Tearful Thomas(action 'plain stupid')Pelosi promises to wreak(Demrat 'week from hell' on GOP bills)

SF Chronicle ^ | 7/24/03 | Carolyn Lochhead

[NormsRevenge]

Washington -- His voice trembling nearly to tears, Bakersfield Republican Bill Thomas -- one of the most acerbic and imperious members of Congress -- made an extraordinary apology on the House floor Wednesday for what he called his "just plain stupid" decision to ask Capitol Hill police to eject Democrats from a meeting room Friday.

[dennisw]

Is this tearful Thomas in Hillary's files? What inner guilt and weirdness turns such a man into a blubbering blob of protoplasm?

[NormsRevenge]

FYI - Full title of article is

Tearful Thomas calls his action 'plain stupid' But Pelosi promises to wreak Democratic 'week from hell' on GOP legislation

Brian S - New thread is an update from AP on article you posted earlier this week.

House Democrats plan disruptions to highlight child tax credit debate; week from hell for the GOP

2PAC must go! She is a despicable creature.

[teletech]

Bring it on RATS! Bring it on! There are still some Republicans with cajones in the House!

[Redbob]

Now Thomas is going to be a "moderate?"

Time for him to go: We have quite enough "moderate" Republicans. thank you very much!

[Ann Archy]

I like the apology. Apologies are done by strong people.....not weak people. It takes quite a person to make a sincere apology. It's a very humbling experience and I admire Thomas for that. Nancy Pelosi will look even MORE like the mean-spirited, bitter b@tch that she is, and we will look better.

[princess leah]

Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton "the wicked witches from the West and the East" Could SOMEONE PLEASE drop a house on these witches!

[NormsRevenge]

IT was a pretty tough thing to watch, a grown man brought to that in Congre$$. What depths will the demRats not sink to?

They openly insult their fellow members of Congre$$ and instigate controversies, now without fear of punishment it would seem. Well, punishment and humiliation for some, at least, the Rs.

Stark should be censured for his filthy words directed at a chairman of a congressional committee. Shame Fortney, Shame!

[Uncle Hal]

I do not understand why Thomas did this. Give the Dems an inch and they will take a mile. The Dems smell blood. This whole thing would have blown over in a few days.

[Lexington Green]

Thomas blubbered like a baby. What a wuss!

[eniapmot]

Much as I hate to agree with Stark, this guy is a bag of wet tissue. Worse than a fruitcake, he is a spongecake.

[dennisw]

Thankfully I missed this clown performing on TV.

[goldstategop]

Bill Thomas had a spine of jelly. Republicans apologize, Democrats just tough it out. Nancy Pelosi's gang will have him for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from now on.

[NormsRevenge]

Republicans believe in principles , well most do anyway, democrats believe in results and using insults to get results. Thomas was asked to apologize by his fellow ways and means committee R members and Speaker Hastert as well.

Check out the Robert Novak column at the Chicago Sun Times. I am not going to post his article, but do take a gander for his view of the happenings. A small excerpt follows... which is acceptable for a Chicago Sun-Times article.

Thomas' police state draws rebuke, then apology by Robert Novak

On Tuesday, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert laid down the law to Thomas. On Wednesday, an emotional Thomas took the House floor to say he was sorry for embarrassing the institution.

Thomas, perhaps the most talented and most difficult figure on Capitol Hill, causes plenty of trouble by himself. But he is part of a broader problem in this ninth year of Republican House control. Longtime GOP members cannot forget 40 years in the Democratic desert and are still resolved to repay indignities they suffered as the minority party. The result is arrogance that provokes disorder.

Oh , My.

[Zevonismymuse]

Now Thomas is going to be a "moderate?"

I have known this man for almost 30 years. He is a ruthless human being, but has always voted with the mushy middle. He is first and foremost a politician. A prime example of someone who has only had his own interests at heart.

The last time Thomas received so much attention was for being at the top of the Republican list for kiting checks. Remember that fiasco? If it weren't for Thomas and a few others, it would have been a list which was exclusively Democrat.

Also important to note that this former Bakersfield College Professor was appointed, not elected, to congress when Congressman Ketchum died suddenly from a heart attack. As soon as Thomas was in place he began working on staying there. Thomas has been there ever since.

[Joe Brower]

I don't get it. The democRAT Stark is the one who starts hurling insults and threatening his "esteemed colleagues", and then the Repub Thomas in charge of the meeting is the one who ends up apologizing for restoring order? Insane.

The only "apology" the demos are due is an uppercut to the jaw. This is the kind of ball-less "leadership" the American people get when they vote the GOP in as a majority? We've been gypped -- such abject cowardice is sickening.

[pogo101]

The bottom line with Miss Fortney Stark is that he is a bully -- and, like most bullies, won't learn his lesson until he is put soundly on his fanny, in the literal sense.

Were I a GOP member who had to endure Fortney, I would ... well, I wouldn't exactly instigate a fight, but I'd give HIM every opportunity to do so whenever there were witnesses; and, if he did in such a way that counterattack clearly was just, I would deck him, plain and simple. *snort* Frankly, I suspect that a lot of Dems secretly hope for this, just as a lot of GOP members secretly are relieved to see Bill Thomas taken down a peg.

[F16Fighter]

Charles Rangel: "All of us, at some time or the other, have had poor judgment, and it's always difficult for us, especially as politicians, to say publicly that we made a mistake."

I wonder just how many we're snickering uncontrollably after hearing these words come out of Rangel's big fat stupid mouth?

[NormsRevenge]

Yes , it does take a strong person to extend the apology. And Yes, apologizing is good for the sake of the soul , if nothing else.

I just don;t know how many in Congre$$ still own their souls, tho. ;-)

[martin_fierro]

Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better temper'd.

-- Romeo & Juliet, Act III