Cheney: Senate Committee Is ‘Stalinist’ For Blocking Swift Boat Funder’s Appointment

[babylonsister]

Have I mentioned lately how much I despise this man?
:grr: :grr:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/05/cheney-limbaugh-stalinist/

Cheney: Senate Committee Is ‘Stalinist’ For Blocking Swift Boat Funder’s Appointment

Yesterday, the White House bypassed the Senate and recess-appointed Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium. Fox contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that slanderously attacked Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) Vietnam War service.

Today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the Senate Judiciary Committee had deprived Fox of his “freedom of speech” because it would not confirm him “until he would go up to Kerry and apologize for supporting the Swift Boats.”

He added, “This is the kind of move that garners a lot of support from the people in the country. This shows the administration willing to engage these people and not allow them to get away with this kind of — well, my term — you don’t have to accept it — Stalinist behavior from these people on that committee.” Limbaugh’s guest, Vice President Cheney accepted the characterization, stating, “Well, you’re dead on, Rush.”

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The Senate Judiciary Committee never voted on Fox. Last month, the White House pulled Fox because it believed “his nomination would not have passed” the Senate. The Committee never told Fox that his nomination was contingent on him apologizing to Kerry.

Note to Cheney and Limbaugh: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin killed between 3 and 60 million people. There is no comparison between this man and the Senate’s opposition to Fox, who supported a group that slanders U.S. veterans.

Transcript:

LIMBAUGH: One more, and that’s the recess appointment of Sam Fox. Sam Fox is from my home state, and I know Sam Fox — he’s an immigrant, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, whose parents would have nothing — when they died they had nothing. He is a totally self- created man, a great American. And he was treated horribly by Senator Kerry and others on that committee, simply because he had made a political donation. They essentially told him he did not have freedom of speech in this country, until he would apologize, until he would go up to Kerry and apologize for supporting the Swift Boats.

Now the President has recess-appointed him. And of course, the Democrats have said they’re going to investigate this and going to look into this.

This is the kind of move that garners a lot of support from the people in the country. This shows the administration willing to engage these people and not allow them to get away with this kind of — well, my term — you don’t have to accept it — Stalinist behavior from these people on that committee.

CHENEY: Well, you’re dead on, Rush. I know Sam well. He’s a good friend of mine and has been for many years. I think he’s a great appointment. He’ll do a superb job as our Ambassador to Belgium. I was delighted when the President made the recess appointment. He clearly has that authority under the Constitution. And you’re right, John Kerry basically shot it down.

LIMBAUGH: You go on vacation, this is what happens to you.

CHENEY: If you’re a Democrat. (Laughter.)

[blm]

1. Dem spokesperson Hilary Rosen agrees with Rush and Cheney - swifts were fair

and Kerry should drop opposition to Fox.

This supposed Democrat just made these remarks to Tucker Carlson on MSNBC.

[AndyA]

2. Coming from a Fascist Nazi, what do you expect?

The man is so evil, even the Devil himself hides from him.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Speaks volumes that the only fucking place that cheney can go

is to limball. Anybody else would kick his ass.

[Catch22Dem]

4. No one is denying his freedom of speech!

But with that freedom comes consequences. I'm free to stand up at work and shout "I'm so sick of all you motherfuckers and I don't want to work with any of you any more." I'm totally free to do that and no one can deny me of this, but the consequence is I'd most likely get fired. Now, how it that wrong? He took a controversial stance, and should be prepared to deal with the consequences.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Tell me....what does cheney and bush call what they are.

A deserved rest....hell bush is always on vacation and cheney is always at an undisclosed location. It is a damn shame the democrats don't have platforms on the air and in the newspapers so they can slam cheney and bush once in a while.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Compare this administration to Hitler and Nazism and watch them

go ballistic. The way to be taken off the guest list at the military-corporate-prison networks is to mention nazism.

These people have borrowed from barbarians, inquisitioners, plunderers, communists, nazis, fascists. They cornered the market on religious radicals and nuts and lawyers who want to destroy, fly blindfolded males that they pick up off the street and tear out of their bedrooms and fly them to remote islands and countries to be tortured in bastardly ways. And now they say that something that is probably a lie is stalinistic?

[MasonJar]

7. Some dem spokesman; she does not speak for me. I apologize

to Belgium because I am an American.

[DFW]

12. I was in Belgium all day today (Thursday)

And spent the day doing just that (I speak French and Flemish)

[RoseMead]

8. In an administration full of fruit loops

he may well be the fruity loopiest of all.

PS: I apologize to innocent fruit loops everywhere.

[fooj]

9. What a bunch of sniveling cowards.

You mean he isn't hiding behind a bush today? F*cking loser.

[MasonJar]

10. On edit, methinks that Bush wants a right wing shill in Belgium, home of the

International Court.

[thecrow]

19. Don't you know? Smirky doesn't RECOGNIZE the court

Therefore, it is of no consequence.
:sarcasm:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. They blocked the appointment

because Fox showed bad judgment when, according to his own testimony, he simply gave money to an organization without checking out what they were doing. We don't need someone else in government using bad judgment--we have enough there already.

[babylonsister]

15. Not just 'an' organization, but the Swiftboat Liars. nt

[librechik]

13. oh, now they don't want the up or down vote

they want to sneak around and avoid a vote altogether.

The sliminess of these people always surprises me--hardly know why anymore...

[Cassandra]

14. Why does Cheney hate Belgium?

He would know Stalinist, wouldn't he.

[GrantDem]

16. Cheney is no longer relevent...

It is time that the media realize this.

He basically has one talking point -- Anything the Democrats do that the Bush cabal doesn't agree with (which is pretty much everything) "emboldens the enemy".

[tanyev]

17. "John Kerry basically shot it down."

At least he looked before he shot. Dick.

[gratuitous]

18. Bush pulled the nomination, then recess appointed him

I don't see where the Democrats are at fault here at, much less how they're "Stalinist."

Elections have consequences, boys. You don't control the gavels in the Senate anymore. Better come up with a new playbook, because Congress doesn't seem to be quite so supine anymore.

And I thought Rash Lardbutt was going to quit carrying the administration's water? Looks like that promise lasted about as long as his oxy high.