Posted on 10/01/2007 11:55:51 AM PDT by fweingart
A spokesman for the Family Research Council says Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) was the "ringleader" of a Senate hearing that turned into a "circus" and disrespected two top U.S. military officials.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Peter Pace was shouted down by hecklers from the anti-war group Code Pink after reaffirming his belief that homosexuality is "counter to God's law" and should not be condoned by the military.
The hecklers had been booing and jeering Pace and Defense Secretary Bob Gates throughout a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Pentagon's $190 billion funding request for the war in Iraq. The anti-war protestors created such a disturbance that Senator Robert Byrd, the committee chairman, was forced to suspend the hearing.
Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council says Senator Byrd let the protestors take over the hearing. "And then to top it all off, Senator Harkin starts attacking General Pace on his belief that homosexuals should not be serving in the military. Something that has been part of the military conduct for a very long time and something General Pace personally believes in, yet he was mocked and ridiculed by Senator Harkin," says McClusky. "And congratulations to Senator Judd Gregg for standing up to Senator Harkin and telling him he should be ashamed for his actions."
He says Harkin (D-Iowa) and Byrd were pandering to the more radical elements of their party. "I think it was a play to the radical Democratic base, the anti-war base, groups like Code Pink and MoveOn.org," he stated. "It was definitely a play to them, and I'm sure that if we went to their websites right now we'd probably see alerts telling them to thank Senator Harkin and to thank Senator Byrd for their mistreatment of a respected general."
McClusky says Pace showed a tremendous amount of character by keeping his cool and standing firm in his opposition to homosexuality and adultery in the military.
It’s incidents like this that make me thank God that Gore wasn’t elected in 2000.
Fixed it.
If we detested Gore what will we think if the unwashed gaggle of Anti-American Imbeciles (AAI) elect an empress Hitlery to rule over us?
Danke.
Byrd is all that plus being a complete schmuck too!!
Bitte.
He, like Hillary and Billy-Goat, emotes on and on saying absolutely nothing of importance while pointing his shaking, quaking finger at the C-Span camera
There are MANY Congress Critter, Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy, Durbin, Reid, Byrd, Biden, etc, etc,..... who seem immune to consequences..
In a SANE world, Dueling would be legal.
In the past - the risk of being challenged to a Duel was the ONLY thing that caused foul mouthed lying sonsuvbitches from the sort of behavior these lying, cheating, corrupt assholes get away with on a daily basis...
It been far too long since any of them had to face a insulted man with a pistol in his hand at 10 paces.
Since we never seem to get our way perhaps we need a benevolent despot to take over for a decade or so until this nation can resume as a true republic.
what ever happened to decorum, especially in the Senate?
3sheets does not stand alone sadly, in fact, he hardly stands well at all anymore,, time for him to moveon.. and turban durban, leaky leahy, sKerry, chuckie and all the dem fatales on the female side of the aisle,,
It is no wonder the American public views Congress with the lowest approval or highest disapproval rate than ever before. The clowns in Congress have no clue as the the real reason they are there. What is worse, they have no reason to care as long as we keep sending them back.
I'm sick and tired of the 'clowns in Congress' who have distorted our Constitution to the point of ascininity and, along with the homosexuals and other liberal pansies, have accommodated the ravaging of our nation to the point that it's fit only for illegal immigrants from south of the border who can't see the difference.
It really would be a riot if some of these pimps had to put up or shut up.
Where is the video??
Harkin is an unabashed communist!
Try channel 2.
I don't know much about the subject. I would like to see what would happen of someone did, in a public venue, call someone like Byrd out on a point of honor, and demand his satisfaction. Not so's he could shoot him, but just to see what the reaction would be.
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