Hastert Lectures McCain on War, Sacrifice

WASHINGTON - Growing tensions between House and Senate Republicans over the war in Iraq (news - web sites), abuse of Iraqi prisoners, tax cuts and budget deficits erupted Wednesday with House Speaker Dennis Hastert lecturing former POW and Arizona Sen. John McCain about sacrifice and war.

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"Throughout our history, wartime has been a time of sacrifice. ... What have we sacrificed?" McCain said. "As mind-boggling as expanding Medicare has been, nothing tops my confusion for cutting taxes during wartime. I don't remember ever in the history of warfare when we cut taxes."

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Asked Wednesday about McCain's remarks, Hastert, who was rejected for military service because of a bad shoulder, first joked: "Who? Where's he from? A Republican?"


Then, more seriously, he said: "If you want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda (two Washington area military hospitals). There's the sacrifice in this country. We're trying to make sure that they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it. And at the same time, we have to react to keep this country strong not only militarily but economically. We want to be able to have the flexibility to do it. That's my reply to John McCain."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_go_co/hastert_mccain_2

no no no, sacrifice is for little people. the rest of us should just go about our daily business, only thinking about the war when Chimpy needs a boost in the polls.

hastert should be strung up by the GOP for this one. think he will?

Better that then his wallet? :shrug: I guess looking like an idiot is better then costing him any money?

4.08 out of 5 right now.

has got a stash of something.

to a POW

talking "sacrifice?" to McCain? I can't bend my mind enough to get it around that...

This cowardly Drew Carey look alike who hid under a slimy rock during Vietnam has the nerve to talk to McCain about sacrifice. Wasn't it his
President that wanted to cut veterans benefits, and cut combat/hazard duty pay for troops.

This f**k needs to go back to sucking off Delay, and getting it up the a** by Frist, the cat doctor. He needs to take his chicken hawk
a** and explain to those same troops why he wanted to cut their VA benefits.

On another thread someone was saying that all Republicans were not our enemies, well as long as they vote for pieces of offal like this they are.

The ones who are doing all of the sacrificing are the thousands sitting in hospitals and the hundreds laying in graves. Why are they the only ones making sacrifices? Why do millionaires get off without any sacrifice whatsoever? Hastert really cannot be that stupid!

his stupid extremist screaming. It is GOOD for America to witness such disgusting sickness.

ON,...ON,...Hastert!!!!

I support you as you isolate yourself and the rest of the extremist right-wing wackos from the rest of the common, good-hearted American people.

YOU GO, GUY!!!! :bounce:

just like Dan Quayle was Poppy's insurance against being dealt with as the founders intended.

I'm no big McCain fan, but how fricking dare Hastert say that to a POW who has the right position on this!! The tax cuts for the rich folks should be going to actually support the soldiers for flak jackets and re-armouring Hummers for example.

you can find the particulars here:

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Index-DailyReads-Antiwar-ChickenhawkDatabase.htm

Hastert, Dennis
US House (R- Ill.)
1942
Vietnam
bad knees
wrestling coach (huh?)

Bad knees or bad shoulder? Bet 'Stinky' Hastert can't even remember.

How big is this RW @sshole's armchair?

Hey Hastert!

...to sacrifice Bush, Chaney, Hastert, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rove etc. Network TV coverage of the sacrifice would be welcomed. How'd that be for reality TV?

on sacrifice ?????


Sheeesh, what an asshole.


:evilfrown:

so let's let the middle and lower class pay for it while the upper class gets the tax cut.

This pisses me off on how they dog McCain out. One of my teachers who is as liberal as fuck knows him and says beyond the politics he is a real decent guy. It's funny how the Republicans have a memember of their party who didn't run from military service unlike the rest of them and instead of praising him they dog him out most of the time.

Hastert should be one to talk about soliders making sacrafices... majority of tem are minorities and lower class kids. Does he have kids, and if so are they over there, and how about the rest of the rich folk's kids?

Off topic though.... I was at the club this past Friday night and met two guys from the Navy. Nothing but bad things about Bush from their mouths. They also said that was a constant theme on their base in regards to Bush.

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I lectured his aide's ass for 4 minutes, saying that not only do I find Hastert's remarks toward McCain unconscionable, I have not yet seen the Speaker at the army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where our severe casualties come in, nor have I seen our president, our vice president, our secretary of defense and our secretary of state there, ever. For that matter, I have not seen the above mentioned at the Wuerzburg Army Hospital, which has just opened a new ward to accommodate the casualties which Landstuhl cannot.

Bottom line to the Speaker: "Just...don't...talk."

Where was when his country called and he might actually have to pay the ULTIMATE sacrafice....oh...he didn't answer the call.

What is with Republicans and their disdain for veterns who don't follow their agenda? Jesus Christ, they're even attacking their own. (Not that I object to this, of course.)

Edit: To fix a typo.

that Hastert wants to help the troops to fight. How about helping them NOT to fight? I reminded the aide that the 1AD has been extended at least 4 months beyond their year deployment and that their R & R slots were recently cut 65%. If the Speaker wants to help the soldiers, he should start by devising an exit strategy. I also told him to read today's Stars and Stripes letters (not on-line yet).

This White House Gang

may bring down the repug congress with it.

what a marvelous dream.

Or just a veteran asshole?

are the best thing the Democratic party has going for it, the more their alligator mouths run, the more overloaded their hummingbird asses get. please do not interfere, they are imploding.

rich, privileged chickenhawks try to take credit for the sacrifices of the real patriots.

:grr:

I hope he chokes on the Kool Aid.

either that, or you're some sort of Dem operative in deep cover.

Man, I can't stop shaking my head over that particular bit of idiocy.

I think he needs to spend some time wounded in the Hanoi Hilton....THEN maybe he can talk about sacrifice.

What a worthless waste of oxygen......

(yes, some exist, although their politics are wrong) need somewhere to go. They need to start a new party.

No, don't say that folks like McCain should become Democrats -- that would only pull the Democratic Party further to the right. But the idea of that idiot Hastert lecturing McCain on military sacrifice! They're both supposed to be in the same party?

I read in 2000, when McCain was running for Prez, that he cannot raise his arms above his waist, because of torture.

And that he needs help with his shirt & tie.

Who votes for Hastert, DeLay & these other idiots?

McCain was a POW and has an Honorable Discharge but he is still a Republican Asshole. He votes for all these assholes and believes every bit of propaganda they put out. McCain is no friend of Democrats. Don't be fooled.

McCain is a true Republican.

& he speaks out about it. {tax cuts}

That is why they hate him, & why Hastert criticized him.

Jesus christ.

Hastert lectures McCain about Walter Reed hospital.

I think I've seen just about everything now.

take on this spat between Dennis "40 Year Old Making Youthful Indiscretion" Hastert. This could be John McCain's way of saying "I'm not leaving the Republican Party, but the Republican Party is leaving me." It is true though, the Democratic Party is the party of economic responsibility, and John McCain might be the most anti-useless spending man in both houses of Congress.

You gotta love these idiots.
Republican blowhards provide most of my daytime entertainment.

How insulting to a real soldier like Sen. McCain! :grr:

I'm a liberal Democrat and therefore I disagree with John McCain on many issues. However, I don't think I can admire someone more. This guy votes his conscience every single time, never plays politics and never kisses up to the Republican leadership.

... why doesn't he leave, for god's sake.

:shrug:

World-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti received a lesson in music theory from American Idol reject William Hung.


WTF??? :mad:

Keep it up, amigos! Your ship is sinking. Now we'll see their true character.

Quick! Somebody step on em before he scuttles back under the House floorboards!