OBEY: That's the problem! That's the problem! The liberal groups are jumping around without knowing what the h*** is in the bill! You don't have to cut off funds for an activity that is no longer legal. We're shutting it off.
Second man in hallway interrupts: Congressman, what about the Church Amendment that helped end the Vietnam War in, what was it, '72-'73.
OBEY: It took us 31 different efforts to get there. I was here for that!
Man: Didn't that help end the ground war in Vietnam?
OBEY: No, it didn't. The political pressure on the administration finally ended the war. The amendment that finally ended the funding was the [unintelligible] amendment. I was the sponsor of that--
Man: But if you pass a resolution, isn't he still the commander-in-chief?
OBEY: (Gesturing wildly again) WE DON'T HAVE THE VOTES TO PASS IT! WE COULDN'T EVEN GET THE VOTES TO PASS A NON-BINDING RESOLUTION ONE WEEK AGO! How the h*** do you think we're gonna get the votes to cut off the war?!
"It's good to get acquainted with God now so that at the end of time you won't be embarrassed in His presence"--A.W. Tozer
09 March 2007
Side-splitting laughter, Democratic style!
Over at Michelle Malkin's site, she has a video with transcript of democrats eating their own. The argument is between Appropriations Chairman David Obey (Oh-bee) and a couple of left-wingers from something called "Occupation Project", whatever that is. They're a bunch of people, with nothing better to do than sit around thinking of ways to be obnoxious in public. But this much I do know: When presented with facts, they just don't know how to cope: