[Billthedrill]

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

[battlegearboat]

The Left's McCarthy.

[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.

[The_Victor]

...irresponsible verbal diarrhea.

Describes McDermott to a tee.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 . . .

[gridlock]

Note that Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. castigates McDermott and Dean for trading in conspiracy theories, but states that, without question, the US invaded Iraq just to grab the oil. The author is not criticizing McDermott and Dean for repeating crazy conspiracy theories so much as repeating the wrong crazy conspiracy theories.

Jamieson is a long way from turning in his DNC Secret Decoder Ring...

[BlackRazor]

Asked to elaborate about whether he thought the timing of the capture was scripted to benefit Bush, McDermott said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing ...

What a silly thing to say! How exactly does the timing of Saddam's capture now benefit Bush politically more than at any other time? I mean, if the thing was going to be timed and all, I'd probably have suggested mid-September 2004 would have been ideal. Not December 2003. Sheesh!

[Freedom4US]

McDermott has obviously slipped over the line into providing aid and comfort to the enemy. The first mistake was allowing him back into the country after his little sojourn over to Iraq in the first place.

The marxists have managed to convince America that it is impossible to commit treason or espionage. If his actions don't qualify, what in the hell does?

[Diogenesis]

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

[dangus]

What is so funny is that no-one has asked the question:
What timing did it coincide with?
It's hysterical that he talks about "the convenient timing" without saying what event he refers to.
Isn't it just a little bit suspicious that Jim McDermott goes crazy publicly NOW...
that Michael Jackson is finally arrested?
Sorry, I could invent conspiracies linking OJ Simpson to the Beatles' reunion, the first Gulf war and even Dole's counter-attack against the Republican Revolution, but I can't make any connection here.

[Maria S]

Don't know if it's true or not...I've heard on a couple of talk radio programs that Mr. McDermott has a tweensy drinking problem and had had one two many when he made his comments.