DeLay on Democrats: "No ideas. No leadership. No agenda. No class."

The House majority leader's supporters — among them a dozen conservative organizations — staged a high-profile show of support by throwing a $250-a-plate gala in his honor Thursday night that brought roughly 900 people to the Capital Hilton.

When the Texas Republican took the stage after other speakers had hailed him for his leadership in the Republican Party and the House, he made only a passing reference to the problems that have sparked calls for an ethics probe, joking that one speaker's anecdote had tipped reporters off to another foreign trip he took.

Instead, DeLay told the crowd that as Republicans helped Americans find jobs and helped the country recover from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Democrats offered the country nothing.

"No ideas. No leadership. No agenda. And, just in the last week, we can now add to that list, no class," DeLay said in a reference to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid's remark to school children that President Bush was "a loser." Reid later apologized to Bush adviser Karl Rove.

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Delay is a dog

Unfortunately, a lot of the time, our response is "well, we have great ideas, just check our website..." and, people are too lazy to check it out and the meme starts to sink in.

I don't like to threaten the lives of judges.

Oh, I almost forgot... I also have a brain. That automatically disqualifies me. Sorry.

He reminds me of a little child; you call names, now it's my turn.:puke:

define your own morals, and well, have no class.
And if Reid called Bush a 'loser'- he shouldn't have apologized to Rove, of all people.

No Social Security,
No Pensions,
No wars based on facts,
No benefits for our veterans
No education funding
No environmental protections
No bankruptcy protections for the poor and middle class
No stopping rouge countries from getting nukes
No minority party rights
No Constitution
No CAFE standards that would end our need for Saudi oil

WHO IS THE PARTY OF NO again???

"Republicans helped Americans find jobs and helped the country recover from the Sept. 11, 2001"...

:evilgrin:

<snip>
Background: Goebbels was not a particularly deep thinker, but he was quick. He wrote or dictated a great deal, and could churn out his weekly articles in as little as 15 minutes, if pressed for time. This is a translation of the forward to his first book of wartime essays. The author is Hans Schwarz von Berk, one of Goebbels' aides. It naturally gives a more than flattering portrait of the propaganda minister.

The source: Die Zeit ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), a collection of Goebbels' speeches and writings from January 1939 to September 1941.

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On the Art of Speaking to the World

by Hans Schwarz von Berk

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In the minister's office there is a long map table in front of the window facing the Wilhelmplatz. Some maps are of the sort on which General Staff officers measure with their compasses and sketch their plans. There are others that belong to a chapter of the war that is unequaled in the history of warfare.

One map shows the radio transmitters that have been conquered in Europe. Another shows on numerous pages the movements and locations of the propaganda companies. A world map shows the zones reached by shortwave transmissions in many languages. Still another shows the movements and performances of front theater companies. Another compares the cities in England and Germany that have been bombed. Whenever Dr. Goebbels meets with officers, war reporters, editors, radio people and artists around the table, the ways the war has mobilized the spirit and the soul become evident.

Once or twice each week the room is empty, and Dr. Goebbels wanders around the table. He dictates an article or a speech. This is in the middle of the day's work, and often happens so quickly that those in the waiting room are surprised when the stenographer leaves after only fifteen minutes. There have been days of such high tension and concentration that he has dictated a three column article in twelve minutes. But that is not the rule. When Dr. Goebbels polemicizes, he does so in a way few others can equal. He dictates sharp and pointed phrases, as well as ones that are elegant and powerful. He needs no long preparation. As a revolutionary, he is at ease with all forms of political eloquence. As a result, most of these articles read as if they had just been spoken. His essays that treat the great problems of the day or have a particular foreign policy aim, are different. Such pieces are written with the requisite thoroughness. Files and evidence are gathered, quotations checked against the original, quotations from Eden or Roosevelt or Pitman or Ickes are double-checked. When a manuscript has been worked over numerous times it may be set aside for a week or longer, after which every word is once more weighed. A war cannot be won by temperament alone, even temperament as great as Dr. Goebbels has. Few know that he follows a stringent daily plan. He begins each day with the diary he has kept since 1920, and ends late in the night with a preview of the footage for the next newsreel, 3,000 copies of which will go out to all the world.

<and>
In one of his essays on Churchill, Dr. Goebbels characterized him as a gambler who each time hopes his luck will improve, while all the while he is gambling away his whole empire. The Führer and Mr. Churchill differ most clearly in their relationship to luck. This theme appears regularly, always in the only way that corresponds to our way of thinking. As Moltke put it, in the long run only those are lucky who deserve to be. Miracles and luck will not decide this war. Victory will depend on the achievements of our people, on our weapons and on the resoluteness of our hearts, against which all the words of the enemy are in vain. In a language that the educated and the uneducated can understand, Dr. Goebbels has expressed the war doctrine of a young socialist people, a people that knows that everything that happens follows a higher necessity. That is the essence of the war. No hope or waiting, no renunciation or obligation is in vain. Nothing unnecessary is asked of us, no drop of blood is shed for reasons of prestige. Everything follows a secret plan in the hands of the Führer. This sum of these essays and speeches makes clear the logic of the war. It depends on a consciousness of German security and superiority. Our whole thinking in this war is contained in this one sentence: "Germany has always been as strong as it is today, but never knew it."

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<link> http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb14.htm



....and of course George W.Bush

<Snip from a Jan 30, 2005 post>

In his scary inaugural speech this week--sort of a twisted and oral mish
mash of bits and pieces from Mein Kampf, the Communist Manifesto, the
Bible, 1984, Animal Farm and Alice in Wonderland--Emperor Bush told the
world of his divine mission of world domination. He didn't call it that,
of course, but when we consider what Bush has done in Iraq and the noises
he's making about Iran, how else can we interpret lines such as "All who
lie in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not
ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for
your liberty, we will stand with you," and, "So it is the policy of the
United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and
institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending
tyranny in our world"?

Of course, Bush's goal of imposing his will on other nations is mostly
playing out as an attempt to force all Arab and Muslim nations into
Americanizing and accepting an American style democracy. This means that
they must have bland, inoffensive, plain wrap values in all things and
pretend that the manipulated masses are running things. Those nations that
scurry and conform will be left untouched. You can tell the ones that are
on board, because they usually have leaders set up and paid by the U.S.
and these leaders ape the U.S. in dress and most other things. Bush will
allow these nations to remain Islamic, but their brand of Islam will have
to be to that faith, what a non-denominational, do your own thing, hippie
church in the U.S. is to Christianity.

The Bushies are all about double standards. Even though they talk about
North Korea as being evil, don't count on them attacking that nation.
It's not near Israel. Instead, watch as the Bushies attack Arab and
Muslim nations near Israel.

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<link> http://www.newnation.org/Millard/Be-free-or-die.html

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a Parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every countert"

Hermann Goering. Hitler's Reich-Marshall
at the Nerenberg Trials after WWII

Pound sand Delay

I can dream, can't I?

I'm happy to say No to republican bullshit.


Grownups are supposed to say No when children act up.

putz

If you can watch it, it's worth it to catch DeLay's speech. I have another thread going on this topic--primarily about what happened when DeLay mentioned Howard Dean.

The fun is just beginning.

NGU.

they and everyone knows the meaning behind the jokes....

No - is reference to SS - they asked for the Dems to come up with a plan...the Dems said just strengthen, protect, and act on the extension of it...nothing needed here.

IT WAS AN HONORABLE NO!

They are children who are demonizing - for now - because their conscious went on a collective fall to the bottom of a pit.

They do not even klnow the meaning of the word humble. Both Delay and Bush* have said that is how they must be. words words words only words. When you have zero respect for anything at all you can say whatever you wish and suffer no accountability. Humble ya right..

piece of vermin that ever darken the chambers of Congress.. has to say?
You aren't good enough to shine the shoes of DEMOCRATS!

So scuttle away before you get stepped on.