Posted on 11/30/2006 8:53:43 AM PST by Dark Skies
Newly elected Senator Jim Webb, D-Va., was so infuriated by a remark from President George W. Bush that the former Marine officer was tempted to punch the commander-in-chief.
The confrontation, disclosed in the influential Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill, came shortly after the midterm elections at a private White House reception for newly elected lawmakers.
Webb, who defeated Republican Sen. George Allen in Virginia, ran a campaign critical of the administration’s Iraq policy, and has a son, a Marine lance corporal, serving in Iraq.
At the reception, Bush asked Webb how his son was doing.
Webb answered that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, a source close to Webb reported.
The Associated Press quoted Webb as saying, "I told him I'd like to get them out of Iraq."
"I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush countered, according to the source.
Emily Heil wrote in The Hill: "Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t.”
Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd confirmed that "Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner. Basically, he asked about Jim’s son; Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.”
Todd wouldn’t comment on Bush’s response.
If I were a Senator I would make it a point to run into this silly dork and ask him every day How is his boy.
Wouldnt it be great if every time he met a republican Senator they asked him."How is your boy".
If he worked where I used to work we would ride him like a pony and laugh when he got mad.
We get what we deserve. The barbarians run off the classy folks, cause the classy folks don't like being around them and don't like the trouble.
Ya won already! Now sit down and STFU!!!
Talk is cheap Jimmy. Go ahead. Take your best shot. Moron.
Interesting to speculate what would have happened to him if he had yielded to temptation and slugged the President. Not much I'd guess.
I was thinking he should have given in to his baser impulse (as 'Rats are prone to do) and slugged Bush. Webb would have the shortest "career" of any Senator-elect. Probably wouldn't even be sworn in. Kinda hard to serve a Senate term concurrent with a term in a Federal pen for assaulting the President with intent to do harm.
I hope Virginians are proud of who they have elected to represent them in the Senate. The voters turned out a perfectly good man because of a stupid "macaca" comment, and they elect this clown instead. Way to go, Virginia...
Webb is a loose cannon. He's not fit to serve.
LOL!
I'm proud of President Bush for bristling a little bit and responding the way he did.
What is it with all these peaceniks always wanting to resort to violence????
I envy your omniscience. But of course, you already know that.
I don't blame Virginia, but I do blame those that voted for him... they get the bulk of the blame. It is truly sad.
LLS
"I envy your omniscience."
Nice.
Webb's comments are all over the place. What you call "omniscience", I call consulting sources other than NewMax. No surprize they are not in this article since it claimes he did something he didn't.
Webb is sick puppy.
Anyone who writes voyeuristic child porn has mental problems.
Sounds to me like he is going to be a one term Senator.
Then again, you know that too.
Perhaps the best part of Mr. Webb was flushed down the toilet in that leaky condom his daddy was reusing.
Sounds like Webb was upset that his son wasn't getting political favors, now that the father is part of the Democrat ruling class.
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