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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
You gotta try pork on a stick! Presidential candidate Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) endorses new version of a Washington staple while campaigning at the Iowa State Fair, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
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.
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To: GreenHornet
I also heard that he had to take out group insurance on himself.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:00:24 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
To: .45MAN
Comparing Kennedy to whales is really insulting to the whales.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:00:52 AM PDT
by
Eagle Eye
(There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
To: veronica
I don't think you understand the gravity of Ted's problem. He thought they said CENTER of Mass, not SENATOR from Mass. The Man from Hyannis Portly.
Jerry Nadler is hugely saddened by DeLay's attack.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:03:22 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
To: veronica
How can we get DeLay into a Senate Majority Leader position?
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:05:31 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: secret garden
Many thanks!
To: veronica
Teddy is a fat, ugly. bloated, lying drunk.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:10:55 AM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: Piquaboy
Senator Kennedy is so huge, that he has two smaller senators in orbit around him.
.... the back of his neck looks like a package of hot dogs.
....His biggest fear...The Turnstile.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:18:46 AM PDT
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I cannot support a lipless cross eyed career politician who can't fill out paperwork correctly.)
To: secret garden
Your senator is sooo fat he has smaller senators orbiting around him.
L
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:23:08 AM PDT
by
Lurker
("First get the facts right. Later on you can distort them any way you please." Mark Twain)
To: veronica; hellinahandcart; KLT; dighton; general_re; Paul Atreides; dead
"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." They are gonna send Jerry Waddler in Wet Teddy's stead.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:24:50 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("How do you know he's a king?" "Because he doesn't have sh*t all over him.")
To: veronica
If they performed liposuction on that gut I bet there would be enough to build another small person. Ick and Eeuw!
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:29:34 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: veronica
I loved your photo so much I just emailed the that 'fat murdering pig' himself with a little note telling him how much I agree with Congressman DeLay's assertion about being 'flabby on national defense' and how disgusting the thought of 'the fatboy' in a flight suit is him.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:30:46 AM PDT
by
harpu
To: veronica
I loved your photo so much I just emailed (with the photo attached) the 'fat murdering pig' himself with a little note telling him how much I agree with Congressman DeLay's assertion about being 'flabby on national defense' and how disgusting the thought of 'the fatboy' in a flight suit is him.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:31:33 AM PDT
by
harpu
To: veronica
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:32:37 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: SkyPilot
Hahaha! Shouldn't Teddy be wearing a bra?
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:41:40 AM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(This cow is independently owned and operated)
To: TheSpottedOwl
You beat me to it!
Those puppies are HUGE!
To: veronica
It seems the congressman is placing himself out front on the critique issues. Could be to deflect the critisism being spewed at Bush. And their taking the bait, Dean and Kennedy and the media playing into his hands. Got to love the Hammer, the hide of an elephant.
To: veronica
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.
The truth hurts!
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:51:38 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: 1Old Pro
DeLay is a lightning rod; he would cause more controversies and becomes very ineffective as a leader.
To: 1Old Pro
How can we get DeLay into a Senate Majority Leader position?
It's going to be tough since we already have two pubbies in the senate. However, they are both lightweights, so it would be nice, but I like Delay right where he is. And to think I used to hate him.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:54:56 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(Deconstruct the Left)
To: veronica
And with Congress back in town, its get-even time. Are all politicians just children? They all act like spoiled little brats. They have never grown up.
And these are the so called leaders of the USA??
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