Republican retracts ‘socialist' comment but not sorry

[Keith Bee]

Source: CNN.com

(CNN) – Rep. Mo Brooks, the Alabama Republican who withdrew his statement on the House floor Friday that referred to his fellow congressmen as "socialists," says he's not sorry for the remark and thinks his colleagues are "thin skinned."

"I was making a point only about an economic system," Brooks, a first-term congressman, told his hometown paper, the Birmingham News.

The comments came during Brook's House floor speech while he was voicing opposition to a 2012 budget plan being proposed by several Democrats who make up the progressive caucus.

"Folks, we are here today forcing this issue because America is at risk. We are at risk of insolvency and bankruptcy because the socialist members of this body choose to spend money that we do not have," he said during the speech.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/18/republican-retracts-%E2%80%98socialist-comment%E2%80%99-but-not-sorry/

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Mel Brooks would make a better Congressman than this clown.

[CBGLuthier]

1. and as the fascists on the other side looked on

[RedCloud]

6. fascist killer pigs after the assault on our health care!

[paparush]

2. US 25th out of 34 OECD members in social spending

DU Thread from yesterday
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x911021

[bongbong]

3. Ha ha!

Is he going to call his fellow repigs, teabaggers, & fascists "thin skinned" when somebody calls them what they really are - pigs, teabaggers, & fascists?

[gratuitous]

7. The GOP was pretty thin-skinned last week

When the President correctly identified the Ryan plan as being a bunch of codswallop. The poor dears had to break out their finest clutching pearls and retire to their fainting couches to get over that one.

[patrice]

4. All money is debt. The fight is over how much, on whose backs, & FOR WHAT. Brooks would prefer

that the rich tell the rest of us what our lives are and the rest of us want to determine for ourselves how the aggregate of our tax dollars are spent on what we need for ourselves.

It's very simply a question of economic royalty vs. economic autonomy for this country.

[freshwest]

17. Agreed.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. Red baiting is back in vogue

despite that there aren't even the slightest hints of socialist economic tendencies in the Democratic party.

Meh, since when do the actual definitions of anything matter in popular politics?

[AllTooEasy]

8. Mo forgot to add #notmeanttobefactual

[LaPera]

9. Brooks, like all republicans are elitist, selfish greedy corporate fascist

I'd much rather be a fair caring democratic socialist!

Look up the word fascism and tell me it's not accurate in describing the agenda & ideology of the republican party.

[yellowcanine]

10. DU needs a conservative weenie of the week award. Brooks wins it .

Withdrawing a statement while refusing to apologize and complaining about "thin-skinned" colleagues is the move of a weenie.

[mike_c]

11. while I more-or-less agree with him re: gotcha politics...

...the idiot from Alabama wouldn't know a socialist if it bit him on the ass.

[jberryhill]

12. Clearly, a government subsidized Congressional ass-biting program would solve that riddle

I'd check a box on my taxes just to chip in a few bucks to that one.

[classysassy]

13. Another son of Dixie

The rednecks keep sending their nit wits to Washington.

[NeoConsSuck]

14. If we called one of them a Facist

there would be an uproar in Washington, CNN and FoxNews would be blasting it on their TV channels and websites, and an apology would be demanded by congress.

When they come out with something like this, I don't even hear about it unless I visit DU and read about it on some blog.

[Nossida]

15. no he is SORRY

A Sorry excuse, from a Sorry Welfare State.
Only his Sorry excuse of constituents even
bother to listen to his Sorryness.

Riff Raff

[eppur_se_muova]

16. The saddest thing about this whole business is that "socialist" is regarded as an INSULT.

Really, it just means placing the interests of the many above the interests of the few.