Rep. Shadegg to Bloomberg on House floor-"How would you feel if YOUR child was kidnapped by a terror

[jenmito]

ist? What if a clerk's child was kidnapped by a terrorist?" This was in response to Bloomberg saying it's a good idea to try KSM in NYC. So Shadegg is using scare tactics, claiming KSM or the other detainees could get loose and kidnap someone in NYC. These scare tactics are getting more and more ridiculous. Shadegg will be interviewed on MSNBC coming up.

[Cha]

1. That's all repubs have is fear..they're selling and

I ain't buying.

Who's Bloomberg on the House Floor?

[jenmito]

5. Mayor Bloomberg of NY.

I guess I worded it poorly. :D

[Cha]

8. No, I just didn't understand

..I thought he was talking to a Bloomberg in the House not calling him out from the Floor.

I get it now. Jeeze, wasn't he the one who brought the live baby prop to scare off the Democratic Health Reform Bill?

[jenmito]

10. OK...

and yup, he IS the one who used a staffer's baby as a prop.

[phantom power]

2. On behalf of AZ, I'm sorry.

I'm so, so sorry.

:banghead:

[jenmito]

6. Well, I'm sure

you had nothing to do with it.

[alstephenson]

7. Me too. What a pathetic excuse for a legislator.

Unfortunately Shadegg is my Congressman...

[jberryhill]

3. What is with these idiots?

Organized crime trials are held all of the time, and the members of those gangs travel more freely among us than the associates of various suspects plucked from half a world away.

[high density]

4. What if the child was kidnapped by a child molester?

Are we going to send all child molesters to Guantanamo too, to never be heard from again?

[jenmito]

9. Not if they're not Muslim...

and of course, there's probably a million % greater chance that a child molester would kidnap someone's child in NY than a terrorist who's being tried there.

[frazzled]

11. And then you crossed the International Dateline

George Carlin had it way back when.

[Cha]

12. The DCCC responds..Cross Post from GD..

DearAbby (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-17-09 04:07 PM
Original message

"DCCC slams Shadegg for suggesting Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped"

"Washington(CNN) - A spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee criticized a Republican congressman Tuesday for suggesting that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped by terrorists, calling it evidence that the GOP has been taken over by "Right Wing extremists."

"In case there's any doubt of the Republican Party being taken over by the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann and other Right Wing extremists, last night Republican Rep. John Shadegg actually suggested that Mayor Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped by a terrorist," DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer said in a statement.

"This is what happens when you have a Republican Party undeterred by their embarrassing loss in the NY-23 Special Election and desperate to win over the Right Wing fringe," he added.

On the House floor on Monday night, Shadegg criticized Bloomberg for supporting the Obama administration's decision to have the suspected 9/11 terrorists face a trial in New York City. Bloomberg said last week that it's "fitting" to have them tried close to the World Trade Center site and that the city has "hosted terrorism trials before," but Shadegg warned of other repercussions.


"I saw the Mayor of New York said today, 'We're tough. We can do it,'" Shadegg said. "Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it's your daughter that's kidnapped at school by a terrorist? How are you going to feel when it's some clerk - some innocent clerk of the court - whose daughter or son is kidnapped? Or the jailer's little brother or little sister? This is political correctness run amok."

Bloomberg's office said Tuesday it would not comment on the remark.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7034606

[jenmito]

14. Thanks, Cha. Shadegg was suppoed to be on MSNBC now but he "couldn't make it"

because he was "called into a meeting." Hmmm...

[Cha]

16. Too bad..he says something heniously outrageous

to get called on tv and then can't make it?..oooops.

[jenmito]

18. Yup...

maybe he's getting reprimanded. :D

[Thrill]

13. These fools think the show 24 is real life.

[alsame]

15. Whatever happened to

all the bravado of the GOP? Remember "Bring it on"?

Now they're afraid to have trials in the US...what kind of message does it send to the world that we're too afraid of terrorists to try them in our justice system?

[jenmito]

17. Their hatred of Obama trumps it...

they'd rather see Obama fail than do ANYTHING Obama/his admin. want to do.

[alsame]

19. Yes, and successful trials will just prove how wrong they were

for holding detainees in Gitmo for 8 years.

[Cha]

20. That's the

Big OOOOOPS.

[jenmito]

21. Yup...

They're losers.