What is the NY Times implying here?

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That J.C. Watts would have been in his rights to slug an old man because his wittle fweelings were hurt? I'm going to say this once and never again, I have personally confronted these conservative little girls on more than one occasion, they always, ALWAYS, back down like the little fetal ball sissies that they are especially the big, doughy ones.

Enjoy. Link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/washington/23cnd-stark.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1193169824-cCFeQ%20edEfBD4Pj1tfNcLQ&pagewanted=print


Democrat Escapes Censure Over Remarks About Bush and War
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California, escaped censure today for incendiary remarks he made last Thursday about President Bush and the war in Iraq.

By 196 to 173, the House voted to table a resolution to censure Mr. Stark, who is chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, for what he said as the House sustained President Bush’s veto of a bill to expand a children’s health insurance program.

“You don’t have money to fund the war or children,” Mr. Stark told Republicans last week. “But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people, if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”

Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas, called Mr. Stark’s remark “despicable and beneath contempt.” Other Republicans expressed similar shock.

But Mr. Stark’s comment, for which he has apologized, was hardly out of character. The Almanac of American Politics notes that in March 2003, the Bay Area lawmaker called the bombing of Iraq “an act of extreme terrorism” and that he “has had testy personal dealings” in his 17 terms in Congress.

Indeed. The political almanac recalls that, at a committee hearing in May 2001, Mr. Stark declared — incorrectly — that all the children of then-Representative J. C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican, had been born out of wedlock. When Mr. Watts confronted him face to face, Mr. Stark further angered him with a flippant remark, a gesture that might have been a tad reckless, given that Mr. Watts was a football star at the University of Oklahoma and is a few decades younger than Mr. Stark.

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1. the bombing of Iraq “an act of extreme terrorism”

well he was right there too

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2. "Other Republicans expressed similar shock."

I need Jon Stewart to respond to this. Or Keith Olbermann. No, no, I think Jon is best for this one.