Dems out to avenge DeLay’s comment on Kennedy’s girth

[Rose Siding]

september 3, 2003

Democrats are still fuming about a remark last month by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), suggesting that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is flabby on national defense. “That made a lot of people very mad,” said one Democratic insider. And with Congress back in town, it’s get-even time.

Speaking to a College Republicans meeting after his return from Israel, DeLay said, “To gauge how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier.”
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Now party operatives are circulating an article that ran four years ago in the Houston Press, describing an impromptu news conference DeLay held at the 1988 GOP convention. According to the story, DeLay, a two-term congressman at the time, explained that he and vice presidential nominee and then-Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.), who during the Vietnam War joined the National Guard, were the unfortunate victims of supply and demand.

“So many minority youths had volunteered … there was literally no room” for the two of them to fight in the war, DeLay said.

http://www.thehill.com/open_secrets/090303.aspx

Good to see this taking another bite out of his apple :bounce:

[JohnKleeb]

1. Hey Tom, Ted served and your love George didnt

[Cha]

3. Good one, John!

Cheers! :hi:

[JohnKleeb]

6. thanks I try :)

Teddy and all of his brothers served their country good in war and except Joe because he was never a politican were great politicans with unique yet simliar messages. Only one of the Bush brothers served and he went AWOL, and besides they are horrible politicans.

[izzie]

2. DeLay is a real geek.

It shames me Americans would vote this man in.

[Cha]

4. tomdelay is a Very Cruel, Dangerous, geek!

[Catherine Vincent]

5. I'm ashamed that asshole is from Texas.

n/t

[Cha]

7. But he was hatched in Connecticut!

[JohnKleeb]

8. lol hatched

:)

[chaumont58]

9. Wow, wait until Country Music hears what you said!

You'll be sentenced to attend all Dixie Chicks' concerts.

[bleedingheart]

10. hey...that's offensive to geeks like me

;-)

[Bozita]

11. "Bug-Bomb Tom" DeLay is no geek.

He's an asshole.

I feel better already.

[John_H]

12. Here are more delay quotes

I found and set to his favorite song.

http://commissarjohn.com/lottadelay.html

[Mz Pip]

13. Tom DeLay's brain

is the size of a walnut. And he only uses about 1% of that. I'd rather have Kennedy's girth than DeLay's brain. Kenned's girth can be fixed. No amount of exercise can fix DeLay's brain.

MzPip
:dem:

[cliss]

14. heh

mzpip, funny! You're so right.

[dfong63]

15. ted kennedy has more class than that

Speaking to a College Republicans meeting after his return from Israel, DeLay said, “To gauge how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier.”

clue, bug boy: Chimpy didn't land the jet, he was just a passenger. the whole thing was just a super-expensive photo-op.

Ted Kennedy wouldn't waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a meaningless PR stunt. what's even more important, Ted Kennedy wouldn't screw the working class by pushing huge tax cuts for the rich, while simultaneously making millions of people ineligible for overtime pay.

[tokenlib]

16. DeLay's constituants must be proud...

He must have one of the most warped, right-wing extremist, nut case districts in the country. Must be from all that toxic waste as one of the most polluted districts in the country.

What an asshole!