Posted on 07/25/2003 1:15:25 PM PDT by chance33_98
DeLay: Dems Reveal True Swinging-Seventies Selves; Big-government, Blame-America-First Liberalism Died with Disco
7/25/03 3:25:00 PM
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To: National Desk
Contact: Stuart Roy or Jonathan Grella, 202-225-4000, both for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
WASHINGTON, July 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today gave a speech before a crowd of College Republicans at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC.
DeLay said the single organizing philosophy of the Democrat party is "an irrational, all-encompassing, broiling hatred of George W. Bush" and that they have decided to either ignore or reject the realities of 21st century life.
Below are excerpts from his speech.
"While everyone else got the memo that big-government, blame-America-first liberalism died with disco, the Howard Dean Democrats still want to party like its 1979. Maybe we should thank the Democrats for shedding their moderate clothing to reveal their true swinging-seventies selves. Frankly America doesn't need a president in a hot-pink leisure suit," DeLay said.
"Just look at their presidential candidates: it's like they're lost in a time warp. They want to tax like Mondale, spend like Carter, and fight like McGovern," DeLay said.
"No responsible leader could have permitted Saddam Hussein to remain in Baghdad, yet the Democrats now spew more rhetoric about President Bush than they ever did about Saddam Hussein," DeLay said.
"Let's be real clear, if you take their comments to their logical conclusion, they're essentially calling our Commander in Chief, Benedict Arnold," DeLay said. "If we are to take this nonsense seriously, that is how out of control the Democrats' rhetoric has become. But you see that's the whole point.
"The Democrats' accusations aren't meant to be taken seriously," DeLay said. "I will never call the Democrat Party unpatriotic, but I will call their current leadership unfit to face the serious challenges of the 21st century."
DeLay has increasingly taken a leadership role in foreign affairs through his work to expand freedom and his articulation of democratic principles. He was a forceful advocate of President Bush's decision to confront Saddam Hussein's aggression. This weekend DeLay will travel to Israel for a week long trip to the Middle East where he will be speaking at the Knesset on U.S.-Israel solidarity.
And as the Swiss innkeeper said to your Clouseau question after the dog bites him.
"That is not my dog".
Your reply #10, where you all of the sudden castigate Sir Gawain for a personal attack against you that never happened.
But what the hey, feigning indignity, is an old political ploy.
BTW, SG thinks he is a comedian and always makes "contrarian" statements to cause trouble, IMO.
Yeah, you've never done THAT...
Tom Delay rules!
What does that have to do with Dane?
And Dennis Kucinich – a long-time member of Congress – now calls for legislation – I love this – to ban “mind control” weapons in outer space.
These ideas aren't unpatriotic… they're just weird.
It makes you wonder if at their next presidential debate, the Democrats are all going to show up wearing aluminum-foil helmets to protect their brain waves from the mother ship!
People who believe such things cannot be trusted with national leadership, period.
I type one last comment, before leaving work and heading to a Mets game (they won! how bizarre is that?) and I come back to find I’m a conspirator!
Dane, what exactly is my role in this conspiracy? I haven’t figured it out.
My only point was that the GOP (including Bush) spends money in giant, stadium-sized buckets. They do it relentlessly.
I go to work every day, and when I go home, a sizeable chunk of my paycheck is spent on programs that have nothing to do with the constitutionally-defined role of the federal government. Nothing to do with any conservative’s concept of limited government.
Does noting this make me a conspirator? Are people who agree with me co-conspirators? Is criticism of the GOP anti-American? Am I a Dixie Chick? Am I the fat one? She’s a bitch, so I’d rather be one of the butter-faced skinny ones, if you don’t mind.
There is nothing near intellectual about the left. An intellectual uses truth, logic, and pragmatism to engage in science and debate. A pseudo-intellectual (liberal, lefty, commie, socialist) is the 180 degree of a true intellectual, they are vermin that confuse the process. I'm so sick and tired of our side calling them "intellectuals" I don't know whether to take a good crap, or go blind. Please stop calling these worthless douchebags "intellectuals" it gives real intellectuals a bad name.
Are you kidding? Dead is a legend here on FR.
The Bush administration are big spenders, the facts speak for themselves.
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