Tom DeLay blasts "party of appeasement"

[Wayne Grabert]

In this short op-ed (http://slate.msn.com/id/2079324/), House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (a Republican) lays out the case of war versus appeasement. To fully understand DeLay's point, you really need to read the whole thing, but it isn't long. (Not much longer than this post.)

On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called Democratic opponents of war in Iraq "reckless." DeLay assailed last weekend's "outrageous" speech by former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt., to the Democratic National Committee. The applause that greeted Dean's speech "proves who the Democrat Party is," DeLay told reporters. "They are fast becoming the appeasement party."

To get a full taste of the point made by the article, click on and read at least part of the article linked towards the end of the first with the hypertext "four years ago." (And read the last paragraph of that second article.)

[headscratcher4]

Here is an editorial from today's Washington Post...a noted "leftist" newspaper (the Repblicans here in DC read the Washington Times 'cause the Post is the voice of the Democrats and Liberalism, so they believe), anyway, it is pro-war (oddly, as most of the leading Democrats), so, methinks, Delay is raising money from the rightwing with these editiorials....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8531-2003Feb26.html

[Wayne Grabert]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
Here is an editorial from today's Washington Post...a noted "leftist" newspaper (the Repblicans here in DC read the Washington Times 'cause the Post is the voice of the Democrats and Liberalism, so they believe),[/url] From what I've read about the Wahington Post, once Katherine Graham quit managing the paper several years ago, it took a hard right, editorially. Maybe it is still (barely) to the left of the Moon-owned Times, and that is just enough to add to the delusional whining of crybaby conservatives about the "Liberal Media."

On another thread on this board, I stated my opposition to much of Clinton's foreign policy. I thought he didn't have a foreign policy that was grounded in democratic (small "d") principles and that he had the misguided notion that the US was supposed to be the world's policeman. I opposed his intervention in Haiti and the bombing campaign in Kosovo--though not the participation in the peacekeeping forces. I wondered how many Republicans would favor the pending war with Iraq if it were Clinton rather than Bush who were pushing for it. On the latter points, a Bush supporter stated that Congressional Republicans put partisanship aside and "almost unanimously" backed Clinton's policies in Kosovo! I suppose he learned from his political heroes how to blatantly lie and revise history! As that second article points out, a solid majority of Republicans voted against Clinton's bombing campaign, and I recall that Congressional Republicans were very unsupportive of even having our troops participate in the international peacekeeping forces!

That second article (the one linked with "four years ago") could have added to its last paragraph, "and partisan voters, even some who call themselves skeptics, will be easily manipulated by the lies and unsubstantiated claims of their politicians."

[rikzilla]

From what I've read about the Wahington Post, once Katherine Graham quit managing the paper several years ago, it took a hard right, editorially.

Hey Wayne...maybe we should dig up old Katie eh?? :rolleyes:
she at least has a good reason for shirking her liberal responsibilities. ;)

-z

[NightG1]

Originally posted by Wayne Grabert
In this short op-ed (http://slate.msn.com/id/2079324/), House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (a Republican

One of my all-time favorite Tom Delay (http://www.progressive.org/ivins899.htm) hit pieces. Mind you, it was written by that flaming communist Molly Ivins for that flaming communist rag The Progressive but what the heck.

[Wayne Grabert]

Originally posted by NightG1


One of my all-time favorite Tom Delay (http://www.progressive.org/ivins899.htm) hit pieces. Mind you, it was written by that flaming communist Molly Ivins for that flaming communist rag The Progressive but what the heck.
It is indeed unfortunate that you are polluting your mind with godless communist literature, but sometimes Satan manages to be funny.
Ah, how reminiscent it was of happy days at the Texas Legislature to hear our man Tom DeLay's razor-like mind at work. "Our school systems teach the children they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud," he said, explaining to us why fifteen people died at Littleton, Colorado.

Obviously, being taught evolutionary theory is enough to drive anyone berserk: The mere thought of it makes you want to rush out and shoot a dozen or so teenagers, doesn't it? In the interest of fairness, I must point out that DeLay himself is strong evidence for the theory that man is descended from monkeys. And damn recently, too.

:D