July 08, 2007 08:31 PM
Rep. Thelma Drake Runs Away From Iraq Question
Congressperson Thelma Drake (R-VA-02) takes her time to speak to a constituent over a tax issue, but when an IraqSummer participant asks if she'll stand with fellow Virginian John Warner on Iraq, look at how fast she moves to her car.
(h/t Paddy at Cliff's blog)
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DUDE!!!
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That ´´lady´´ moves faster then kathy harris when caught handing out bizz cards on the Sen floor last yr.
you run girl why you dont walk just run away from the real questions being asked. Another piece of poop in my de factor reupublican scrap book.
Iraq War
Regardless of the reasons why the United States chose to invade Iraq or even why a US presence remains there today, it is clear that the Bush Administration is putting too many of its resources—OUR resources— into remaining there. To date, the war has cost over $340 billion dollars—money which could have been spent much more wisely and with better end results. It is estimated, for example, that the expenditure of a mere $19 billion would eliminate starvation and malnutrition worldwide. In a time when the current defense budget is $522 billion, the goal of eradicating world hunger is clearly well within reach. Thus, it is clear that the occupation of Iraq needs to end, and it needs to end now without regard to what this will do to United States interest in Iraq’s oil. There are simply much more important issues that need to be addressed.
Drake's office has a HUGE integrity problem, back in February I was following this story about Drake's office turning off the lights in their office pretending they weren't there so they wouldn't have to answer questions and THEN calling the cops on the people while they waited for Drake's office to show up.
Damn, Drake cut and ran from that question faster than George Bush and Dick Cheney from combat duty in Vietnam!
Kudos to the questioner for being polite.
what is the deal with this whole "wait 'til September to find out what gen. Patraeus says" line that they all seem to know verbatim? They sound like little children waiting for santa or something
Another of our faithful public servants is concerned about corruption charges. I'll give you a hint, "he's not a truck, he's more a series of tubes.":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_go_co/stevens_investigation
Thelma!
Please send digital transmission, I eagerly await some semblence of creative intellectual fluff, and no peeking into your Rush/Bill/Ann coloring books for "inspiration" either ... fellow crypto-brainiacs and inter-dimensional entities will download and dump...."What a dump!"...hook pinkies over the Harmine hardlines.... put a crowbar in that glimmer of insanity you call a mind and pry open that rusty tuna can skull of yours....smells like tuna and smiles, I'm in lust....WTF?
Harmonic convergence? I steadfastly stand for disintegration of common psychic modes of knowledge and political stylings and for preventing the interested talking head from any forms of censorship. A powerful and timeless monument, threatening and cold like an iceberg pancake. A soundtrack for the coldness that real life can only create. Have you ever been this dark?
The Bush administration stands for distorted rhythms combined with horrific soundscapes, harshness and sheer force in repressed looney form, leading in an unforgettable experience, psychotic, cold and brutal salutations from the darkest cells of human psyche. Turn to your favorite media, turn on, and share the total noise-injection!
There is a certain class of political observer, albeit small, that have a remarkable and often bizarre preference for recreational psychic enjoyment. The "Harmine head" can often be found standing next to construction sites with their noggins cocked to the side, taking in the ambience that only heavy machinery and gross objectivism can provide while a thin stream of saliva escapes their lips. As they bob their heads to the disgusting sounds of a backhoe ripping up earth and concrete, mothers clutch their children and grown men cringe in fear and disgust.
Shes waiting for Patraeus to speak in September?
Patraeus spoke TODAY and he said it would take TEN YEARS!
Vote this clown out of office and take CNN off your TV.
Never Never read America blog. Its BS and quite sickening.
LOL!
If the ship isn't sinking, why is Sen. Warner in the lifeboat?!
I think she was running away from the first lady.
Sheesh learn how to operate a camera. This is not worth watching because the woman is not in the picture more than half the time.
So how many of our soldiers have to die before September?
Seriously, what is wrong with these guys? Why do they STILL support Bush??? They're immoral.
There is no objective TV media in the United States. Its propaganda, with some simply being more subtle than others. Watchout for the Blogs too;
America-Blog = CNN.
Another partisan war whore. They creep me out.
Salmineo @ 11:
Go one step further. Toss your TV in trash. It's nothing but a brain drain.
That was FEAR in action right there - that woman is SCARED of this president and his ilk.
And check out her car!!! my a lexus, which iam pretty sure isint the new one thats a hybrid either.
Had enough yet america? Because for americans living overseas,, we sure as hell are choking on the spin shit job the USA news broadcasts and the repigs ducking questions like dick cheney duckin 5 deferments .
I see a patteren forming here,, its called,, not being held accountable. GRILL more and more repigs with iraqsummer or another group. In a non violent manner i wish to add as well.
Lets just see who has the balls to answer questions that are on the minds of americans, without a political backdrop or a phoney press conferrance either.
The same can be applied for all in congress and senete i will add too. TIME TO FACE THE VOTERS who voted and are left now with,, ´´wheres my stuff and shit and stuff´´ !
oh and dont tell me you feel my pain, either congress. the only pain you know is that fact that you have to work 5 days a week now , and cut short your summer break.or have to limit your helicopter usage for personal reasons.
link
http://www.capitalnews9.com/shared/video/video_pop.asp?destlist=106504
Was she dancing the Political Polka there or the Moron Mamba ? Im confused. These GOPers must have workshops weekly to refresh their lying and spinning talents. Would be hilarious if the big picture of it was wasnt so fuckin sad.
What a scumbag.
Uh, I wouldn't call it 'running' away...
Sensationalism on our side just feeds it from the other side...
Take heed good folks from VA. You have one disgraceful chickenhawk representing you. Afraid to answer a question, too busy to interact with her constituents. This is what you get when you have someone represent you who has sold their soul to the devil....the chimp. I'd be ashamed if I lived in her district and had her representing me or anyone I know.
She wasn't running, but she was talking.
Give her a break, she hasn't committed yet..
what a BITCH !!!!! repugs gracious treatment of our veterans and troops.
let's push this BITCH out in the next election. she can eat dog poo.
you SUCK, Thelma!
Wow. She wouldn't even admit to having an opinion. What valor!
You people are nuts. She didn't run, she gave an answer and was quite polite about it. Admittedly, her answer was BS, but hey, she's a politician.
Thelma Drake = Snooty Power-Drunk Overprivileged Asshole
She can't even talk to a veteran, one of her constituents, about Iraq. No one can deny that she DID turn tail and run at the first mention of the Iraq war issue. She and other politicians live in constant fear of being ambushed by journalists or ending up on YouTube. My logic is that if she wasn't doing anything wrong, she wouldn't be so guarded. She knows that Iraq will be the cause of her political "death."
VOTE THIS WOMAN OUT OF OFFICE!!!
I love the deer-in-the-headlights look at the camera once the Iraq issue comes up, like she didn't notice it in the previous 30 seconds.
We are all waiting for the great god Petraeus to bless us with his September bullshit.
"i'll ask you to not film my car"...
why? do they think that IraqSummer is a terrorist group or something?
Blaed @ 33:
She doesn't want people to know that she can afford a lexus... "somehow."
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