McDuhmott's Comments Were Way Off-base

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 22 December 2003 | Robert L. Jamieson, Jr.

[Billthedrill]

One of Seattle's more liberal commentators has finally had enough.

[battlegearboat]

The Left's McCarthy.

[Billthedrill]

One head-shaking BTT. I'm thinking I woke up in an alternate universe here...

[John Jorsett]

Let's spell his name correctly: McDumbutt. Or it is McNumnuts?

[Old Sarge]

Lacking proof, McDermott's comments are irresponsible verbal diarrhea. And they are an unadulterated embarrassment to any card-carrying Democrat.

They are neither. They are the DNC talking points of the week, the latest "action item". I'm just surprised it took them a week to get them out.

Besides, these statements accomplish their purpose. The Sheep have heard them. And this is what they will believe, on Election Day.

[keithtoo]

McDermott was a psychiatrist?????!!!!!!!!

Dear lord, what did he do to his patients?

Keep this loon away from the medicine closet. Or, on second thought, drugs might improve things for him.

[Cpu]

>>>Let's spell his name correctly: McDumbutt. Or it is >>>McNumnuts?

McDimwitt??

[Cpu]

>>>McDermott was a psychiatrist?????!!!!!!!!
>>>Dear lord, what did he do to his patients?

He was in the US Army "debriefing" returning GI's during Vietnam. (No, I'm not making this up.)

cpu

[The_Victor]

...irresponsible verbal diarrhea.

Describes McDermott to a tee.

[mlbford2]

The guys over on DU think he is the second coming of Christ.

[Cicero]

One of Seattle's more liberal commentators has finally had enough.

Actually, the way I read it, this "card carrying Democrat" is made at McDermott, who became his hero by visiting Baghdad and hobnobbing with Saddam, because he thinks he did something politically stupid. Not wrong, not evil, not treasonous, but destructive to the leftist cause.

[observer5]

"Dear lord, what did he do to his patients?"

He is one!

[Alas Babylon!]

Jamieson needs to drop the other shoe. McDermott should resign. This editorial may be like Lieberman's criticism of Clinton in the well of the Senate. Designed to get the heat off his man by pre-emptive strike. If Jamieson is serious, he should ask this loon to step down.

[Cicero]

Oops. In case it isn't evident, made = mad.

[theDentist]

It's funny, when they were having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something."

When 'they' were having all what trouble?

[bigfootbob]

I looked at this headline at the PeU this morning and said NO WAY. Editors are trying to be funny so I passed reading it until now. Jamieson must'a tripped and hit his head before writing this.

[Billthedrill]

Resign? McDermott will be re-elected in a landslide. His district is Bizarro-world.

[Gritty]

If politics were medicine, they both would deserve to be sued for malpractice.

I would be happy if they were just kept out of office where they make laws for the rest of us.

[Publius]

First Joel Connelly fires warning shots across McDermott's bow. Now Jamieson opens up with the cannons. If he doesn't take the hint, the big 9-inch guns open up, and the P-I will suggest that McDermott take a well-deserved retirement from Congress.

They're concerned that McDermott is damaging The Cause by shooting from the lip.

[Steve_Seattle]

It's encouraging to see Jamiesen take on McDermott, but Jamieson has a long way to go. He repeats the suspician that the war was really about oil; he falsely describes Bush's policy as a policy of "going it alone" (despite our numerous allies, apparently only France and Germany's participation would give the war legitimacy); he suggests that having multiple justifications for the war weakens the case rather than strengthens it (and in the process falsely accuses Bush of claiming Saddam had a role in 9/11); and he makes the strange comment that Democrats should have a "counterpoint" to Bush having "scared other countries such as Libya into giving up their weapons." He thinks we'd be better off if Libya kept its WMD program alive? Not sure what his point is there . . .