Cheney: Senate Committee Is ‘Stalinist’ For Blocking Swift Boat Funder’s Appointment

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Cheney: Senate Committee Is ‘Stalinist’ For Blocking Swift Boat Funder’s Appointment

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Yesterday, the White House bypassed the Senate and recess-appointed Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium. Fox contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that slanderously attacked Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) Vietnam War service.

Today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the Senate Judiciary Committee had deprived Fox of his “freedom of speech” because it would not confirm him “until he would go up to Kerry and apologize for supporting the Swift Boats.”

He added, “This is the kind of move that garners a lot of support from the people in the country. This shows the administration willing to engage these people and not allow them to get away with this kind of — well, my term — you don’t have to accept it — Stalinist behavior from these people on that committee.” Limbaugh’s guest, Vice President Cheney accepted the characterization, stating, “Well, you’re dead on, Rush.”

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Note to Cheney and Limbaugh: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin killed between 3 and 60 million people. There is no comparison between this man and the Senate’s opposition to Fox, who supported a group that slanders U.S. veterans.

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[Warren DeMontague]

1. Whereas, when the GOP blocks an appointment because someone is gay...

that's fine.

[ixion]

2. it amazes me how neocons can just blurt out any ol thing, and it is treated as credible

when it's obviously nothing more than a meaningless derogatory statement.

If a progressive ever happens to do the same thing, they are severely trounced for their statement.

the hypocrisy makes me ill. :-(

[shraby]

3. I sense a Keith commentary coming

before long. He doesn't like that kind of talk.

[ncteechur]

4. Who's Cheney? Is he still around? No one listens to that

windbag anymore--at least not anyone that counts.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I really hope that the officials in Belgium

. . . refuse to accept this jack ass' credentials.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

6. OH! GREAT!!! A NEO-FASCIST CALLING DEMOCRATS STALINISTS.

(where's the middle finger smilie when it's appropriate?)

Go fuck yourself, Cheney!!!

[HuffleClaw]

7. the fact that cheney would appear on rush's show is enough

to prove how low this administration routinely sinks. shameful.

[Sapere aude]

8. Two fat old blow asses talking and the freeper ditto head lick it up.