Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments

[The Straight Story]

Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were "inappropriate" comments about Iraq during a congressional debate.

During a debate on children's health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."

Condemnations rolled in from Republican politicians, right-leaning bloggers had a field day, and a White House spokesman declined to "dignify those remarks" with a response.

Pelosi issued a statement Friday evening rapping Stark, who is in his 18th term representing the liberal East Bay. He's California's longest-serving House members.

"While members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand—providing health care for America's children," Pelosi said.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SCISEO0&show_article=1

[mudesi]

1. What the HELL do the Republicans have on her? (nm)

[hobbit709]

2. Pelosi can do something obscene to herself

When she stands up to the repukes I might regain a little respect for her but not until then.

[PollThis]

30. I fart, in her general direction. nt

[judaspriestess]

3. Those Botox injections are seeping into her brain

she's killing precious cells in her brain everyday

[Disturbed]

6. Did she repeat her comment that "George is a lovely man"?

Pelosi & Reid need to resign now!

[JeffR]

4. I've been holding out on this for a long time, but now I have to say

Nancy Pelosi can go take a jump. She's wrong, Stark is right, and her comments make someone look stupid - and it's not Stark.

[anitar1]

34. Thanks JeffR, exactly. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

5. BOOOOOOOOO!

Jeebus, no wonder the Dems are seen as spineless. The ARE.

:grr:

[Gabi Hayes]

11. this is my wallpaper.

and does she remember this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2091076

why didn't she same somthing about it today, or when it happened. did ANY dem speak out when this happened?

[SeattleGirl]

19. Randi Rhodes was playing the clip of Bush laughing about WMDs

over and over again today, and every time I heard him, and every time I heard people LAUGHING ABOUT IT, I wanted to scream! What the FUCK is so funny about it?

This morning, Thom Hartmann, whom normally I admire, made the excuse that it was Bush's joke writer, not Bush, who came up with that schtick. That may be so, but BUSH IS THE ONE WHO WENT THROUGH WITH IT. He is ultimately responsible.

Fucking spineless bastards. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[me b zola]

7. I rebuke Nancy Pelosi

I stand with truth tellers like Congressman Stark.

[Peregrine Took]

18. I double rebuke her! Ugh - she and her "little girl lost" persona are pathetic.

[progpen]

8. Pelosi is more of a war time traitor than AWOL himself.

[civildisoBDence]

9. What the hell is wrong with DU?

Do you think it's okay for a Democrat on the floor of the House to act like Ann Coulter? Do you think 2 wrongs, or 22 or 222, make a right?

Pelosi was right to rebuke Stark. What he said was preposterous. Even DUHbya isn't "amused" by the deaths of our soldiers.

Newsprism

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. If Stark had, say, disparaged Jews...

then you'd have something resembling a comparison to Anne Coulter.

"Even DUHbya isn't "amused" by the deaths of our soldiers."

Why wouldn't he be? He's the one who kills them and laughs about it.

[LSK]

16. STAY THE COURSE, STAY THE COURSE, STAY THE COURSE

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

WHAT STARK SAID WAS 100% TRUE, COULTER LIES HER ASS OFF.

[kestrel91316]

23. Uh, wrong. I am quite sure Bush is amused by his grip on this country

and how he gets to move the little tokens around on the board at his whim. You don't understand sociopaths and sadists.

[stillcool]

26. Ann Coulter?

who is she, and why should I give a shit what she says? It is nice that one elected official who represents some of the families of those 3832 individuals who are now dead, would start raising a ruckus over this bullshit.

[Rageneau]

28. Stark was 100% right. "Amusement" is precisely the right word!

Bush really and truly enjoys being a 'wartime' president. It makes him smirk and swagger even more to reflect upon how important he is as Commander in Chief.

Bush really IS amused as people die. His "No WMDs here" skit showed a man who was having a good time while his soldiers die needlessly.

Bush really, really, really, really IS "amused" by the carnage in Iraq.

But "we" are not amused.

[EFerrari]

38. There is nothing wrong with DU.

Pete Stark is right and Pelosi is wrong.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Pff, figures.

[marmar]

12. I rebuke myself for saying she was going to be a great Speaker of the House....

Pretty soon, she's not going to be able to go home to San Francisco.

[anitar1]

35. Amen, Marmar. n/t

[OzarkDem]

14. Why doesn't she just switch parties and get it over with

She appears to dislike the Democratic Party immensely and disagrees with everything it stands for. Why is she bothering to remain a Democrat.

Switch, Nancy, so we can get a real leader.

[LSK]

15. CINDY SHEEHAN N/T

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[bullwinkle428]

17. More bullshit from the "Thank you sir, may I have another?" wing of

the party we actually thought represented our interests!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!

[stimbox]

20. She needs to step down. Let Stark take over as Speaker.

http://www.markfiore.com/spineocrat

[Canuckistanian]

21. Mr. Fish says it best

[stimbox]

25. oh my gawd!!!!!!

That RULES!

[Canuckistanian]

32. Well, I ROFL'ed when I saw it

It's such a good visual of the TOTAL CAPITULATION of the post-2006 Dem leadership.

[kestrel91316]

22. kestrel just rebuked Nancy in a "very strongly worded letter".

Unfortunately, kestrel also forgot to put it on her clipboard to paste here, lol. But Nancy will blush at the "strongly worded" part.

No profanity in it, BTW. Just a firm opinion.

[scorpiogirl]

29. I did too!

I am sick today but got so pissed off that I just had to. She is predictable and ridiculous!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. Pelosi has no fighting spirit. Fuck her.

[TSIAS]

27. Where are her defenders?

I'm sure the DLC would love to have a "Sister Souljah" moment at Stark's expense?

[republicansarewhores]

31. I Rebuke Nancy Pelosi

And the horse she rode in on.

You don't bring a knife to a gunfight Nancy. This seems something the majority of the Dems are forgetting these days.

They've become a huge part of the problem.

I hope that there is enough new Democratic blood running against them next primary election so we can really clean house.

Their enabling has become completely unacceptable.

RAW

[Jade Fox]

33. Damn her. I've finally had it with her......

I'm beginning to believe Pelosi is terminally middle-class, as in she lives in a world where the worst thing you can do is be "not nice", and where nothing really bad ever happens that can't be worked out by civil discourse between well-meaning people, etc. etc.....

We need a street fighter. Pelosi may be well-meaning, but she doesn't know how to kick ass, and probably thinks it's inexcusably rude to do so.

[EFerrari]

37. That's probably a very accurate assessment. n/t

[shadowknows69]

36. Aw fuck you nancy

really just fuck the fuck off. Stark speaks for me.

[bdamomma]

39. my feelings exactly, and I called his office to say NO APOLOGY

is needed.