Posted on 06/17/2005 7:04:26 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Vermont Senator Pat "Leaky" Leahy tried to spin his way out of the Democrats' Nazi-gate scandal yesterday - after Illinois Senator Dick Durbin compared U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to soldiers in Hitler's Third Reich - by saying his colleague was misquoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Asked whether he objected to Durbin's characterization of GI's as "Nazis," Leahy told WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show, "First of all, with Sen. Durbin, I'd be very careful about taking quotes off the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
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"They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context," he added, "even making them up." Durbin's quotes, however, didn't appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Unfazed by his error, Leahy blasted the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, suggesting that the U.S. had done just as much damage to Iraq as Saddam Hussein.
Reminded of the Iraqi lives that have been saved since Saddam's fall, Leahy shot back - "We could also think of the tens of thousands of Iraqi lives that have been lost since the fall of Hussein."
Id love to get ahold of that audio...
Leahy Defends Nazi ;)
I'll get a tinfoil hat award for this, but these guys can't be THIS stupid. They certainly do seem to be working either to start a civil war or finish off the Rat party. I can't imagine what they hope to get out of either...
I have never heard anyone claim the Wall Street Journal made up quotes. That's that other New York paper.
Just because an elected member of Congress projects "nazi" on anyone or anything they perversely oppose, the Congress member cannot claim his/her "patriotism." Chronic anti-Americanism is comparable to the infamous WWII Vichy France collaboration, aiding and abetting the invading Nazi army.
Please note that the small ruling class of France was composed of Parisian leisure cafe society, indifferent business owners and expatriate elites. Only the French peasants were patriotic and resisted the Nazi invasion, and participated in the French (UK) Underground which aided Jews. "Vichy" is synonymous with "collaborator" or "traitor."
I am calling Durbin, Democrats, et al, "Vichy" rats.
History reminder:
..he's definitely one of the stupidest senators I've ever heard speak....
"What is un-real is the a republican (Lott) makes an off-hand comment that was true and is hounded out of the leadership.
Dem's continue to say worse and nothing happens to them.
The Right is losing and, not controlling the conversation."
Good point!!! However let's face it republicans are different. I will bet a year's salary that if a republican senator had made the same remarks as Durbin did, we'd be upset here with him equally. I think that explains why fellow republicans distanced themselves from him even though his remarks were clearly defendible and taken out of context.
nick
I would enjoy doing this to every treasonous RAT in the Senate. I would give each of them a thrashing that they would never forget and then some.
We should all get top hats and gutta-percha canes.
At least now the Traitor Party is open about its sedition and treason. The more they talk, the more the mask of eighty years is stripped away.
No wonder nobody trusts these bastard democrats with the national defense of this country.
These people have really gone over the edge into insanity. I am soooo glad I'm not a dimocrap anymore.
The Senate Dems called in Howard Dean to, obstensibly, chastize him for being over the top. I wonder if it wasn't the other way around.
At any rate, I just don't see how this can be seen as anything less than the final self destruction of the democratic party. Lets take the best case scenario for the dems. Lets say the WaPo and USA Today polls are correct and the American People are utterly sick of the Iraq War. Even if that were true, and assuming it is, does that mean the American People would suddenly root for the United States to lose? Does that mean the American People would support aiding the enemy or likening our troops to Nazis? Moreover, take Gitmo. Gitmo is associated with the war in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Do most Americans favor giving terrorists the same civil rights as are enjoyed by citizens? I think not.
That's right. A turd at least has a purpose.
Pray for pubbies to have some courage and stick it to these thugs.
"I support certain old senate traditions".
Me too, but there aren't many men left in the Senate, males yes, but not men on either side. Would that there were. Guys like Leahy and Durbin need a bit of "counseling".
SO -- the audio of Turban Durbin that I keep hearing on the radio is not really him but some pod-person???? How can you take what comes out of someone's mouth out of context???? Leahy -- what a friggin' moron!!!
Wasn't Leahy formerly a member of the American Communist Party or the Socialist Worker's Party??
Just playing to their constituents. I put more blame on the people who perpetually elect these morons rather than the morons themselves. Wonder how much Leahy will win by in his next election. Repeal the 17th Amendment!
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