This morning, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY03) stood up on the House floor and to ask President Bush a couple of questions. Note the delicate sensibilities of the North Carolina congressman who doesn’t like throwing Bush’s own phrase back at him:
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With brave American soldiers dying in record numbers, I have two questions for the President — just whose posteriors are we kicking and how do you know? With Sunnis and Shiites killing themselves and each other, plus an incompetence Maliki government, we don’t know who we’re fighting, much less where we’re kicking them. And while we’re tied up in Iraq, Al Qaeda thrives in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So the President’s turn of phrase will go to the blooper hall of fame with other Bush Golden Oldies like last throes, links to Al Qaeda and Mission Accomplished. There was a time when America’s success meant defeating Nazis, tearing down communism’s Iron Curtain and walking on the moon. Supportng our troops meant honest safeguards, not trash talk. How low have our standards fallen when the President points to the debacle he created and says, this is what I’m proud of. Most americans believe in a country that’s capable of much higher standards, and if America were really “kicking butt,” the President wouldn’t need to say anything, every one would know it. I yield back.
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Frits!
Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.
why does the vid stop at 6 seconds?
Clever clever. Now DO SOMETHING! See? You described it yourself, Mr. Yarmuth, bush WANTS them to destroy one another. Get It? Get It?
THANK YOU!
Please please please-more folks need to just tell the truth about everything.
Thank you Rep Yarmouth!
about time!….MORE PLEASE!
Clip stops at six seconds. As Jenny’O wrote. I would have liked to have seen & heard the whole minute. Nevertheless the transcript suggests that this one needs to be all over YouTube and seen by lots of people, imo.
No offense to the congressman, but Bush said that a couple of weeks ago. After all that time that’s the best he could come up with?
If this is the opposition, we are screwed.
Notice WHO is getting more and more pissed about this war….
Southerners, like Webb and Yarmouth.
Because of the higher percentage of southerners in the military,
there has to be a thinner and thinner layer of support for bush’s
debacle in the south….
Rep John Yarmouth is from Ky, It is time for you newbloods to show a little more courage, that is your f**** jop, we do not want speeches anymore, we want the madness to stop. Nancy and Harry are not up to task, tell them to step aside and to it 1st thing tommorrow morning.
And when we gloriously go and bomb Iran, exactly whose asses are we kicking? A people who have the most favorable opinion of the US of any other (non-Israel) country in the region. Well, at least up until then…
But then the media insists they are a horrid threat /DejaVu
Jim McDermott of Washington was admonished for the “kick ass” phrase on the house floor.
http://us.f609.mail.yahoo.com/.....;box=Inbox
Philip Giraldi
When those mushroom clouds start popping up all over the Middle and Near East, both the demented neCONs here in America and their equally rabid brethren, the crazed Zionists in Israel, will be nearing an orgasmic high, more than satisfied that their plans for ME conquest have finally come to fruition.
They won’t be the only ones gushing with joy, for here in America, the Christian Zionists will also be dancing in the streets, waiting for that “RAPTURE” that never comes.
Curiously enough, the word and actions of what the Christian Zionists call “RAPTURE” never appear in the KJV of the Bible.
Doesn’t matter to people who so drunk on their religion and so consumed by hatred of others. What does matter to them is that thru their political dealings and control of others, they have helped set off WW III, which will build them a Stairway to Heaven, constructed out of the charred corpses of millions, if not billions, of human beings.
Philip Giraldi is a former officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency who became famous for claiming in 2005 that the USA was preparing plans to attack Iran with nuclear weapons in response to a terrorist action against the US, independently of whether or not Iran was involved in the action.
Too bad the attack on Iran — the very reason why we are in Iraq — is going forward apace, and this ‘blame Bush for his rhetoric’ approach is USELESS in stopping that.
And, anyhow, it’s quite clear that Bushco is kicking Democratic butt, with the help of a generational conspiracy in the RNC and the corporate media, at least as regards the war powers and the intention of widening the war to the global nightmare Bushco is all about delivering.
that’s my representative. and we are so glad to have him here.
try the quicktime version, that one plays the whole thing….
the Republicans object to the word ASS….
jeeesh
Who is from North Carolina?
Rush to War @ 10:
You have a delusional concept of what ANY Dem leader in the Congress can accomplish with the R side colluding with these warcrimes.
You have nearly the best you could have. In the Speaker, you have the most progressive Speaker in fifty years, probably than ever. And Leader Reid is doing about what any other 51-49 Leader would be able to accomplish.
So, you are scapegoating to make yourself feel better. How about putting your comments into context with the facts, and stop backbiting OUR best people so you can feel justified.
and i would also like to mention, it’s YARMUTH not YARMOUTH.
Where’s FDR when you need him?
Most americans believe in a country that’s capable of much higher standards, and if America were really “kicking butt,” the President wouldn’t need to say anything, every one would know it. I yield back.
The same reason The Republican Crime Syndicate propped the giggling murderer up on that aircraft carrier and pranced his sissie ass around with a sock stuffed in his pants.
Because he is a failure. It is he that failed to prevent the attacks on American on 9/11. Bush is a failure and a phoney.
His handlers must do everything to take Americans attention away from that fact!
Nicole, one little mistake. You referred to him as “the North Carolina congressman”, whereas at the beginning of the post you correctly identified him as being from Kentucky.
Paul in LA @ 18:
Your best people suck then. Keep on electing them. They are doin’ a “helluva job Brownie” as Shrub would say. Great alternative assclowns to Shrub’s assclowns. Oh, forgot…their hands are tied…not enough votes, blah, blah, blah……but in the same breathe…oh how we kicked the RETHUGlican ass in the elections for CONgress!!! People putting any faith in either of these two War Parties is EXACTLY what is wrong with this country. Sorry, but I am sick and tired of partisan bs politics.
Who is that idiot from NC? Likely some far right loony religious nut.
Great, now if the rest of the Dems in congress would stop being such candyposteriors, we might get somewhere .
CensoredFan @ 23:
Oh, boohoo for you. Wah!
And the number of representatives YOU have in this government?
ZERO.
That’s got to take some real hard work.
Me, I go into the streets in ten minutes to protest AGAIN these crimes against our country. You? You lob your dirtball at Nancy Pelosi, and then you go have a nap or a beer, and feel good about yourself. You’re so pure!
Wondering @ 20:
Hiding under Bush’s wing and waiting for better weather.
much kudos to Rep John Yarmouth and a big fuck you to the senator from n carolina.
Paul in LA Says:
Me, I go into the streets in ten minutes to protest AGAIN these crimes against our country
Good for you Paul. And I’ll continue to work 70 hours a week so you can do that. It’s the great thing about America. You just keep doing that. So far all that protesting has worked out great for you. What has it done? NOTHING. Even your own party is ignoring you. Nice. But keep on keepin’ on.
The little runt needs to get his ass kicked and there are at least 50 million Americans who would line up for the opportunity.
I believe that was Patrick McHenry of North Carolina that stood up against Yarmuth.
Paul in LA
Don’t believe it does nothing.It changes one person at a time.I’ve just got back from maybe the 150th Tues night vigil,always go with strongly worded sign.There has been a sea change in response with most now in agreement with the protesters.Of course there will be a few gung hos but disarm those bastards with a smile they can’t respond to.Peace now
The US president is an idiot
http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit.....h-has.html
Rep. Nancy Pelousy (D-CA) will bring a resolution to the House floor tomorrow to censure Rep. Yarmuth.
WashStateBlue @ 9:
I don’t think that is so. the larger military bases are in the south but the highest number of soldiers are from the northeast I believe.
Dave @ 17:
This hillbilly congressman who wet his bed over the “butt” kicking comment.
dadams @ 28:
The closeted pasty white doughboy from NC is a congressman not a senator.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 24:
No, he’s the other type of red state Republican. The closeted homo conservative, and this one has connections to a murder/suicide scandal http://www.pamshouseblend.com/.....aryId=2820 (assuming that was McHenry)
Ron McD @ 16:
If only they were as sensitive to spiraling debts and endless half trillion dollar senseless wars for big oil and Halliburton.
Good on you Yarmouth. Great sentiment, and pointed questions that will certainly go unanswered.
It may be just me, but I would have responded to the request to tone down the perceived vulgarities by saying “If it is good enough for bush to use these terms it should be good enough for his sycophant boot-lickers to hear it in his own words!”
PLEASE GET IT RIGHT. Yarmuth is not from North Carolina. He’s from Kentucky.
I voted for this guy.
Greg @ 31:
Judging from this story:
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2.....he-offing/
I’d say McHenry is simply panicky at any mention of the word “ass.”
Watch that pasty faced mealy mouthed loser (McHenry) get his head handed to him by Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Blitzer won’t bite on the ridiculously false accusation that this scum bag tries to sell. I will never forget this guy as a Karl Rove protégé with a southern twang.
CensoredFan @ 29:
If you could work another 55 hours a week on my behalf I could devote all my time to protesting, rather than just the few hours I can scrape together to stand on the corner or at the train station, or at the federal building with my signs for peace and an end to bloodshed.
And Paul in LA~
Keep on keeping on………I’ll see you out there.
Here is the link for my last comment. It really is worth watching this guy get his buried by Wolf
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/.....ry-pelosi/
Never mind Nicole, I re-read it and understand that the North Carolina congressman was the one objecting to Yarmuth. My bad!
the only thing getting its ass kicked is our treasury which is 3 trillion dollars more in debt since the mouth-breather had his supreme court buddies appoint him into office
CensoredFan @ 29:
You will continue to work your job so that I can go protest? HILARIOUS.
As for the effect of the protest, you clearly don’t understand it at all. You have no clue how STARVED Americans are for 1) Expression of Outrage, 2) The Comradery of the Opposition (”water the grassroots”).
You just don’t get the value in such work, and you’re so negative and critical of people who — while still managing to pay their rent — are working at bringing about change.
The big joyous grins I see in people driving by is clear enough to me. Compared to your echoing sarcasm and pessimism, it’s not a hard choice.
tjb @ 32:
The support that public protest gives to the populace is a crucial aspect of keeping our society from stagnating under the oppression of lies and rampant brutal crimes. Without people in the streets, there is too much risk that people would simply turn off.
FACING THE TRUTH is better than running from it, and protesters help keeping the truth alive.
Thanks for your efforts, tjb!
And you, leslie.
Reverend Jackson said it best when he said, “Keep hope alive!”