Senator-Elect Webb wanted to slug Bush

[bigdarryl]

DAMN!!! http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/112906.html

[Burma Jones]

1. That just makes him normal.....n/t

[Clark2008]

2. So does 72 percent of the country and 95 percent of the rest of the

free (and not-so-free) world.

:7

[KingFlorez]

3. Excuse my language, but Bush is bastard

He has some nerve trying to get smart with somebody about his wreck of war, especially when it comes to someone's child.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

5. I am so glad Webb is my senator.

What a snarky thing for * to say; then again, I'm not surprised.

[napingo]

4. Webb isn't exactly showing signs he has the temperment to be POTUS nt

nt

[Lautremont]

6. DIDN'T slug him.

That shows as much restraint as anyone might need to be president, don't you think?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. Wasn't Clinton known to have a bit of a temper? Hello, the man

is human.

[KingFlorez]

9. He didn't do anything

I think most people with a child at war would feel the same way if somebody made a smart comment like that to him. He kept his cool though, which was good.

[beaconess]

15. Has Webb indicated that he wants to be POTUS?

[madfloridian]

19. LOL

:rofl:

[Vickers]

20. Assphincter says what?

:shrug:

[No Exit]

22. Yeah... we wouldn't want anyone who SPEAKS HIS MIND or HAS A SON IN IRAQ

or anything "incorrect" like that!

Naw--we've got to LEARN FROM THE REPUBLICANS how to be a winner! Have candidates who put OTHER PEOPLE'S kids on the line (Cheney, neocons, etc.), and NEVER tell what they really think (McCain)!

Heh.

[hobbit709]

8. The line starts on the left

you have to wait your turn.

[Dr.Phool]

12. The line would look like that scene in "Airplane"

With all the passengers lined up to slap that hysterical woman.

[Thrill]

10. How funny would it of been if he would

have knocked his ass out? ouch

[cmd]

11. Junior is such a low life

He isn't worth the energy it would take to slug him. Webb needed to give him a good kick with those combat boots for that smart aleck remark.

[rurallib]

13. One line I wouldn't mind standing in.

[CTLawGuy]

14. wow he is SO CONSERVATIVE

:eyes:

2006 was surely a victory for conservative Democrats :eyes:

[Arkana]

16. Webb will have to wait his turn.

e:f;b

[Joe Bacon]

17. Tim Johnson and Jim Webb are the only senators with kids in Iraq

I pray earnestly that both of their sons come home OK.

[No Exit]

23. It is said Bush spoke disrespectfully to the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.

It was reported in Stars & Stripes, I think. Bush, as protocol demanded, met with the mother of the fallen soldier for a few minutes. She tearfully told "the president" what a wonderful person her son had been, and she concluded her little speech by saying, "And I just know he would've had a wonderful life." Bush responded by saying to her, "How do you know he would've had a wonderful life?"

This woman was not addressing Bush angrily, as the occasional parent of a fallen soldier has done. She was clearly simply grieving and feeling the pain of her loss. And THAT was how she was treated by this one-man wrecking crew????!?

And now we hear of his essentially acting the same way towards the father of a soldier in Iraq.

Republicans: the ANTI-Veteran Party.

The Republican Party must be destroyed and must never again rise on the American political scene.

[madfloridian]

18. Here we go again....the "be careful" Dems are after him.

I say Good for Webb. Keep saying what you think. This is the same way this over cautious, very careful, play nice bunch has done all the time...they still do it to Dean.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801582.html


"There are going to be times when I've got some strong ideas, but I'm not looking to simply be a renegade," he said. "I think people in the Democratic Party leadership have already begun to understand that I know how to work inside a structure."

His party's leaders hope that he means it.

Top Democratic senators, including incoming Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), had invested their money and prestige in Webb before he won the party primary in June. His victory was also theirs, but now they have to make sure he's not a liability.

"He's not a typical politician. He really has deep convictions," said Schumer, who headed the Senate Democrats' campaign arm. "We saw this in the campaign. We would have disagreements. But when you made a persuasive argument, he would say, 'You're right.' I am truly not worried about it. He understands the need to be part of a team."

One senior Democratic staff member on Capitol Hill, who spoke on condition that he not be identified so he could speak freely about the new senator, said that Webb's lack of political polish was part of his charm as a candidate but could be a problem as a senator.

"I think he's going to be a total pain. He is going to do things his own way. That's a good thing and a bad thing," the staff member said. But he said that Webb's personality may be just what the Senate needs. "You need a little of everything. Some element of that personality is helpful."

Same old media, same old unnamed sources.

[snowbear]

21. AWESOME !!!!!!!

Damn, isn't it your dream to slug the SOB too Big Darryl?

[grizmaster]

24. who wouldn't want to punch the criminal chimp?