Quote of the day - Sister Toldjah

A true outrage:

“I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you.”

That was Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA-10), also an Obama superdelegate, responding to the VP’s Chief of Staff David Addington’s comment during a House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearing yesterday that he wouldn’t go into details about waterboarding because AQ “may watch C-SPAN.”

RedState is rightly outraged:

Mr. Delahunt now denies he meant what he said. But what he clearly said was “I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you.” Al Qaeda now knows the face of one of the men who relentlessly pursues its henchmen and deals with their interrogations. Mr. Addington volunteered for public service, not a death sentence with Congressional encouragement. Mr. Delahunt is both a vile liar and a cowardly lion willing to roar down at Mr. Addington while encouraging terrorists to do his dirty work in a war he has been ineffective at stopping.

The left, while attacking Charlie Black for stating the obvious — that a terrorist incident helps the GOP politically because they are seen as more competent in the national security arena — is defending this degradation of congressional discourse and vile swipe at Mr. Addington.

This discourse — a member of Congress glad Al Qaeda has a face it can pursue — is beneath the dignity of the Congress and beneath the dignity of civil discourse in this country.

If you do not call your Congressman today and demand the House of Representatives, at the very *least*, censure Congressman Delahunt, well damn us all. We have no right to carry on our fight.

The number is 202-224-3121 and Congressman Delahunt’s email address is william.delahunt@mail.house.gov.

And some intrepid reporter should ask Mr. Obama what he thinks of this. After all, Mr. Delahunt was one of Mr. Obama’s early supporters and is now an Obama superdelegate. Of course, you can ask Barack Obama yourself at (866) 675-2008.

James Joyner has an excellent recap of what took place yesterday between Addington and the House Subcommittee. John Hinderaker at Power Line has a write-up on the farcical “hearing” as well. Make sure to read them both.

Chowda says:

June 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm

He just talked to Levin for the last seconds of the show and stated he misspoke (cough), he meant to say he was glad to see him (doesn’t work), he even talked to him and shook hands later. Someone should ask Addington.

Leslie says:

June 28, 2008 at 8:45 am

Delahaunt is an idiot, and so is Addington. The Marx Brothers governed Freedonia better.

Steve Skubinna says:

June 28, 2008 at 12:52 pm

This is akin to John Kerry’s “stuck in Iraq” statement, where a politician inadvertently says what he’s thinking and then grabs the first excuse that comes to mind, no matter how lame.

“Uh, I was making a point about how stupid Bush is, even though he did get better grades than I did, so here I am invalidating the point of my earlier statement… darn.”

It reminds me of the story where one man asks another, “Have you ever made one of those Freudian slips?”

“Oh yeah,” says the second, “I did one last week I’m still paying for. It was at breakfast, and I meant to say ‘Darling, would you pass the marmalade?’ but the way it came out was ‘You stupid b*tch, you’ve f*cked up my life!'”

NC Cop says:

June 28, 2008 at 12:56 pm

One can only imagine what would have been the reaction from the dems and their slaves in the media had a conservative/Republican done something like this.

Absolutely treasonous.

June 28, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Except, NC Cop, I have never heard a conservative or Republican wish for a terrorist attack on a political opponent. They seem to have this bizarre belief that an attack on one is an attack on all of us.

On the other hand, contrast that with Michael Moore’s lament on 9/12 that the terrorists murdered the wrong people, if they were angry at Bush’s election. Just the way the lefty mindset works. Fortunately for all of us, lefties are for the most part as cowardly as they are spiteful, and very few would actually take direct action against a political opponent. Hence we’ll only get wishful thinking like this.

To tie this in with Heller, note all of the angry lefties desiring to shoot all of us who own firearms. With guns they don’t have. Further, if their stereotypes of us were at all true, doesn’t it occur to them that they’d have all been shot themselves long ago? Lefties are very good at projection – they assume everyone else has the same rages and hatreds they do, which is why they always express fear of their fellow citizens.