"Dances With Roaches" And His Big Texan Mouth

Get to know the lowest, sleeziest scumbag in the Republican cesspool.
Perhaps, an equal to Rove. Naturally, such a low-life bastard was made
majority leader. Armey and Grahm (both ignorant Texas road apples,)
don't hold a candle to this draft dodging piece of s__t.
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Senators wage war of words over DeLay
barbs

Kennedy served in military; House GOP leader didn't

Friday, August 1, 2003 Posted: 6:31 PM EDT (2231 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- "I certainly don't
want to see Teddy Kennedy in a Navy
flight suit."

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay used that
image in a speech last week as he accused
Democrats of a lack of leadership on national
security. His joke at the expense of Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, touched off a
verbal war Friday.

"To try to gauge just how out of touch the
Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just
close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy
landing that Navy jet on the deck of that
aircraft carrier," DeLay, R-Texas, told a group
of college Republicans. "I don't know about you,
I certainly don't want to see Teddy Kennedy in a
Navy flight suit anytime soon."

DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella called it
"tongue-in-cheek" humor, but Democrats came
to Kennedy's defense.

Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, a
Democrat and a Vietnam veteran who lost a
bitter re-election race in 2002, dashed off a
letter to DeLay calling the comments
"reprehensible" and finishing up with his own
barb: "This country deserves more patriots like
Senator Kennedy, not more chicken hawks like
you who never served."

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, also a
Democrat and Vietnam veteran, chastised
DeLay in a letter Friday for his "tasteless and
unnecessary smear of Senator Kennedy." The
remark's tone, he said, seemed to question
Kennedy's military service record.

Kennedy served in the Army. DeLay did not
serve in the military.

Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said
the incident was "another missed opportunity for DeLay to set a good example in front of an
audience of young people rather than promote the politics of personal destruction."

While criticizing the Democrats for failing to see the humor in DeLay's remarks, Grella said there is
a serious issue involved.

"The Democratic party has a lot to answer for in terms of their decimating our intelligence and not
being there for our military and our national defense," he said. The military veterans in Congress,
he said, don't have exclusive rights to opinions on national security.