Posted on 06/20/2005 11:28:15 PM PDT by ambrose
Frist tells Durbin to apologize on Senate floor
By James G. Lakelyand Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 21, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday demanded that Sen. Richard J. Durbin make a "formal apology" on the floor of the Senate for comparing U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazi and Soviet regimes and that he strike his remarks from the Congressional Record.
In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Mr. Frist, Tennessee Republican, said previous bids by the Senate's No. 2 Democrat to clarify his remarks didn't go far enough.
"Subsequent statements by Senator Durbin indicate only that he was regretful if people misunderstood his remarks," Mr. Frist said. "We do not believe his remarks were misunderstood."
The letter is the latest in a wave of criticism against the Illinois Democrat, which yesterday was joined by the Anti-Defamation League and a White House spokesman and, over the weekend, by Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and a prisoner of war in Vietnam who was tortured in captivity.
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Frist could start by not being so polite to liars.
Censure is not good enough. This jackass will wear that censure like Clinton did his impeachment - as a badge of honor. (Thanks, again, Trent Lott, you gelding's ass.)
Kick his seditious ass out. Period.
Because the people voted for them. It has nothing to do with how wimpy our Republican government officials are. They control the House the Senate and the Executive Office and yet they act like they are the party which controls nothing. Post #18 says it all.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged."
---- Abraham Lincoln
Stop Dick Turbinladen Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!Contact your REPS
Good point. :-)
That's one possible answer.
Another possible answer, which seems to rarely come up around here, is that many of these Republican officials actually do know what they're doing. They may even, perhaps, know more about politics than you, me or most any other political junkie on this forum. As much as we'd like to think otherwise. :-)
of REPUBLIC STEERS "in action"
Do you have a source for the Lincoln quote in post 4? I'd like to use the quote but need the source. Thanks in advance.
Perception is in the eye of the beholder. In this respect, what I have been seeing I have not been liking. I could care less what their reasons are for what they are doing, if what I perceive they are doing to be wrong in MY book. MY book says who I will vote for next time.
dittos!!
Some more interesting reading on Pres Lincoln
Google search can do almost miraculous things
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