As many of you know,
New repub member, Jean Schmidt called rep Murtha a coward during todays house debate over the resolution to allow debate on the resolution to call for immediate troop withdrawal. she was forced to withdraw her remarks after democrats protested, but the venom in her tirade is poisonous to our democracy.
please contact her office and let your voice be heard.
yesterday, i diaried jean schmidts tirade against 1 billion muslims in the hunter press conference.
i am going to re diary these comments here, so that members here at kos can contact her office and give her an earful concerning what we think of her piercing antidemocratic rhethoric.
heres the contact info:
Washington, D.C. Office
238 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515-3502
(202) 225-3164
Cincinnati Office
8044 Montgomery Rd. Suite 540
Cincinnati, OH 45236
(513)791-0381
Portsmouth Office
601 Chillicothe St.
Portsmouth, OH 45662
(740)354-1440
From yesterday's diary:
In a rebuttal press conference to rep murthas call for troop withdrawal, numerous representatives spoke about their view of the iraq war.
The interesting thing at this conference was the underlying desperate underpinnings to this press conference. The faces told all the story.
Representative Jean Schmidt from ohio delivered a tirade consisting of branding islamic people as hateful and the exact remarks divulge such either incompetency, ignorance or just pure demagoguery.
Clearly they show such hate that i can not imagine how much hate these people hold in their hearts.
Heres her comments:
SCHMIDT: I'm Jean Schmidt.
I'm from the 2nd District in Ohio.
I'm the newest person on the block.
And this morning I spent time at the Arlington National Cemetery watching, witnessing, being part of a funeral of one of my fallen heroes in my district.
SCHMIDT: And I walked away from there seeing the glorious graves of the people that have fought for our freedom more resolved than ever to make sure we keep the enemy on their shore and not ours.
You know, you all are not getting the big picture.
The big picture is that these Islamic insurgents want to destroy us.
They don't like us.
They don't like us because we're black, we're white, we're Christian, we're Jew, we're educated, we're free, we're not Islamic.
We can never be Islamic because we were not born Islamic.
Now, this isn't the Islamic citizens. These are the insurgents. And it is their desire for us to leave so they can take over the whole Middle East and then take over the world.
And I didn't learn this just in the last few weeks or the last few months. I learned this when I was at the University of Cincinnati in 1970, studying Middle Eastern history. And I was told by a very valuable professor, one that I still remember, Wie Zuefabushi (ph). He was Palestinian.
He said, If we don't create freedom in that region it's going to come back and attack us. And this was during Vietnam, when everybody thought the issue was Vietnam. And he said, No, the issue is not Vietnam, it's the Middle East, it's Islamic insurgents that will come back and destroy us.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, 9/11 proved that they can come here and they can attack us.
We must continue the course, not just for the sake of the soldiers that have given their time, their talents and their lives to protect our freedom, but for ourselves and our children.
We are the best nation in the world, and it is incumbent upon us at all levels, whether we are soldiers, whether we are in Congress, or whether we are the press, to protect our freedom.
I'm doing it.
The soldiers are doing it.
I hope my Democratic colleagues will do it.
And I hope you will, too. Thank you