Posted on 03/10/2007 12:31:50 AM PST by JohnHuang2
A video of Rep. David R. Obey criticizing anti-war Democrats as "idiot liberals" circulated on Capitol Hill yesterday, with Republicans using it as an example of Democrats' split over the Iraq war.
The 20-term Wisconsin Democrat, who voted against authorizing force in Iraq in 2002, was caught in an unflattering light on tape by the Occupation Project, an anti-war group making the rounds on the Hill.
Yesterday, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee apologized for yelling at the group and said his outburst was "another example of a country needlessly and painfully divided on a war that I have opposed from the beginning."
When members of the group, including the mother of an Iraq veteran, asked during a six-minute impromptu conversation if he supported cutting troop funding as a way to end the war in Iraq, Mr. Obey exploded.
"We're trying to use the supplemental to end the war ... it's time these idiot liberals understand that," he said. "There's a big difference between funding the troops and ending the war."
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Sadly, Obey doesn't think HE is a liberal.
I think he said "Go TALK with somebody else".
At the rate they're going, Cindy Sheehan will be head of the DNC.
This is what happens when one is completely ignorant and naive, and programmed with sound bites -- a full flowering Useful Idiot -- possesssing only two working synapses: War Bad...War Bad...War Bad...
Not off to the side! The dude's been living in a bubble for the past 40 years, and his butt must be chapped from lobbyists, sycophants, and REMFs kissing it all those years.
If it takes moonbat-nutjob-leftists to pi@@ him off, so be it!
For all of his "accomplishments", all I can say is:
Term limits.
Very enlightening. Thanks for posting.
Obey isn't a liberal, he's a communist and has been for his overstay in Congress. I'm not kidding, he is one of the worst.
Mr. Obey may have secured another 10 years in office just by saying what he said. As for backtracking later...
Well, he comes from a long line of communists who have benefited from the company of useful "idiot" liberals.
The good news is that the hard Left is running the show of the Democratic Party. Look for a Green Party candidate or an even more liberal Democrat to challenge Obey next year. I seriously doubt it though. Obey is the Ted Kennedy of the House.
Unfortunately he's from my district. (7th District, Wisconsin... central Wisconsin) He's never gotten my vote, nor will he ever.
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