Delahunt’s Zinger

American Spectator ^ | June 28, 2008 | The Prowler

[Laverne]

It would be generous to say we were stunned," says a Republican House Judiciary Member, describing his response when Congressman and Obama Superdelegate William Delahunt (MA-10) yesterday asked the vice president's chief of staff David Addington about water boarding of terrorists. Addington declined to comment, citing President Bush's refusal to discuss techniques used to attain vital intelligence, and added that another reason not to respond was that Al Qaeda is probably watching.

Congressman Delahunt's response: "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you." (Emphasis added.)

But the House Republican and Judiciary member was not so stunned to notice that no Republican rose to defend Addington, or to call out Delahunt for essentially inviting al Qaeda to impart physical harm to a senior member of the Bush Administration. "It was shameful that we didn't do anything. I can't explain it," says the GOP member.

Just as shameful, according to a Democrat Judiciary staffer: Delahunt was congratulated for "zinging" Addington after the hearing. "Zinging was the term used. These guys are tired of the same old lines and excuses. I mean how many times can they pull out that old bogeyman of al Qaeda. The American people aren't buying it anymore, and certainly Delahunt doesn't."

Delahunt claims he didn't mean what he said. But enough other Democrats on Capitol Hill clearly understood what he had done. Sen. Charles Schumer, who bunks down with Delahunt when they are in Washington, D.C., made sure his schedule was such that he wouldn't be in contact with Delahunt for several more days, according to a Senate leadership aide. "We don't want any part of that guy right now. We expect he's going to be in the middle of something pretty ugly, pretty quickly."

Some political consultants who watched the Judiciary Committee hearing say that Republicans should be capitalizing on Delahunt's and Democrats' overplaying their Addington strategy. For example, Democrats during the hearing never once inquired whether any of the interrogation techniques used against terrorists had produced important intelligence for use against the enemy.

"You have to understand, guys like Delahunt, really all of the Democrats here, don't care about winning the war against the terrorists, or keeping us safe. They might have cared after 9/11, but now they are ruled by the radical left. All they care about now is putting the Americans who put in place the policies that have kept us safe for seven years on trial. The terrorists just don't matter to this crowd," says a former Department of Justice lawyer. "And if the American people and Republicans understood this, the sooner we'd be seeing a different election."

[Laverne]

This is finally getting some coverage. I needs a LOT more. Delahunt should be censured at a minimum. I'm waiting for a formal response from the VPs office; I hope I don't have to wait too long. His comments were outrageous. And where were the republian's to come to Addington's defense during the exchange -- silent. That is shameful.

[vietvet67]

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDR7ghl7AU

[SumProVita]

“Delahunt should be censured at a minimum.”

He needs to be booted OUT!

[healy61]

And a republican admits they stood with a thumb in their rear ends and said nothing. Even the democrats are shunning this guy. I would have said something and meant every words.

[slapshot]

If these spineless GOP wussies wont stand up to the dembot idiots, why should I spend my time and money to help Republicans get elected?

[slapshot]

If these spineless GOP wussies wont stand up to the dembot idiots, why should I spend my time and money to help Republicans get elected?

[Diogenesis]

Delahunt was not elected by the people.
He lost the vote, but sought out a corrupt
Judge to overturn the election results for him.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Who were the Pubbies on the committee who sat on their hands? They should be taken to task as much (or more) than Delahunt.

[tsmith130]

"It was shameful that we didn't do anything. I can't explain it," says the GOP member.

Yeah, we've been wondering the same thing for years.

[andy58-in-nh]

He’s a Democrat from Massachusetts. Unless he’s caught with a dead girl or a live boy, he’s not going anywhere. And based on past events, maybe not even then.

[muawiyah]

Thinking of even newer interrogation techniques that could be used on Delahunt to find out why he thinks about AlQaida taking revenge on Republicans so much.

Dollars to doughnuts the puke is a member, or at least a "pledge".

The stupid, stupid Democrats who are chosing to run against the people of the United States this year really should be handed their heads on platters on election day.

[traderrob6]

“Unless he’s caught with a dead girl or a live boy, he’s not going anywhere. And based on past events, maybe not even then.”

It takes more than that nowdays.

[Diogenesis]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Migraine]

He needs to be booted OUT! ...

...but first, made into a poster-child and campaign commercial star in the upcoming elections. That quote personifies the dimowits' "love of country".

[johnny7]

And where were the republian's to come to Addington's defense during the exchange -- silent. That is shameful.

I heard NO republicans(small R on purpose) scream out on this. It got some attention on Rush and Howie Carr's show... but I didn't catch it on the Drive-by's. Delahunt's arrogance was treasonous!

[SumProVita]

Excellent suggestion!

[LibLieSlayer]

I will not work for or donate to the Republican Party until they return to the Reagan Doctrine... until then... they are dead to me. I will vote against osama’s boy however.

LLS

[SE Mom]

The more things change...the more they stay the same, eh?

[Jim Noble]

Who were the Pubbies on the committee who sat on their hands? They should be taken to task as much (or more) than Delahunt.

The candidate selection process for state and Federal offices, at least among the GOP where I live, is severely dysfunctional.

Most Republican Members of Congress are wealthy, come from wealth, go to the same schools, the same churches (if they go at all), belong to the same clubs, and marry the same women as their opposite numbers.

They don't fundamentally disagree (for the most part) with Democrats on the core values of liberalism.

They DO disagree, to some extent, on what measures are sensible or prudent to implement nondiscrimination and compassion, their ruling principles.

They are, to use Lawrence Auster's great term, "right-liberals".

So when exposed to communists like Delahunt (a communist is merely a left-liberal who has followed his values to their obvious conclusion), they shrink away from confrontation, lest they be accused (inevitably) of being Nazis.

It is very important that an opposition, however small, be elected to the House of Representatives that will act against the interests of liberalism (both varieties) whenever and wherever found. Perhaps there are 20-30 Members now who fill the bill.

I'm afraid, however, that to get them out of the GOP and into a new party, the GOP will have to collapse first, or be taken over from the grass roots.

[tsmith130]

Sigh...so true. Except these days he’s not whispering or working secretly. It’s right out there for all to see and yet...nothing becomes of it.

[ripley]

“delahunt’s zinger...”

the usual stupid, adolescent, macho, democrat punk with no sense of propriety, decency or honesty.

if the art of dueling still existed you would see a whole bunch of democrats turn tail and figure out another way to be subversive.

IMHO

[Ann Archy]

VILE....EVIL.....you Democrats must be SO proud!! Sadly, you are.

[rockabyebaby]

He’s a Democrat from Massachusetts. Unless he’s caught with a dead girl or a live boy, he’s not going anywhere. And based on past events, maybe not even then.

Bingo! Republican talkradio here picked him apart yesterday, I'm glad this story is finally getting some press.

[freema]

Delahunt pretends to give a shite about Larry Hutchins, too.

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/hutchins060907.html

[Roccus]

"It was shameful that we didn't do anything. I can't explain it," says the GOP member.

I can explain it. You are Repubicans! You have no balls! You would rather be back benchers eating up the crumbs of pork that the rats throw your way so as to buy your votes!

[mware]

From my understanding Representative King who had already objected to Delahunt getting to ask question, (affirmed by Chair Nadler) left the hearing.

After King left, Delahunt was given time belonging to another congressman, and Nadler allowed him to ask the questions.

BTW, Delahunt was not even on the committee, and had no right to ask any questions.

[rawhide]

Not a member of the committee? Why was this guy allowed to ask questions? Do you think a group of democrats planned this? This guy needs to be ran out of town.

[ferv888]

You are so right, where are the Republicans. I am sick to death of getting the “hell” kicked out of us by the DEM’s and the willing accomplis,the media. where are the PR guys and spokesmen, oops, spokespersons for the Republicans. Every time on TV, Drill, Addington, Terror.

What do they not get at the RNC.

ferv888

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

My courageous congressman, Steve King, was not silent.

This is from the Des Moines Register so don't know if it's legal to publish it, or not but I also heard a reference to Congressman King on FOX. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080628/NEWS09/806280322/1001/NEWS

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

It was also Congressman King that took on McClellan. King needs reinforcements. We need to send more Republicans to congress to help him and others like him.

[mware]

Dana Milbank: Another great moment in legislative history just occurred. Steve King (R-Iowa) objected to Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) being allowed to ask questions because he’s not on the subcommittee. But now King is out of the room, and the chairman, Jerrold Nadler, has given the floor to Delahunt under “unanimous consent” because nobody is here to object.

from the Washington Post-Washington Sketch

[mathurine]

That’s a funny remark, and applicable in may states, but considering that Massachusetts has an openly homosexual congressman it has repeatedly re-elected, and that strong-swimming Kennedy fellow covering the dead girl part of the comment, you are probably right in your assessment of contemporary standards.

[jch10]

I read somewhere that all Republicans had left the hearing, allowing Chairman Nadler to let Delahunt speak. He, Delahunt, is not a member of the committee and Repubs had objected to him participating.

Republicans should be demanding recourse and exposing this, as well as apologizing to Mr. Addison

[xkaydet65]

He may need to be booted out, but until he is he needs to be tied around the ankles of every Dem in Washington and especially around the ankles of the haloed one in Chicago. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to vote Republican. At least the Dems know how to go for the throat and do it. The GOP sits around worried that the WaPo will say something mean about them.

[YellowRoseofTx]

It got some attention on Rush and Howie Carr's show...

Mark Levin finally got Delahunt to call in his show last night but he waited until the very last minute to call....then "explained" his comment as being misheard. That he didn't really say "They", he said he actually said "I", but that is not what he said on tape.

[mware]

People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Republicans should have learned you NEVER leave the ground to the enemy.

Remember when the USSR walked out on the talks in the UN over Korea???After they left the building a resolution was presented to send troops to Korea.

[Diogenesis]

Where was the Secret Service with this salient threat
to the Vice President and his Office?
Why do they NEVER protect this President and VP from threats?

Perhaps they are still chasing Angelina Jolie’s stolen camera.

[sobieski]

Clearly neither is a disqualification there (Kennedy, Stubbs), nor is being caught being involved w/ a prostitute and his ring (Frank).

[popdonnelly]

There’s no leadership among the Republicans in Congress. Which is why they stand to lose big this Fall.

[johnny7]

I musta' heard tht audio clip 20 times... HE SAID “THEY”!

“Don't lie to me Carlo... you insult my intelligence.”

[paul51]

"It was shameful that we didn't do anything. I can't explain it," says the GOP member.

Not the least bit surprising to me. The GOP in congress is too busy keeping their heads down and trying to hold on to their positions and maintain their ability to milk the system rather than try anything such as leadership.

[SuziQ]

Work to get Republicans elected to replace these spineless GOP weenies. Candidates who WILL stand up to the likes of Delahunt.

[Dahoser]

Delahunt also said on the Great One’s show that waterboarding did not produce valuable information even when Mark challenged him about Khalid Sheik Muhammad.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Republicans should be demanding recourse and exposing this, as well as apologizing to Mr. Addison

Yes. But did the Pubbies leave because they feared an upcoming confrontation that they'd rather avoid? If so, as bad as sitting there and saying nothing.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Delahunt is a POS.

[nathanbedford]

"You have to understand, guys like Delahunt, really all of the Democrats here, don't care about winning the war against the terrorists, or keeping us safe. They might have cared after 9/11, but now they are ruled by the radical left. All they care about now is putting the Americans who put in place the policies that have kept us safe for seven years on trial. The terrorists just don't matter to this crowd," says a former Department of Justice lawyer. "And if the American people and Republicans understood this, the sooner we'd be seeing a different election."

How can this be credited? Are we actually to believe that men at the pinnacle of power in America, United States Representatives, the living embodiment of the establishment, men and women who have worked ceaselessly to claw their way into these positions of power, would now risk it all and stand aside as the enemies of their country tear apart the very apparatus which gives them power? How can we believe this? That is not to credit them with patriotism but merely to credit them with cynical self-interest.

The charge is really breathtaking. Could it be that something greater than even self-preservation animates their behavior? Why would they risk seeing themselves go down even with the ship of state? How can they so placidly contemplate an American Armageddon?

Sometime ago FrontPage Magazine offered an analysis Saul Alinsky and his blueprint for the destruction of America as laid down in Rules for Radicals. The authors there suggest that Barak Obama is an acolyte of Alinsky, indeed he dedicated years of his life to putting into practice Alinsky's methods. A reading of the article which appears here, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D6E27ECE-9798-4F01-A378-3F1405F69704 uncannily parallels the biography and modus operandi of Barak Hussein Obama

The frightening part of all this is in connection with this context: Alinsky believes that America must be destroyed so that his vision can be put into place. Is that not and the likely consequence of what has been suggested in the first paragraph quoted above? In other words, the vision of these people on the left, even in Congress, is no less apocalyptic than the one outlined below which describes Alinsky.

Having painted a verbal portrait of a thoroughly corrupt and melancholy American society, Alinsky was now prepared to argue that wholesale change of great magnitude was in order. What was needed, he said, was a revolution in whose vanguard would be radicals committed to eliminating the “fundamental causes” of the nation’s problems,[22] and not content to merely deal with those problems’ “current manifestations”[23] or “end products.”[24] The goal of the radical, he explained, must be to bring about “the destruction of the roots of all fears, frustrations, and insecurity of man, whether they be material or spiritual”;[25] to purge the land of “the vast destructive forces which pervade the entire social scene”;[26] and to eliminate “those destructive forces from which issue wars,” forces such as “economic injustice, insecurity, unequal opportunities, prejudice, bigotry, imperialism, … and other nationalistic neuroses.”[27]

I'm coming to the belief that we are dealing with a psychic pathology. That means that logic has no effect on the state of mind of these revolutionaries. Incidentally, it also goes a long way to explaining a conundrum that has puzzled many posters here on Free Republic: why do so many Jewish liberals vote and behave in a manner inconsistent with the security of Israel?

It certainly means, if true, we are dealing with a very sinister threat. One that is even more dangerous because merely to raise the question will generate charges of racism and/or McCarthyism and immunize these revolutionaries. On the one hand, these revelations will be ignored to death by the mainstream media and, on the other hand, when mentioned, these charges will be dismissed as the ravings of racists or McCarthyites.

[DPMD]

These guys don’t misspeak. They know exactly what they’re saying, and mean every word.

Delahunt of Mass. hopes Addington gets whacked. And his soul brother Fagan in the MA State leg wants carte blanche to declare total war on 6-year olds on behalf of rapists’ rights to keep raping children.

They know what they’re doing and saying. They’re terrorists. They need to be treated as terrorists.

[Jim Noble]

Are we actually to believe that men at the pinnacle of power in America, United States Representatives, the living embodiment of the establishment, men and women who have worked ceaselessly to claw their way into these positions of power, would now risk it all and stand aside as the enemies of their country tear apart the very apparatus which gives them power? How can we believe this?

It is very difficult for normal people to understand a movement which operates under the rule, "Think of it always, speak of it never".

They've kept their eyes on the prize, all these years. They've never been this close, so close they can almost feel their man's hand touching the Bible next January, and speaking the lie, "I swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America".