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April 29, 2004
A HERO STEPS UP IN THE SENATE
For the longest time, I have argued strenuously that what Democrats need more than anything else is for one of our number to stand up and take it to the hypocritical, phony, slanderous Republicans by fighting fire with fire -- hitting them as hard as they hit us, with the same tactics and same tone of disdain. No more of this "respect for the process" or "honorable process" crap -- kick the ever-living bastards right between the legs with as much as we can muster. Usually, Democrats don't hit back as hard as we could -- which just floors me, since there is so much to hit these lying traitors with. But today, on the Senate floor, finally, one of the party leaders fought back.
Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey -- all 80 years of age of him -- stood in the Senate and called out Dick Cheney for the cowardly blowhard that he is, after draft-dodger Cheney had the chutzpah to question Vietnam vet Kerry's service in battle. A few of my favorite excerpts:
In a scathing speech on the Senate floor, Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, said that he did not think politicians should be judged by whether they had military service but added that "when those who didn't serve attack the heroism of those who did, I find it particularly offensive."
"We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others," he said. "When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were."
Lautenberg pointed to a poster with a drawing of a chicken in a military uniform defining a chickenhawk as "a person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it."
"They shriek like a hawk, but they have the backbone of the chicken," he said.
"The lead chickenhawk against Sen. Kerry [is] the vice president of the United States, Vice President Cheney," Lautenberg said. "He was in Missouri this week claiming that Sen. Kerry was not up to the job of protecting this nation. What nerve. Where was Dick Cheney when that war was going on?"
Senator Lautenberg, you are my hero. Thank god someone finally called them what they are and read it into the national record. I swear, I'd like to move to New Jersey just for the privlege of voting for him. Bush and Cheney indeed have the backbones of chickens... and I'm thrilled and inspired that someone said so in the offical record of the US Senate.
