Congressional pissing match

[No2W2004]

Democrats hurled sharp barbs at the White House, with Rep. Robert Matsui of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, declaring that President Bush is "either clueless or incompetent" when it comes to the war.

Rep. Tom Reynolds of New York, Matsui's Republican counterpart, said that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who on Thursday said Bush was an incompetent president, "should just go back to her pastel-colored condo in San Francisco and keep her views to herself" rather than blame Bush for the war.

Pelosi stuck to her assertion, made at a Washington news conference Thursday, that the president's leadership shows "an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience" in risking the deaths of U.S. troops and failing to anticipate the financial costs of the war.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., fired back at Pelosi. "Her comments questioning the president's competence cross the line." He said that if Pelosi had her way, Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

Matsui, who rarely engages in political hyperbole, joined forces with Pelosi in blasting the president's conduct of the war. He said the president "should come to grips about where we are in this war instead of fantasizing that we'll win this war." The Sacramento congressman called DeLay "a thug and all here know it."

http://www.adn.com/24hour/iraq/story/1385958p-8637992c.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. And this is what proxies look like

when doign teh shooting for the Presidential Candidate

Good for them... and us

[Vickers]

2. Yea! I hope it emboldens more to speak their minds

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Lucky Luciano]

3. I'm glad this republican is being an adult about the whole thing:

The committee's chairman, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., called on House members to agree that "the minority leader, Ms. Pelosi, and the president of the United States, George Bush, are both acting in good faith in trying to win this war against terrorism."


The partisanship accomplishes nothing - get down to the fucking issues I say! The issue is b*sh tried to do something (it should have been obvious not to go to Iraq in the first place, but here we are) and it is not working. We need to be out of Iraq completely in 2 or 3 years - Tops!

[roguevalley]

4. what else can the nazis say? they have a dead duck around their neck

and they don't have the integrity to say they were wrong. they don't have character, integrity or balls.

RV, still hung over about the state repig convention being in my town. Roy Moore is here too.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. That would be a first for Duncan Hunter...

...acting like an adult, that is.

[Renew Deal]

5. Sounds like a slap fight.

Delay is a thug. Hastert is a draft dodging chickenhawk and Bush is barely coherent.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. It's about time. The traditional cordiality of the House has degenerated

to the point where Bill Frist is making personal appearance in Tom Dascle's district in order to sponsor his opponent for his seat, perhaps his successor if Frist and the RNC get their way. There used to be an unwritten law that the parties could disagree and argue but there were lines one didn't cross. And that included not interfering with re-election of the other side.

If the Repukes are howling with indignation, it's solely because their illusions of Dems being silent and passive have been shattered with reality.