stark and tell him to keep speaking the truth and to NOT apologize!

http://www.house.gov/stark/contact/index.htm

[PassingFair]

36. My pleasure.

I love him.

[fooj]

30. Boo fucking hoo!

[Cirque du So-What]

33. Great photo of Adam Putnam N/T

[rodeodance]

40. he is one of the Repugs whinners---constant whine!

[FiveGoodMen]

31. I object to republicans' continued use of oxygen

[John Kerry VonErich]

34. He'll be censured

and I wouldn't doubt that he will be up for expulssion. Just my prediction.

[flaminbats]

35. and they call us the whiners?

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) rose to protest the remark and asked that Stark's words be taken down, a formal procedure to punish a member of Congress for breaching the House's standards of decorum.

the skin of these rats is so thin that politics means nothing to them. politics isn't just about making criticism, its about listening to and solving these problems. these freepers regularly rip liberals for being "socialists, unpatriotic, and for being baby killers"..ie pro-choice.



but we hurt their wittle feelings when we point out that being "pro-life" isn't the same as imprisoning women who have abortions or blocking the potential for life saving cures made possible with stem-cell research. :cry: HOW DARE WE SUGGEST THAT TAXPAYERS SHOULD TAKE CARE OF UNINSURED CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHRONIC MEDICAL PROBLEMS!!!

never mind that Republicans call one of our best leaders, Senator OSAMA. never mind that Republicans didn't support our troops by paying more in taxes, or attacked President Clinton for our involvement in Bosnia. its ok to claim that Clinton doesn't have an exit strategy and be proved wrong, but Republicans say its only hypocrisy to suggest that Bush needs an exit strategy. never mind that Bush ran on being a compassionate conservative, saying that Bill Clinton embodied both of these by balancing the budget and helping the uninsured is something these skinless animals can never except!

[CBHagman]

37. You just watch. They'll make this the story, not the veto.

We've seen the performance before from the right wing talks show hosts and their ilk, and the codependent media: scream hysterically for days about a comment -- not an action, a comment - and sanctimoniously maintain that such-and-such a Democrat doesn't support the troops, etc., raising such a stink that an apology is in the offing.

Don't do it, Pete. Tell 'em to insert their veto pens in the appropriate orifice.

[rodeodance]

39. for the president's amusement."------dang--except for last 4 words I would love

what he said.

[olddad56]

42. This congress shoud censure him. He told the truth. Not allowed.

[IndianaGreen]

43. Bush and his fellow GOP chicken hawks get orgasms over the graves of our noble Fallen

They all hate veterans because they are always cutting veteran benefits. They all love the dead soldiers for they make for great backdrops for their cynical patriotic speeches.

Peter Stark is right!

Republicans never apologize for anything. Democrats should learn to never apologize to Republican for anything.

The Republican Party is not a political party but a crypto-nazi criminal enterprise. Republicans should all be arrested and subjected to rendition prior to disappearing in the gulag that Bush created. They all deserve the same fate they created for others.

[IndianaGreen]

44. Bush and his fellow GOP chicken hawks get orgasms over the graves of our noble Fallen

They all hate veterans because they are always cutting veteran benefits. They all love the dead soldiers for they make for great backdrops for their cynical patriotic speeches.

Peter Stark is right!

Republicans never apologize for anything. Democrats should learn to never apologize to Republican for anything.

The Republican Party is not a political party but a crypto-nazi criminal enterprise. Republicans should all be arrested and subjected to rendition prior to disappearing in the gulag that Bush created. They all deserve the same fate they created for others.

[BanzaiBonnie]

45. HE has nothing to apologize for

I want to see the president bow his head before the American people for what he has done.


Although I don't hold much hope for that, I am sure that when he leaves this world he will be taken to task for the horror he has visited on the people of this planet.

[NoodleyAppendage]

46. Call Stark's Office to VOICE YOUR SUPPORT. Phone number here.

Stark's office is likely being innundated by the Repuke fascist call machine, so we need to counter it to prevent his backing down. For this once, can we PLEASE stand behind someone who DARES to tell the truth and stands up to the Chimpenfurher.

(202) 225 - 5065

CALL NOW!

J