newt.org: Gingrich calls for censure of Durbin

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

In a letter sent to United States Senators on Saturday, June 18, 2005, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on the Senate to censure Senator Richard Durbin for his speech comparing U.S. servicemen serving in Guantanamo Bay to those of the Nazi Gestapo, Soviet KGB, and Pol Pot's killers in Cambodia.


"Senator Richard Durbin has dishonored the United States and the entire U.S. Senate. Only by a vote to censure Senator Durbin for his conduct can the U.S. Senate restore its dignity and defend American honor," Gingrich wrote.


He added, "It's one thing for one Senator to endanger young Americans and defame America; it would the shame of the Senate if the other 99 Senators did not stand up to defend America and to defend the reputation of our young men and women in uniform."


Gingrich called Senator Durbin's comparison "despicable."

http://tinyurl.com/a8sly

[Jacobin]

1. Does this silly little serial adulterer still think he's gonna run for

president?

What an asshat.

[Maestro]

2. This coming from such an ethical individual like

himself must hold some weight. :sarcasm: What really is despicable are the actions that Newty boy took while in office.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. From the mouth of one of the top Nazis in the NeoCon brain-trust....

...Durbin definitely put a hitch in their goose-step!

[MaineDem]

4. Did he actually hear what Durbin said???

It wasn't anything like people are blowing it up to be.

Sheesh! And Newt of all people...

[jedr]

5. I didn't give them hell; I told them the truth,

and they thought it was hell"....Harry Truman

[Cooley Hurd]

6. What I find despicable is a man who abandons his cancer-stricken...

...wife. THAT'S the bottom of the barrel!!!:thumbsdown:

[Clark2008]

29. TWICE he did this.

The first wife was battling another illness when he left her, too.

I just read it in David Brock's book.

[TwentyFive]

7. Hay Newt - Senator Durbin is more PATRIOT than you will ever hope to know!

Newt is clueless that disent is the highest form of patriotism. The facts speak for themselves, and I believe that history will judge Senator Durbin as one of the brave patriots during America's Dark Hours.

[napi21]

8. Well, knock yourself out Newt! Ya know, I had a newt in a fish tank

a long time ago. He was a cute little thing, but pretty stupid! He kept crawling out of the tank, and I kept putting him back. One day, I didn't find him in time, and he died, shriveled up, and was sucked up in the sweeper!

Suppose we can hope that happens to the Newt from Ga? (Yea, I live in Ga. Sorry few people around here listen to me!)

[bunkerbuster1]

33. Fellow Georgian here. Run, Newtie, Run!

Oh, please be the Reep nominee! it would be such a pleasure to watch you fail miserably once again.

[longship]

9. Who the F*** is Gingrich?

He has no standing for that request.

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Torture is despicable

Senator Durbin's point is that to engage in this behavior is unacceptable for American soldiers under any circumstances. And Senator Durbin is right.

Senator Durbin owes no one an apology and it is absurd to suggest that he be censured.

If Mr. Gingrich is defending torture, then he owes Americans an apology.

[ananda]

11. What about Cheney and Santorum?

Didn't Santorum compare Dems to Nazi's?
Didn't Cheney use the fu against Dems?

I know there are other good examples.

Why aren't they being censured?

Sue

[Ksec]

16. exactly. hypocrits r us

[Vickers]

12. Tricky Dick Cheney sez: "Hey Newt, go fuck yourself!"

How's THAT for honor on the Senate floor? :eyes:

[illini]

13. Take the time to tell Durbin how you feel.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3890439&mesg_id=3890439

[Somawas]

19. I sent Senator Durbin

a note of thanks yesterday.

[Raiden]

14. Thanks to Dean, Durbin, Conyers, Boxer, Reid

and others, the Repigs finally realize that the Democrats are finished with apologetically backing down to them. Clearly they are scared. Dean has injected some backbone into the Democratic Party and we aren't backing down anymore... YEEEEAAAARGGH!!!!!!!!!

[Frederik]

15. I'm sure Newty would volunteer

to lie in his feces and urine for a week or two, as long as he got to choose between two types of fruit when it was over.

[Burried News]

17. If Nuremberg Trials Ever Come to America

The role you played should be in the proceedings Newt.

You want to censure? Censure Senator Warner. If he had done his job as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Durbin wouldn't be speaking now. Where is the follow up to the Taguba Report? Warner was going to get to the bottom of Abu Ghraib? Warner is concerned about the effect of Durbin's remarks on the insurgents and putting our troops at increased risk? Horsefeathers. The Iraqi's know what's going on - some prisoners and photos have gotten out of Abu Ghraib. You guys are hidding behind our troops.

Even the Washington Post has asked in an editorial when Warner is going to do his job? Now that Washington has become Chicago (tap tap tap) Durbin should have walked over to Warner and done an Al Capone on him.

The issue isn't semantics, sensitivity, Senate protocol, or rhetoric that will energize an enemy. The issue is a public that is absolutely positively fed up with the lies, deceit, obstructionism, manipulation, bullying and character assassination that has become the fundamental philosophy of the Republican Party.

And another thing, what the hell is the ADL doing coming down on Durbin?

[Burried News]

21. The Thought Police - Who Owns World War 2?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424349/posts
"However heated the debate over issues of the day, we would urge you to refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

25. Who supplies the initial heat?

I submit our repuke overlords, by allowing torture to be used.

Sometimes, the truth must be spoken, as an old scottish friend was wont to say.

[CBHagman]

28. That's precisely the point. Torture as a policy...

I frankly do not recognize my country anymore. The current administration has taken the view that the president is above the law or outside the law (yes, really), thus granting him powers that do not exist in the Constitution.

And Bush, according to Bob Woodward, feels that he does not owe anybody an explanation. Do taxpayers realize that this clown thinks he's beyond accountability?

And we wouldn't be having conversations about what Durbin said if actual abuse and torture hadn't taken place.

The administration has made us far LESS SAFE, thanks to its policies, for the rest of the world isn't sitting around nodding in agreement with, say, Hannity or O'Reilly. We are creating enemies and possible decades of trouble from this, mark my words. The arrogance, incompetence, immorality, and short-sightedness of the current administration have created a nightmare scenario in terms of national security and long-term foreign policy. It's time to sweep clean, to make government accountable again.

And the press sure as hell better get its act in gear. This is a very dangerous situation, and they're not turning up the pressure on the corrupt administration.

[tanyev]

18. Durbin needs to give the Cheney apology:

"I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," Cheney told Neil Cavuto of Fox News. "I think that a lot of my colleagues felt that what I had said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue."
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/002017.html

[struggle4progress]

20. Gingrich should get down naked on all fours and bark for us. eom

[BrklynLiberal]

22. ROTFLMAO!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Although the thought of it makes me want to :puke: :puke:

[davidinalameda]

24. that's just wrong

funny as hell but wrong

[struggle4progress]

30. I don't advocate forcing him to do this -- but if he wants to say ..

.. there's no problem, he should have the moral courage to show us that he personally doesn't find this degrading ..

[4_Legs_Good]

23. Give me a f*cking break

what a dipshit!

david

[shraby]

26. Hey Salamander, what about Sensenbrenner??????

[longship]

27. Here's to Newt!

The Pie-of-Hypocrisy!

[LightningFlash]

31. The guy's nuts, not even sane republicans should dare support him.

Listen to this bull about Senator Durbin being "censured" or "censored".

He just told it like it is, the torture in that prison was AGAINST the law!!!!!

Wow, this is just disturbing. Everyone mass-fax his offices remember who backed up his statements. Wasn't ginggrinch!

[dogday]

32. Ah The Republican Deflection Machine--Pay No Attention To

the former Speaker Of The House behind the curtain. It is only the Republicans trying to take the spotlight off DSM.... Spread the word DSM is the truth......

[mopaul]

34. fuck you newt, go home and toss off

[BiggJawn]

35. Is he on wife #6 or 7? I can't remember....

Mr. Speaker, allow me to extend a most hearty and heartfelt invitation to you to GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Fuck you, Gingrich! you think we've forgotten your bullshit "Contract *ON* America" haven't you? Go slither back under your rock like your amphib namesake, assclown!