DeLay criticizes Dean, Clark on economy, terror
Gee, Tom DeLay having difficulty with the truth. Whodathunkit?? It seems the man is so drunk on his own burgeoning personal political power that he assumes that whatever dreck passes his lips will be perceived as the truth. What a f*****g moron.
I could handle it if DeLay were simply just another Republican. It is his partisanship, his corruption, and his arrogance that have earned my enmity. DeLay's narrow, judgemental, and intolerant view of the political world, combined with his complete intolerance of dissension is everything that is wrong with the Republican Party. And yet the morons in my district keep voting for him. Who says we don't get exactly the quality of representation we deserve?
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, weighed in on the Democratic presidential race Sunday, accusing Howard Dean of lying about the economy and saying retired Gen. Wesley Clark was removed from command for "character reasons."
DeLay and other Republican leaders lashed out against Clark and Dean last week after the Democratic contenders criticized the way President Bush has handled the war in Iraq and the economy at home.
Dean, a former Vermont governor who is considered the front-runner in a field of nine Democrats vying for their party's nomination, said Americans are not safer as a result of the Dec. 14 capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Clark said that rather than going after Saddam, Bush should have concentrated on tracking down Osama bin Laden, who has claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
DeLay said Sunday those comments were "outrageous" and "cuckoo."
"It's easier to find Osama bin Laden than it is to find Wesley Clark's foreign policy," he said during a nationally televised interview on NBC's Meet the Press. He added that Clark, a former NATO commander, was "removed from that post because of character reasons."
Clark's former commander-in-chief, President Clinton, has denied that.
DeLay said the current administration and the U.S. military have done "a magnificent job in Iraq" while dealing with terrorist threats around the world and protecting Americans here.
"I hope Howard Dean is nominated for the Democratic nomination. ... I think the Democrat platform could be titled, `Dean Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' " DeLay said. "We would love to run against Howard Dean. He is so far out there on the fringe."
Asked about Dean's recent criticism of Bush and the Republicans for a record $500 billion deficit, DeLay said, "Howard Dean has a real hard time with the truth. He says one thing one day and says something else the other day. This isn't the largest deficit in history ... and the Republican House passed the first balanced budget in well over 40 years in the `90s. We have credibility; they don't."
DeLay said it is "big-spending Democrats who want to take everybody's money and dampen this economy that is starting to show signs of booming."
That assessment is in direct conflict with predictions of the Congressional Budget Office, however. On Saturday, that office warned that the country is facing a "major economic crisis."
I find it interesting that, in the absence of hard facts, DeLay has no problem stooping to character assassination and innuendo. While stating that Clark was removed from power because of "character reasons", he never recognizes the need to explain what it is he is referring to. To him, it is enough to merely hint at his "truth"- after all, who would have the temerity to doubt the veracity of "The Hammer"?
In accusing the Democrats of "big spending", he ignores the reality that the Bush Administration is spending money like a drunken sailor. Oh, but I forget- if Democrats spend, it's profligate and irresponsible. If a Republican does it, it's for the good of the country. You know, DeLay couldn't spell "hypocrisy" if you spotted him the "h", "p", and "y".
Ah, well, I suppose truth- especially political truth- is relative. It's just too bad Tom DeLay wouldn't recognize the truth if it snuck up and bit him on the @$$.
