"Cowards Cut & Run, Marines Never Do", Republican Jean Schmidt

[mopaul]

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051119/NEWS01/511190372/-1/CINCI

Dressed in a red, white and blue suit, Schmidt, a Clermont County Republican and the most junior member of the House, took to the floor to protest the resolution.

She told her new colleagues of a phone call she had just received from freshman Ohio state Rep. Danny R. Bubp of West Union, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.

"He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message - that cowards cut and run, Marines never do," said Schmidt, of Miami Township. "Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body that we will see this through."

Democrats booed and shouted at Schmidt as Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., charged across the chamber's center aisle screaming that her comments were an uncalled-for personal attack.

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bitch

[Qanisqineq]

1. Ford "charged" across the aisle "screaming"?

I'm sorry I missed that. I just heard her comments and the reaction on the radio 3 or 4 times. Shit, why do I always miss out on the good stuff?

[Mutley]

4. Most of the good video from last night is here, including Schmidt's

insults. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5403593 Spread it far and wide. As many people in America as possible need to see what really went on last night so the repubs can't try to spin it in their favor.

[Qanisqineq]

6. thanks so much!

I'll kick it to help ya out.

:hi:

[Mutley]

15. No problem.

:)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. When Harold Ford starts screaming in anger...

then the shit has hit the fan.

[Greeby]

2. All of America needs to see this

That vile statement sums up the Republican Party

[spanone]

34. Her words were filled with hate & loathing. What an ugly person.

Fuck her and her marine.

[bluestateguy]

3. Freshmen Congressmen used to keep their mouths shut

Rarely would they even speak on the floor. They did as their party leaders told them to do, and they did not act as rabble rousers and troublemakers. They knew their place.

Jean Schmidt needs to learn her place.

[KharmaTrain]

18. You Think She Went Up There On Her Own???

That was planned to throw red meat at the wingnuts. They knew the Democrats would get pissed off...and damned right. Repugnicans knew her from beating Paul Hackett and thought this would put some salt in the wound.

Methinks this little tactic, just like many others, backfired big time. Her comments will be grilled all weekend...and will piss off a lot of military types who know who Jack Murtha is and not Jean Schmidt. She did us a big favor last night. Sure gave Paul Hackett, the next Senator from Ohio, a boost.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

49. Oh I'm sure she was doing EXACTLY as instructed by the Repub leaders.

They wanted to get this "coward" thing out, but didn't want to expose any of their IMPORTANT members to the fire, so they basically ordered their most junior person to sacrifice herself to take that hill.

[DS1]

50. That's an irrelevant argument

and I almost called it a point, almost.

[shaniqua6392]

5. Wrinkled up raisin faced witch!

What does she know about anything? Of course our troops would like to feel as if they have accomplished their mission. You would not like to think about your comrades dying for nothing. I say: Tell the Iraqi's they have six months to shit or get off the pot. Our soldiers are trained for combat in about four months. What the hell is taking so long? Are the Iraqi's retarded or something? Two and a half years? Bush does not want an exit strategy because he and his cohorts NEVER want to leave Iraq. We just have to keep the heat on this issue.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Republicans cut funding for social programs and run to the bank

with the proceeds. Republicans are in control and New Orleans was left to languish (we killed our own citizens) for days and days, Republicans run with their mouths full of false patriotism, Republicans cut and run when they see that the wheels are coming off one of the biggest frauds ever pulled off on the American public.

Hey look, there's one cutting and running right now... avoiding shrub's offer to campaign with him/her.

[hatrack]

21. And let's not forget the $3100 pay raise they were able to get through

:puke:

[fortyfeetunder]

8. So what the hell she calls Afghanistan?

Remember someone cut and ran a few years back, leaving the Taliban control the nation until 2001. Wonder who that coward was?

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. Notice how that is never brought up by the repukes?

Oh wait, the coward who did that, claims Afghanistan is a success and that the Taliban have been defeated. :grr: repukes are LIARS!

[Divernan]

9. Arrogant statement from someone who's never worn a uniform, let alone been

under fire. She has even less credibility than Chimpy in his pilot suit. Given that the majority of the US public disapproves of the war, I think she has screwed herself with her constituents, by calling the majority of them cowards.

[demodonkey]

10. What the hell, she "won" her seat based on heat-swollen ballots anyway!

"Beating" an Iraq Veteran in the process, so I guess that makes her an expert.

Another day, another fair election in Ken Blackwell's Ohio.

:eyes:

[KarenS]

11. actually, I was hoping to see the same kind of scenes

that they show from the Japanese legislative body,,,,

fisticuffs!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

12. "Cowards Cut & Run"

"Daddy, isn't that why George Bush went AWOL?"

[ComerPerro]

13. Anyone have any quotes from her election?

Any derogatory statements about her opponent that she may have made?

I think that might be some good evidence of just what she thinks of the troops who don't fall right in line behind Bush...

[merbex]

14. Somebody please tell me that we have someone to run against

her in November 06

[DrDan]

16. Let her know

[e-mail]

http://www.jeanschmidt.com/

[Eagle_Eye]

17. Cute little phrases that will get even more people killed for oil

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. The marines wil cut and run if they're told to.

That is, if the politicians ever get the courage to cut funding to the occupation.

[chat_noir]

20. Google bomb, anyone?

Just as Googling "miserable failure" brings up *'s WH biography*, what do you think Schmidt's Google bomb should be?

* http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIC,HPIC:2005-21,HPIC:en&q=miserable+failure

[WePurrsevere]

22. Consider the source & It's not always cowardly to "run away" sometimes...

it takes more brass ones and intelligence to know when the time is right to count your loses, pack up your pride and back away.

Second of all, get a huge "cow lick" of salt, put on your "thigh high waders" and consider the source. I'd be a whole lot more surprised if this Buhb's spoke out FOR it.

Colonel in the Reserves, Danny Buhp... an Ohio State Republican Rep... and from HERE:

Memberships/Affiliations: Ohio Farm Bureau; Adams County Christian School Board; Vice-President, Marine Corps Reserve Association; President, Southern State Community College Foundation Board; Staff Judge Advocate, Marine Corps League; Vice President, Adams County Traveler's and Business Bureau; Appalachian Counties Enterprise Network Board; Life Member, National Rifle Association; Life Member, American Legion
<snip>
Recipient: Joint Service Commendation Medal; Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal; Army Commendation Medal

Some people should come with warning labels.

[Ian David]

36. Bubp deserves some phonecalls himself. It was his letter, after all!

How brave he is to let the war continue while he's safe at home whoring for the GOP.

Danny R. Bubp (R)
District 88
Address:
77 S. High St
11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email Address: [e-mail]

http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/MemberDetails.jsp?DISTRICT=88

[PsN2Wind]

41. wouldn't you think a "warrior" like him

with a rack of medals earned for showing up, would have put in papers requesting active duty so he could "kick some Iraqi ass". He is what used to be referred to as a REMF, rear echelon Motherf***er.

[Bill McBlueState]

23. whoa, whoa, what is *this*?

From the article:

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated former Marine colonel, had pushed the measure to a vote.

Is it opposite day or what?

[WePurrsevere]

27. True but Murtha is a retired officer, Buhb is reserves but

active (in more ways then one... see my post above for his memberships)

IME that can often make the difference between what they feel they can openly say.

BTW - I didn't think the correct term was "former" but "retired" for a ranking officer?

[Junkdrawer]

32. Murtha did NOT push for the vote - the Repukes proffered a satire...

by Duncan Hunter...they tried to push words in Murtha's mouth.

[Bill McBlueState]

33. oh, sorry...

I was getting at the idea that Murtha pushed for the vote, not anything about his status as a retired Marine. Sorry I wasn't more clear!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

47. Wow, a "newspaper" reported this? Do they do ANY research into

the articles they write? They couldn't have got it MORE wrong.

[theHandpuppet]

25. Bubp must still be pissed off

...that Adams County (where West Union is located) voted for another vet, Paul Hackett, over Jean Schmidt in the Congressional election.

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Bubp is that noise I hear when I fart in the bathtub.

A weekend warrior like his hero George aWol Bush.

Edit...Later on guys I gotta take a Schmidt!

[Sydnie]

35. And Schmidt is the smell that mingles with the steam above that tub

Thanks for the visual ... I needed that laugh.

I think I have a new word in my vocab ...

"Excuse me, I didn't mean to Bubp at the dinner table like that, in front of all your guests." Yep, that will do it.

[theHandpuppet]

26. Bubp also attacked Hackett's patriotism

During the congressional elections.

From http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050801/NEWS01/508010350

The event was billed as a rally to honor veterans and local residents serving in Iraq, but much of the speech-making - particularly from State Rep. Danny Bubp, R-West Union - consisted of criticizing Hackett, an Iraq war veteran, for his differences with President Bush and the administration's policies in Iraq.

Bubp - who, like Hackett, is a Marine Corps Reserve officer - stood under the helicopter's wings in his military dress uniform, saying that the one thing military officers do not do "is criticize their commander in chief."

"I served for eight years under a president who loathed the military but we never said a word about it," Bubp said.

Max Cleland, the former Democratic senator from Georgia who lost both legs and an arm serving in Vietnam, campaigned again with Hackett Sunday and said the Republicans' criticism of Hackett was "just wrong."

"They say they support the troops," Cleland said, "but they won't support this troop."

[WePurrsevere]

28. As an active officer Hacket is being very brave. That don't criticize bit

(ime) is the normal "bs" stuff I'd expect to hear from an active military officer.

Do you happen to know if Buhb has actually ever seen real combat?

TIA :)

[rexcat]

39. Paul Hackett is in the US Marine Reserves and when not on active duty...

he is just like every other citizen of this country and has the right to criticize the * administration. While he is on active duty, one week out of the month, the two week obligation in the summer or while activated (such as stationed in Iraq or elsewhere) he can't criticize the * administration.

[WePurrsevere]

46. I know he has the "right", just so many don't use it especially if they

want to advance in the military and stay "safe" (mind you this belief is from my paranoid, schizophrenic X-DH who was Army AB late 'Nam era).

[lonestarnot]

30. Look who really cut and ran.....LOL

[DistressedAmerican]

31. Beligerent Loudmouth Bitch

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. How much you want to bet the letter from a 'Marine' is a fake?

I wouldn't put it past an ugly witch who had to cheat to get her seat to fake a letter to read on the House floor. Funny how the power went out at just the right time during the ballot count when she won the election in OH.

[mopaul]

38. did i EVER wonder?

first thing i thought of, 'i have here in my pocket a letter/document blaa bla blaaa bla' tired old trick.

[DoYouEverWonder]

45. Found out who the jerk is that wrote the letter

He's a Republican State Representative in Ohio. Cute?

Danny R. Bubp (R)
District 88
Address:
77 S. High St
11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email Address: [e-mail]

[natrat]

42. stupid bitch -"stay the course" as a phrase is now a joke

[Toots]

43. Well we know Bush* would never cut and run just look at his service record

D'oh he did cut and run well look at Cheney's... D'oh he ran ran ran ran and ran, is there any Republican elected official who hasn't run from their service obligation? Very few indeed. One thing about Republicans, they have gall. Oh do they ever have gall.

[mondo joe]

44. She sure "cut and run" from her own comments, didn't she?

[UTUSN]

48. Hachet Face for Cutting and Running (from)

http://cmsimg.enquirer.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=AB&Date=20051119&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=511190372&Ref=AR&MaxW=300&MaxH=700&border=0