Dem Congressman Rips Washington Post For Helping Land Us In "Stupid, Ill-Advised War"

[babylonsister]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/03/dem_rep_obey_ri.php

Dem Congressman Rips Washington Post For Helping Land Us In "Stupid, Ill-Advised War"
March 23, 2007 -- 11:58

Oh, man -- this is really a great one. This morning The Washington Post published the latest in a string of dishonest, misleading editorials about the House Dems' Iraq bill.

Today, on the floor of the House of Representatives during debate over the bill, Dem Rep. David Obey tore into the Post devastatingly hard, making the case that we shouldn't be listening to the Post about the bill now given how disastrously wrong their cheerleading for the war has turned out to be. Obey blamed the paper's editorial page for everything from spewing Republican talking points to being partly responsible for getting us stuck in Iraq, and when he was done, all that was left was a pile of shredded Hiatt.

View it at link:

Here's a partial transcript:

Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn't listen enough to people like The Washington Post. It's that we listened too much. They endorsed going to war in the first place. They helped drive the drumbeat that drove almost two-thirds of the people in this chamber to vote for that misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised war that has destroyed our influence over a third of the world. So I make no apology if the moral sensibilities of some people on this floor, or the editorial writers of The Washington Post, are offended because they don't like the specific language contained in our benchmarks or in our timelines.

What matters in the end is not what the specific language is. What matters is whether or not we produce a product today that puts pressure on this Administration and sends a message to Iraq, to the Iraqi politicians that we're going to end the permanent long-term dead end babysitting service. That's what we're trying to do. And if The Washington Post is offended about the way we do it, that's just too bad.

That must have felt pretty good. It's about time someone did this.

[yellowcanine]

1. Yep, there are even more aholes than usual at the WP editorial board today.

Obey ripped several new ones.

[waiting for hope]

2. We need more like him:

"long-term dead end babysitting service"....great line.

[aquart]

3. "...permanent long-term dead end babysitting service."

Who is this man? I like him.