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10.16.2007

 

Welch weighs in

Congressman Peter Welch isn't known as much of an orator, but he was about as fiery as he can get -- publicly at least -- when he launched into an attack over the State Department's effort to re-classify certain U.S. assessments that reveal ongoing corruption in the Iraq "rebuilding" effort.by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.

On Tuesday, he took to the House floor to refute a Republican member's defense of the Bush administration stance on the issue. Check it out by clicking HERE. Some of the stories Welch related from testimony he'd heard about the killings of people connected with the corruption probe are pretty grisly, so you might want to have the little ones in another room when you watch this.

In the end, what the House is fighting over is a a non-binding resolution chastizing the administration for what it's trying to do. The GOP thinks it's grandstanding by the Dems. So give it a look, and tell us what you think is going on.

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
As usual, Vermont's three stooges will do whatever it takes to defeat our mission against terrorism. Has ANYONE EVER heard any one of these three morons criticize a terrorist for ANYTHING? It's always our troops, our President, ad nauseum. Guess they can hardly wait until Hillary is President so we can go back to the 90's policy of letting the scum kill our troops, bomb our trade center, drag our troops through the streets in Africa, bomb our ships like the US Cole, and just sit around like these leftists that believe if only we "talk" to the terrorists all will be OK!
 
Well said....
 
Actually, the Dems want to do something about terrorism. Bush doesn't. Bush wants more trade with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan ... which are the primary countries which sponsor terror.

It's Bush who won't stop terrorism.
 
The level of discourse is amazing - and you want people to support your ideas.
 
Only a doody head would say something like that.
 
Ponderous....this dialogue could only exist in VT.
 
No, I'm pretty sure that there are idiots in every state.
 
Well, I know there is one missing from Texas.
 
zing!
 
D'ya mean when Cindy Sheehan left Texas and went back to California?
 
where is Doug Hoffer?
 
The three stooges - Vermont's "contribution" to a congress with 11% approval rating!
 
Thank you Bubba


Your pals
Larry, Curly and Moe
 
Having characterized Vermont's congressional delegation as "three stooges", perhaps Bubba will tell us what representatives and senators he (or she) thinks are worthy of respect.

C'mon Bubba, step up. Or can you only complain?
 
A handful of conservative, common sense democrats (you won't find ANY in New England) that place the welfare of the country over their party leaders (several in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina) and the majority of Republican Senators and Congressmen in the South and mid-West. Senators Brownback, Corker, Cornyn, Imhoff, Chambliss, Isakson come to mind as good Senators plus Wamp, Deal, and too many other Republicans too numerous to mention in the House. The worst include Leahy, Sanders, Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Schumer, Pelosi, Frank, Stark, Rangel, Welch, the entire Mass. delegation, too many to mention.
 
Matt Dunne for Governor
 
You can take your southern fried chicken religious wacko ultra-conservative nutjob senators and keep them down there on the plantation.
 
"You can take your southern fried chicken religious wacko ultra-conservative nutjob senators and keep them down there on the plantation."

Clearly no bias, bitterness or bigotry here. Thanks for your insights... it sounds like the VT left has as many wacko nut jobs as apparently the South does.
 
Actually there is no bias, bitterness or bigotry on my behalf.

Go live in the south and you'll know that although the comment seems harsh, it also hits the nail right on the head.
 
"Go live in the south and you'll know that although the comment seems harsh, it also hits the nail right on the head."

Like I said not bias, bitterness or bigotry here...

FYI..I lived in the South for 20 years before coming to VT. You make them sound like choirboys...

I am learning to love the "free think" folks up here. Do you work for Welcome Wagon?
 
If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.
 
"Go live in the south and you'll know that although the comment seems harsh, it also hits the nail right on the head."

No, that's not bigotry at all . . .
 
You're right. Its not bigotry.
 
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