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

The Hill (Open Secrets) ^ | 9-3-03 | Bill Thomas

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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.” '

Then DeLay chuckled, “I certainly don’t want to see Teddy Kennedy in a flight suit.”

Within days, several Democrats fired back, among them former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.), a Vietnam veteran, who defended Kennedy’s Army record and called DeLay, who never served in the military, “a chicken hawk.”

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.

Jonathan Grella, spokesman for the majority leader’s office, said the Democrats’ tactics does not surprise him. “It just goes to show you how much DeLay makes them sweat.”

[.45MAN]

If Kennedy was on the beach people would try and push him back in that water like they do with the other whales.....

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[Redbob]

Ya gotta love that Tom DeLay!

[toomuchcoffee]

Is that his butt?? Eeeewwwwwwwww!! Gross!!

[TRY ONE]

Sorry, but this photo still does not reflect his Largeness! I met him face to face in the Senate Russell offices and HE WAS HUGH! He actually waddles when he walks.

[veronica]

He actually waddles when he walks.

And sometimes staggers too, no doubt.

[raybbr]

LOLOLOLOL

[GreenHornet]

One day Ted Kennedy was standing on a street corner, when a cop came over and told him to break it up.

[secret garden]

I see where this is going...your senator is soooo fat....

[Defender2]

So that's where Teddy's been hiding ALL that Mass. Tax Revenues!!!!

[Arrowhead1952]

your senator is soooo fat....

Hey NY RATs, your senator's thighs are soooo fat.... she has the market cornered on cellulite

[Bonaparte]

Here he is about to displace half the water in the Atlantic ocean...

[dead]

Jeez, "I know you are but what am I?" silliness in the Senate.

Pee Wee Herman would be rolling over in his grave, if he were dead.

[xJones]

If Kennedy was on the beach people would try and push him back in that water like they do with the other whales.....

Ted Kennedy's so fat that when he jumps in the ocean the whales start singing, "We are family".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You've heard the story of the guy who had his ass kicked up between his shoulder blades ?

[yoe]

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is flabby on national defense.

A truism if ever there was one and he is fat besides! Truth is truth and fact is fact – you can’t change that. Senator Kennedy is just plain Blousy, politically and physically, and that is the factual truth!!

[sheik yerbouty]

No, he is under the protection of Greepeace. The senator is considered to be endangered feces.

[secret garden]

What a great user name!

[Piquaboy]

It is always all right for liberals to call names but never, never do that to them, or the media will come after you big time.