Frist picks Cheney, Goss for Distinguished Service Awards

[kpete]

GOP House Speaker Frist picks Cheney, Goss for Distinguished Service Awards
RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday May 9, 2006

On Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. Capitol, Distinguished Service Awards will be bestowed upon Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA Director Porter hose Goss, two former House members selected by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), RAW STORY has found.

"The Congressional Distinguished Service Award was established to honor former Members of the House who have performed their duties on behalf of their constituents and the American people with such extraordinary distinction and selfless dedication as to merit special recognition," reads an invitation to the ceremony obtained by RAW STORY.

Porter Goss served as a Florida Congressman from 1989 until September of 2004, when he was tapped by President Bush to take over the CIA directorship. Cheney was formally a member of the House from Wyoming.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) nominated Jesuit Catholic priest, law professor, and former Massachusetts Congressman Father Robert Drinan and Ambassador Lindy Claiborne Boggs, who represented New Jersey for 18 years in the House and served as an ambassador to the Vatican.

The 2006 Distinguished Service Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/GOP_House_Speaker_Frist_picks_Cheney_0509.html

[joemurphy]

1. Perhaps we could get George Tenet to come out of retirement

and pin the medals on their lapels.

[babylonsister]

2. Frist=tool. What's going on with that SEC investigation, anyway? nt

[madmark]

3. well we all knew that goss was somehow going to get a medal

[joemurphy]

4. Let's give Frist an award too. The Marcus Welby

best medical diagnosis award for his services rendered in the Teri Schiavo fiasco.

[Berry Cool]

5. The Cat Fanciers' Society Trophy

for all his kindness to the little creatures when he was in med school.

[Roland99]

6. Damn, if I play poker and bang some hookers can I get one, too?!?!

[bklyncowgirl]

Why not the Congressional medal of Freedom?

It seems to be the thing they give you if you screw up in a really, really big way.

[rurallib]

7. Honor them before they go to jail

You didn't expect him to pick Conyers and Feingold did you?

[Cyrano]

8. What the hell. After a war criminal like Henry Kissenger got the

Nobel Peace Prize, all such prizes and awards became less than meaningless.

Although I agree with Nancy Pelosi's nominees, putting these people in a class with Cheney and Goss is about as insulting as one can get.

I don't know much about Lindy Claiborne Boggs, but I have followed much of Robert Drinan's career. If he has the class, style, dignity and values I think he has, he'll tell them, "No thanks."

[KC21304]

9. There are two embarrassing mistakes in this story.

Frist is not the Speaker of the House, Hastert is

Lindy Boggs represented Louisiana, not New Jersey.

The rest is very interesting.

[antonialee839]

10. Frist (R-Cat Killer) should also nominate

Tom DeLay (R-Slug), he's about to be a former member.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Maybe they'll install Dick's with a fire axe.

[DemoTex]

12. Raw Story? Sounds like Raw Onion to me.

Please tell me it is really 4/1. Un-fucking-believable! My B/P is tracking my B/S meter on this crap.

[Tony_Illinois]

14. Love the Meter !!

[Jack Rabbit]

13. This is satire, right?

:rofl:

[Kurt Remarque]

15. Lobbyist of the Year Award - Abramoff

[spuddonna]

16. kpete, this is a joke, right?!!

x( good grief...

[RagAss]

17. An award from Frist

isn't worth the "cheese" from under an elephant's balls !!!!

[leesa]

18. Cheney an architect of 9-11 and Goss his willing helper...hmmm.

[ToeBot]

19. What does Frist have to do with the House of Reps? eom

on edit: I see it was an error, nm