'Hanoi Jane' McDermott: Bush Wants to Be Emperor

NewsMax ^ | 10/7/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Rep. Jim "Hanoi Jane" McDermott, D-Wash., just keeps digging a bigger hole for himself as he continues to attack President Bush on Iraq. "This president is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America," he told supporters at a Democrat-sponsored speech Sunday in P.C.-crazed Seattle.

"And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not," said McDermott, whose nicknames also include "Baghdad Jim."

America 'Terrorized by the Government'

And there was this choice remark: "One of the dilemmas we've had since 9/11 is that this country has been continuously terrorized by the government," McDermott said. "Every week they announce a new threat. 'Today is a code orange.' 'Today is a code red.'"

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called the Seattle leftist's comments about a coup "the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard an American politician say."

The resolution Congress will vote on next week was negotiated between the White House and congressional leaders of both parties, the Times pointed out.

"If President Bush is engaged in a coup then his co-conspirators are Richard Gephardt and Joseph Lieberman," Vance noted.

The anti-choice, pro-censorship left dominated the meeting, according to the Times. "Inside the crowd was heavily in favor of McDermott's view. When opponents took a microphone to talk, they were shouted at and told to get to their question. Supporters, though, were able to talk uninterrupted and give anti-war speeches."

Outside, only four or five protesters carried signs denouncing Baghdad Jim's recent junket to Iraq and his comments about Bush and dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Saddam Good — Bush Bad. This is Baghdad Jim's Mind On Drugs," said a sign carried by Brandon Swalley of Lakewood.

"I think he should be thrown out," she said.

One protester shouted after the congressman: "Our president is not a liar. If you want to say it, say it here but don't go to foreign lands to say it."

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[SpinyNorman]

"One of the dilemmas we've had since 9/11 is that this country has been continuously terrorized by the government," McDermott said. "Every week they announce a new threat. 'Today is a code orange.' 'Today is a code red.'"

Yeah, and one fo the dilemmas we had before 9/11 in the Clinton adminstration was a country continually soothed with lies that bin Laden wasn't a threat, and artificially inflated "surpluses."

Jihad Jim is an ass, and a seditious one at that.