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sisyphusshruggedWhat kind of sick world do these people live in?
At long last, no shame and no decency at all.
For those of you who are not familiar with Rep. Hastert (who, parenthetically, escaped Sen. McCain's fate of five years being tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp by avoiding the draft), this is what the abstemious fellow looks like.
Just has sacrifice written all over the vast expanses of his face, no?
A two-month-old House-Senate standoff over the 2005 budget burst into public acrimony yesterday, when the GOP House speaker questioned Sen. John McCain's credentials as a Republican and suggested that the decorated Vietnam War veteran did not understand the meaning of sacrifice.
The battle over the budget has highlighted rising tensions between a House dominated by conservatives and a Senate where moderates still wield considerable influence, with President Bush's agenda caught in the crossfire.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (Ill.) lectured McCain (Ariz.) -- an outspoken opponent of Bush's tax cuts -- over war sacrifices, drawing a blistering retort from McCain, who nearly died of war wounds in a North Vietnamese prison camp.
At long last, no shame and no decency at all.
For those of you who are not familiar with Rep. Hastert (who, parenthetically, escaped Sen. McCain's fate of five years being tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp by avoiding the draft), this is what the abstemious fellow looks like.
Just has sacrifice written all over the vast expanses of his face, no?
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Date: 2004-05-20 05:18 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-05-20 05:21 am (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:24 am (UTC)'Course, I know he'll never do it, but a girl can dream :)
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 07:01 am (UTC)When John Kerry asks you to be vice president again.....
Just say yes!
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Date: 2004-05-20 07:55 am (UTC)You know what's really, really funny?
Cutting spending used to be a bedrock of the Republican party. They used to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
No more.
my highly intellectual take on politics within...
Date: 2004-05-20 08:27 am (UTC)Re: my highly intellectual take on politics within...
Date: 2004-05-20 08:55 am (UTC)??
Date: 2004-05-20 08:46 am (UTC)Hopefully, one that will explode from it's own pomposity any day now.
--Jill Smith (http://www.writingortyping.com)
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Date: 2004-05-20 02:51 pm (UTC)Great post, other than the fat joke.
Date: 2004-05-22 02:38 pm (UTC)(Other than the gratuitous fat joke, however, I'm totally with you - Hastert is an ass. But even if he was thin and beautiful, he'd still be an ass.)
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Re: Great post, other than the fat joke.
Date: 2004-05-22 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: Great post, other than the fat joke.
Date: 2004-05-23 09:10 am (UTC)My feelings about fat jokes is I'm cool with accurate fat jokes - jokes referring to heaviness or difficulty fitting in airline seats or whatever. But jokes suggesting that fat people have worse characters than thin people enourage a bigotry that exists in real life - and they do so even when the person making the joke is fat.
Then again, I don't mean to make a federal case of it. There are obviously worse problems in the world than jokes.