Friday, November 18th, 2005...6:46 pm
Wow…My New Favorite
I’ve decided that my new favorite, well second favorite, congressman is Marion “That’s with an ‘E’” Berry from Arkansas. Here is his riposte to a snotty New Model Army Republican durring the floor debate on the cuts to social spending last night:
I’m absolutely amazed at you boys over there, I wonder what you are going to be when you grow up.
Berry went on to point out that it won’t be people of his generation, but the generation of the congressman he was responding to (he was 31) that will suffer from these cuts.
I usually am not into “ageist” attacks like this, but I really get steamed at the snottyness of many Republican elected officials of my generation. I’m glad that someone was willing to wipe the smug smiles off of their faces.
Something interesting here: Berry is one of the Blue Dogs. You know, those Democrats that Bush said that he would work with back when he ran in 2000. It’s been an undereported story, but Bush alienated these people in his first year of office. These guys have as much success working with the president as Dennis Kucinich does.
Another Blue Dog is Gene Taylor of Mississippi, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina. After a Republican attempt to gut Medicaid, supposedly to help Katrina victims, Taylor said:
This is the cruelest lie of all, that the only way you can help people who have lost everything is by hurting somebody else.
I’m not justifying all of the votes that the Blue Dogs make, but those of us that consider ourselves “progressives” ought to remember that many of these folks have their hearts in the right place.
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