October 7, 2002
COURT JESTER:
McDermott accuses Bush of plotting to be emperor (David Postman, October 07, 2002, Seattle Times)U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott broadened his attack on George W. Bush's war plans yesterday, saying the president is threatening military action in Iraq as part of a plot to crown himself emperor of America.Criticized for saying on a trip to Iraq early last week that Bush would mislead the American public, McDermott, a Seattle Democrat, was back in his district yesterday telling cheering supporters that Bush is planning a war to distract voters' attention from domestic problems.
He said Bush is trying to "submarine" efforts to restart weapons inspections in Iraq to give him a pretext for starting a war — a war McDermott said is being planned in part to bolster U.S. oil interests.
"And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not," McDermott said at a town-hall meeting at the Jefferson Park Community Center on Beacon Hill. The event was sponsored by local Democrats and other groups in his congressional district.
This imbecile isn't a traitor to his country, it's his party he's betraying. Every time he opens his mouth he helps the President and kills the Democrats. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 7, 2002 10:37 AM
It appears to me that an opportunity is nearing for Republicans (by proxy) to engage in a little tarring of the Democrats with the McDermott brush, as happened to them a'la Gingrich. Given the source of the split apparently opening in the Democrats in regard to the war, such an endeavor also has the virtue of being based in reality, which was not the case with Gingrich.
Posted by: Jim H at October 7, 2002 2:20 PM