Hey! Hillary, Joe, Joey the Liarmann, ReThugs far and wide….Not everybody got down on their knees for ‘The Commander Guy’!

May 5, 2007

This guy for example….

Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) had this to say way back when the stinking AUMF was voted on and approved by the disgusting crew of sycophants, Military Keynesians, Fundamentalist whackjobs and general cowards, such as Senator Diane Feinstein we call our ‘Congress’:

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution.

I am deeply troubled that lives may be lost without a meaningful attempt to bring Iraq into compliance with UN resolutions through careful and cautious diplomacy.

The bottom line is I don’t trust this President and his advisors.

Make no mistake, we are voting on a resolution that grants total authority to the President who wants to invade a sovereign nation without any specific act of provocation. This would authorize the United States to act as the aggressor for the first time in our history.

It sets a precedent for our nation - or any nation - to exercise brute force anywhere in the world without regard to international law or international consensus.

Congress must not walk in lockstep behind a President who has been so callous to proceed without reservation, as if war was of no real consequence.

You know, three years ago in December, Molly Ivins, an observer of Texas politics, wrote: ‘For an upper-class white boy, Bush comes on way too hard. At a guess, to make up for being an upper-class white boy.”

’Somebody,’ she said, ‘should be worrying about how all this could affect his handling of future encounters with some Saddam Hussein.’ How prophetic, Ms. Ivins.

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