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Dems out to avenge DeLay’s comment on Kennedy’s girth
The Hill (Open Secrets) ^
| 9-3-03
| Bill Thomas
Posted on 09/03/2003 6:04:46 AM PDT by veronica
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Democrats are still fuming about a remark last month by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), suggesting that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is flabby on national defense. That made a lot of people very mad, said one Democratic insider. And with Congress back in town, its get-even time.
Speaking to a College Republicans meeting after his return from Israel, DeLay said, To gauge how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier. '
Then DeLay chuckled, I certainly dont want to see Teddy Kennedy in a flight suit.
Within days, several Democrats fired back, among them former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.), a Vietnam veteran, who defended Kennedys Army record and called DeLay, who never served in the military, a chicken hawk.
Now party operatives are circulating an article that ran four years ago in the Houston Press, describing an impromptu news conference DeLay held at the 1988 GOP convention. According to the story, DeLay, a two-term congressman at the time, explained that he and vice presidential nominee and then-Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.), who during the Vietnam War joined the National Guard, were the unfortunate victims of supply and demand.
So many minority youths had volunteered
there was literally no room for the two of them to fight in the war, DeLay said.
Jonathan Grella, spokesman for the majority leaders office, said the Democrats tactics does not surprise him. It just goes to show you how much DeLay makes them sweat.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Massachusetts
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:04:47 AM PDT
by
veronica
To: veronica
If Kennedy was on the beach people would try and push him back in that water like they do with the other whales.....
2
posted on
09/03/2003 6:08:43 AM PDT
by
.45MAN
(And now that your here! Look where you are....)
To: .45MAN
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:11:09 AM PDT
by
veronica
(http://www.majorityleader.gov/news.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=123)
To: veronica
Ya gotta love that Tom DeLay!
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:11:13 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: veronica
Is that his butt?? Eeeewwwwwwwww!! Gross!!
To: veronica
Sorry, but this photo still does not reflect his Largeness! I met him face to face in the Senate Russell offices and HE WAS HUGH! He actually waddles when he walks.
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:23:38 AM PDT
by
TRY ONE
(")
To: TRY ONE
He actually waddles when he walks.And sometimes staggers too, no doubt.
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:27:10 AM PDT
by
veronica
(http://www.majorityleader.gov/news.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=123)
To: .45MAN
LOLOLOLOL
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:30:10 AM PDT
by
raybbr
To: veronica
One day Ted Kennedy was standing on a street corner, when a cop came over and told him to break it up.
To: GreenHornet
I see where this is going...your senator is soooo fat....
To: veronica
So that's where Teddy's been hiding ALL that Mass. Tax Revenues!!!!
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:35:09 AM PDT
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: secret garden
your senator is soooo fat.... Hey NY RATs, your senator's thighs are soooo fat.... she has the market cornered on cellulite
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:41:17 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Clone Ann Coulter, the woman sent by God)
To: toomuchcoffee
Here he is about to displace half the water in the Atlantic ocean...
To: veronica
Jeez, "I know you are but what am I?" silliness in the Senate.
Pee Wee Herman would be rolling over in his grave, if he were dead.
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:43:26 AM PDT
by
dead
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
To: .45MAN
If Kennedy was on the beach people would try and push him back in that water like they do with the other whales.....Ted Kennedy's so fat that when he jumps in the ocean the whales start singing, "We are family".
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:49:28 AM PDT
by
xJones
To: toomuchcoffee
You've heard the story of the guy who had his ass kicked up between his shoulder blades ?
To: veronica
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is flabby on national defense. A truism if ever there was one and he is fat besides! Truth is truth and fact is fact you cant change that. Senator Kennedy is just plain Blousy, politically and physically, and that is the factual truth!!
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:51:11 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: .45MAN
No, he is under the protection of Greepeace. The senator is considered to be endangered feces.
To: sheik yerbouty
What a great user name!
To: veronica
It is always all right for liberals to call names but never, never do that to them, or the media will come after you big time.
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:58:57 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
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