No one’s ever accused Pete Stark of having any class, or of serving as an example for civil discourse in Congress. He’s lived up to his reputation today. During debate this morning, he accused Republicans of funding the war for the fun of seeing innocents die:
“But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.”
Seeing is believing:
This sort of vulgar personal attack is nothing new for Stark. In 2003, during a hearing of the Ways and Means Committee, Representative Scott McInnis (R-CO)–a former state trooper–asked Stark to be quiet during a reading of the bill. Stark responded:
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