Lib Congressman Compares Current Dangers as US Rep to Iraq War
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 3, 2010, 12:30 AM
It’s a war out there.
Lib Rep. John Boccieri compared the dangers of being a liberal pro-Obamacare Congressman to the dangers of serving in the Iraq War.
Really. He said that… This is not a joke.
Via his Boccieri.com webpage:
In light of recent threats made to Members of Congress, their families, and staff in the wake of the health care vote, U.S. Congressman John Boccieri (D-OH) issued the following statement:
“Having flown missions in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan, I know what it’s like to be in harm’s way. But I never imagined serving in Congress could feel the same. While Members of Congress, including myself, experience threats against our lives, our families, and our staff in the wake of the historic health care vote, I am calling on our leaders to be responsible with their remarks, especially those with a national microphone.
“We need to have a respectful conversation about contemporary issues, however once that discussion crosses into incendiary and dangerous remarks, it is time for Members of Congress to speak up.
“As passions run deep, violence will never solve our problems. I demand responsible leadership on both sides of the aisle because progress should not cower to the politics of fear.”
He’s more afraid of the American people after voting for Obamacare than the terrorists in Iraq?
That’s a pretty sad statement.
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jonyjoe101 commented:
Why would a liberal ever join the military? doesn’t make sense to me.
If he’s afraid of his constituents he needs to find another job. Maybe “dogwalker” or something more safe.
Like Truman said, “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”. He collects that $100,000 plus paycheck every year (plus bribes), he needs to take the good with the bad.
richwill commented:
I want to see some proof of the threats to libs. The outcry has increased since the walk by the representatives in front of the tea party participants. I truly believe this is to excoriate the GOP and give the libs cause celebre for the mid-term elections. The libs have learned their lessons well from the left wing radicals and the communist party. Personally, they deserve what they get, they voted against the will of the people.
Rock commented:
He’s a wimp – period. Here’s a guy who was undecided – and then on the day of the vote let out a bunch of vitrioul towards the other side as he voted for a ridiculous bill.
that means he’s a liar, duplicitous, or just plain stupid.
I can tell you what he looks like now.
Not Intimidated commented:
You started this war, Congressman. You attacked the electorate by imposing onerous laws on us in order to enhance your own power. You’re taking from us without our consent, and you’re deliberately degrading our quality of life because it’s what you want. Your party has said that you think we’re unfair, so you’re going to redistribute our wealth and force us to live the life you want us to live.
You started this war, so stop complaining.
Hera commented:
Funny how these dems are suddenly so frightened. Yet the only person we know for sure has received death threats is a Republican, Eric Cantor. The person who arrested for threatening Cantor and his family was an Obama supporter.
bigmike commented:
Why would a liberal join the military? …His bio states that he first went to university then played 1 year of minor league baseball then worked for several Dem state reps and THEN signed up for and served 4 years in the Air Force and THEN he went back to POLITICS. He flies C-130s in the Reserves. It looks to me like he’s using his military career to pad his political resume…..Just think, in a few years he can start telling stories about dodging flak and missles and maybe SNIPERS….kinda like a Hillary/Murtha thing.
Iconoclast commented:
All in all, a typical outburst of shameless hypocritical hysteria **BUT** even if he were sincere, would this not reflect the recognition he had done the right thing in his military service and the wrong thing in Congress?
Andreas K. commented:
Nothing new there.
According to our left here on this side of the Pond, conservatives like German Pro movements, people like the EDL and brave men like Wilders are significantly more dangerous than “radical” mohammedans.
mike191 commented:
Just produce the vile letters that made you frightened for your safety.Also, produce all letters you wrote condemning code pink and all those who daily called for the assassination of President 43.
AuntieMadder commented:
jonyjoe101
April 3rd, 2010 | 12:48 am | #1
Why would a liberal ever join the military?
Free room and board, free college education, free health care…it’s a libtard’s dream come true…during peacetime, that is. Bet they were more than pissed off when, expecting peacetime service, like many libtards before them had spent their military careers, they were sent into wartime Afghanistan and then Iraq. Like, what a buzz kill, ya know? They’re probably the rare military/military vets war protesters that we hear about sometimes.
Liz commented:
Hey Congressman,
It was Barack Hussein Obama who said:
1. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”
2. “Argue with neighbors, get in their face,”
3. “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry.”
4. Top officials at the White House said, “If you get hit, we’ll punch back twice as hard,”
And Conservatives are getting beat up and fingers bitten off. So cry me a river buddy. Maybe you should just quit.
AuntieMadder commented:
Pelousy’s tearful prediction that the TP protests would become as violent as her tearfully shared recollections of SF rioting and murder were didn’t come to be as she had so hoped they would. So, she and her Demonrats are manufacturing them, making it at least appear that her prediction has, indeed, come to pass.
T. Shaw commented:
I was at a wedding in 1986 and the moron hippy couple also at the table said something asinine about getting their kids into West Point bc it’s free. What a pair of idiots.
I was in the USAF in the early 1970′s.
There were two or three AF’s. The combat commands: SAC (B52/ICBM’s), TAC (jet fighters). And, then it was MAC (airial bus and truck drivers). Then there were the weanies that did finance and etc.
This POS was one of them airial bus drivers.
PS: There are (I know a few who should bbe shot) still anti-Americans in the military and among civilians working for the military that hate this country. They are only there b/c it’s a pay check.
kate commented:
Pilots didn’t used to be such wussies.
Lie Hard Thiefson commented:
If you oppose us, you are evil.
You are dangerous and must be stopped.
We’re laying the foundations for the concentration camps.
JanH commented:
I am sure he is spouting a line. The new marching orders are to make it look like those who oppose this takeover are violent.
Beck pointed out recently that these people in power now are the same people who were trying to blow things up and get people killed to get what they wanted in the 60s and 70s. They figured out it didn’t work because the American public doesn’t like violence. So now they are turning the tables- making it sound like conservatives are being violent in their opposition to Obamacare.
They are faking scared to make us look bad.
And probably to incite real violence against us.
squeaky commented:
never forget saul alinsky – infiltration with the aim of changing/destroying the system from within. jonathon hutto [appeal for redresss]
being an example of someone who graduated from howard university with a degree in poli sci
and worked for human rights [?] felt the need
to join the navy to see the world and pay off
his bills……. an anti-war guy who joins the service so he can be “shocked” in uniform….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_for_Redress
neomom commented:
If you don’t want to be eaten, don’t dress up as a pork chop and walk through the lions cage. Did they expect the population to just roll over? Millions of Americans are beyond angry. Out of those millions thousands are homicidal, out of those thousands, hundreds are just whacked enough to take it upon themselves to make “adjustments”.
I pray for the safety of those that commited treason against our country. We can remove them from office the right way, with a vote. I am working for that. However, if anything happens I will shed no tears, He and his Ilk
Has brought it on themselves. We told them no. I have to agree with him. Actually, he would be safer in Afganistan.
squeaky commented:
people have to feel they have some control of their lives…….when their opposition is dismissed as nothing more than racism without any honest discussion you will have some irate
people. they’ve been raking us over the coals
with every hairbrained bill they’ve been attempting to pass hoping to wear “we the people” down. shuting down the legitimate
concern with trumpted up charges and they’re wondering about anger they’re addressing as unwarrented.
Sickofobama commented:
This constant drumbeat against the Tea Partiers, NORMAL Americans who are against Obamacare and Obama and his ilk, is all a ruse to get the other side riled up.
Remember, these same people are all Alinskyites and were trained to use all of these techniques. Obama is the master of them all.
I’m sure they will keep it until November so Obama can have an excuse to call off the elections by declaring Martial Law.
JJAYNED commented:
Yeah, lets keep the attention on the tea partiers rather than discussing the bill. They are trying to make the tea partiers the problem-not the bill. Please don’t fall for it.
AuntieMadder commented:
Sickofobama
April 3rd, 2010 | 7:01 am | #22
Or at least suspend the Constitutional right to assemble before the next big TP rally in the name of “public safety” or “security of public officials” or something like that.
Tom Kubiak commented:
It’s obvious his days are numbered. What a retard!
Arch commented:
This is all a buildup to justify restricting further our liberties such as licensing handguns and reinstating the fairness doctrine.
About being in an AFRES C-130 unit: Herk crews are in some fairly dangerous situations, especially for trash haulers. C130s fly into some very remote places and get shot at some. MAC is now Air Mobility Command, but there have always been two Big Mac (C5s, C141s, C17s) and Little MAC (C130s, HH53s). When I was a 2LT, C130s were in TAC!
Gregory of Yardale commented:
Drama Queen.
justasimplepatriot commented:
He flew C130s. In Iraq, there was one C130 lost to hostile fire.
Notice this poser doesn’t make it clear he was combat support. He is still posturing – hoping that people see him in an F-15. Even when he tells the truth, he lies.
nobama2012 commented:
Read his whole statement again. Then think of those private conversations behind closed doors with Obama, Pelosi and Reid and other criminals where the arm twisting was done to get those needed votes. Maybe that’s where he became very afraid for his life in hostile situations?
JJAYNED commented:
This is thoroughly explained by Iowahawk.typepad.com–warning:VERY FUNNY!
Bob commented:
They are really out to shut down the Tea Party and any one who goes against the leftist movement. Sorry but it isn’t going to stop. No one wants anyone to get hurt, but they are the ones sending out union thugs to attack and throw eggs. They are just worried about not having a job after November.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Aw jeez. What a tool.
Its going to be a long, hot, ugly summer. November can’t come soon enough.
Flyover Sam commented:
We’ve had a signification of the total collapse of Congressional ethics within the Democratic party institution. While certainly not unexpected when their self-regulating framework was completely dismantled, keeping Rangel and other crooks in power (with cash in the freezer and young Congressional pages in the D.C. condo “rumpus room”), the reaction to the surge in anger in the majority of the people is a fascinating study.
If anything, I think this gives us clear evidence that the 2008 election was totally misread by Obama. It was not a mandate to go fascist-left and explode the size of government; it was a demand to reduce the presence of corrupt government. Seeing government unable to resolve the corruption, the people have radicalized outward and now demand the removal of government presence itself (as it has demonstrated itself to be incapable of self-cleansing).
The Republicans need to be very careful; everything must be focused on government reduction and the eradication of corruption. The system may be to the point that it’s not salvageable; looking at an IRS that can’t balance its books and has instituted multi-billion dollar computer system after system only to have to scrap it, having a DOE rife with corruption and perfect for letting Chinese nationals walk in and steal secrets, a NSA intent on spying on Americans while imposing PC rules on foreign threats, a CIA that is as political as the State Dept, and so on, the system may not survive another failed restructuring.
The United States is financially bankrupt. Whether we should pursue Chapter 11 (restructuring) or Chapter 7 (total liquidation) is up to how clearly the Republicans read the message: radically reform, flat tax, eliminate the IRS, eliminate the Dept. of Education, eliminate all government presence in the arts and media (goodbye PBS and NPR propaganda ministries), eliminate Dept of Agriculture, fire every State Dept. and intelligence agency head where there is evidence of any political game-playing.
Focus the Federal government on two things:
1) Military and the borders.
2) Debt elimination.
Let the states be the ground for experimentation on social services, agriculture, education, etc.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
The Big Lie is not working – neither is Barney Frank’s explosive fart. This sucks! John Boccieri never ever came close to stepping on an IED while flying his aircraft in Iraq. He sucks! Obamacare sucks! Barney Frank sucks! Tea party plant Jacob Ward sucks!
Ah crap, why don’t I just say it, the democratic party sucks! America sucks! I am just glad I will not be joining 0bamacare. It sucks!
Sure, I should be kick out of Office but just give me some more time cook-up another Marxist swindle. It’s sure make me rich and to make America weak!
I know, Axelrod has his head up Barney Franks butt while trying to unclog the plumbing after that Fannie Mae cluster muck but, Joe Biden can handle the talking points and the NYT can publish them. Maybe, MSNBC and lend a few talking heads… I think the blockage in Barney Franks butt could use them.
My limousine is running and I have a twisted ankle so I need Gibbs to wheelchair me to the door.
Remember, you are in good and dirty hands with Barack H. 0bama. Let me be clear, Easter sucks. Good day – you typical White Bible clinging White Wingers.
See: Only Indicted Militia Member With Party Affiliation Is a Democrat
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/300150.php
czekmark commented:
Hey Boccieri, now that you’ve sold out America, your consceince bothering you? You wake up from bad dreams being chased by the people who were denied healthcare? I guess you didn’t realize that actions have consequences.
Robb76 commented:
“Having flown missions in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan, I know what it is like to be in harms way….”
The hell you do.
Robb
Nam vet
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
This congress-wimp is a sniveling leftist bed-wetter who knows nothing about fear and being afraid.
If he truly wants to sense fear, he should wear an “I LOVE ANN COULTER” t-shirt and walk across the campus in Berkeley!
Rob De Witt commented:
Let it be said that violence on the streets of America is a sad, sad thing.
Nonetheless, to the extent that any of these liars are suddenly feeling uncomfortable about having gone too far, all I can say is “Good.”
And hey Robb – thanks for your service, brother.
No Man commented:
Mercenaries paid by the Democrat party and labor unions attack Tea Party activities and people, and Tea Party people are dangerous?
This is Orwellian.
They are tearing apart our country and telling us to STFU.
Where does Boccieri think this is going?
T. Shaw commented:
Suppose you were an idiot. And, suppose you were Congresscreep Boccieri. But I repeat myself.
I wonder if Bocc. is losing sleep over the danger that Guam will capsize under the weight of 8,000 Marines.
I’d be afraid Guam will sink into the ocean if that were 8,000 C-130 pilots.
Pat the First commented:
Now they know how the entire Bush family feels. Bet it isn’t as funny as it was when the 24/7 vitriol was targeted at the Bush family for 8 years. You sowed this kind of discontent. Now you get the reap the results like losing their jobs. That probably is the worse threat they are getting.
Enough with this stupidity. No one seemed to care about this when it happened during President Bush’s administration. It was just ignored. I suggest that everyone ignore these so-called, unsupported threats this time. At least, there was video and audio of real threats during President Bush’s administration.
These lefties just don’t want to answer questions by “we the people”. Too bad for them. They should have listened. Now they get to lose their jobs. So be it.
Pat the First commented:
Remember . . . the biggest threat we have is our vote.
ObjectionSustained commented:
Not. Backing. Down.
reverse racism-GUILT commented:
Guilt…guilt..guilt. These idiots are feeling mighty guilty. They know they sold and finacially raped their country to an Hamas Muslim Arab Leader. They put the enemy in office & gave him power that he needed to destroy 60% of America. More nukes for IRAN, Korea, weapons to tibet—. He spits on Israel–Now to cover their shame they are using “transference” of enormous GUILT to attack those who begged, pleaded Congress not to do this. They are ate up with GUILT!!! I would hate to be them (knowing that I killed future generations of medical research, health care, education, farms, science, FREEDOM, military, and security)they TRUE are TRAITORS-treasonists. He has blocked all of our natural resources-forcing us to buy oil from the SADUIS (arabs). Muslims have taken over our elite schools. I call it reverse racist GUILT. They are the lowest form of LIFE-traitors to their own kind….fellow AMERICANS.
Lily commented:
Soldiers are in real danger as they try to bring freedom to Iraq. Democrat Congresspeople are in ‘danger’ of losing their jobs because they are steeling freedom from their constituents. Oh yes, just the same.
Why don’t they just try to actually represent their constituents’ wishes?
KR commented:
Fantastic piece from Paul Ryan:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/02/should_america_bid_farewell_to_exceptional_freedom.html
Ryan is a statesman. I wish there were many more. Have not seen any in the dem. party in congress but dimwits, race-baiters, deceivers,…
Lily commented:
“We need to have a respectful conversation about contemporary issues”
I believe we already tried that. We (the people) were told to shut up – apparently they know what’s best for us.
Finncrisp commented:
Used to be that people had the strength of their own convictions and were willing to stand on them come what may. These weak kneed excuses for representatives make up fake threats, can’t justify their actions, and cower in the corner when the going gets tough. The battle analogy made by this congressman is an insult to the uniform he used to wear. He went from defending his country to selling out his country and he should be ashamed of himself for not taking personal responsiblility for his actions. If he is really satisfied to support this marxist, and wants to escape the displeasure of the “feared” voters at the ballot box, all I can say is lots of luck with that.
But don’t insult the uniform in the process.
...passions run deep? commented:
A damn bus drivers, another frickin John Kerry. You want to know what it’s like to be in harm’s way there Congressman? Spend a little time in the “Indian Country” Ho/Bo Woods Binh Duong Vietnam, on the damn ground. If you can walk out of there alive [to this day] that’s harm’s way ass/hole!!. The only good thing that happen in 1967 was a liberal like you standing next to me got his ass decapitated.
No disrespect to you fly/boys, especially you helicopter pilot and door gunners. Would not be alive today if it wasn’t for you guys, some of the ‘bravest men’ I ever knew.
down with dems commented:
If he feels safer in Iraq and Afghanistan, he should go back there. Vote his ass out.
Sickofobama commented:
KR:
I justed finished Paul Ryan’s excellent piece and although it is quite long, it should be required reading for all Americans who possess half a brain.
Diehard Obama zombies need not apply.
aprilnovember811 commented:
“Having flown missions in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan, I know what it’s like to be in harm’s way. But I never imagined serving in Congress could feel the same. While Members of Congress, including myself, experience threats against our lives, our families, and our staff in the wake of the historic health care vote, I am calling on our leaders to be responsible with their remarks, especially those with a national microphone.
There is free speech in this country. When you disobey the oath you took to follow the Constitution, you can expect anger and outrage against you. I would suggest, obeying your oath, representing the people, and you won’t have to feel afraid. If you don’t feel you can live up to that, I would suggest getting out, before you do any more damage to our country. Otherwise, I hope you continue to feel afraid. In the words of the wise man Thomas Jefferson:
~When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
~Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
~We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
AuntieMadder commented:
reverse racism-GUILT
April 3rd, 2010 | 9:07 am | #45
Guilt…guilt..guilt. These idiots are feeling mighty guilty. They know they sold and finacially raped their country to an Hamas Muslim Arab Leader.
You give them too much credit, my friend. Being a decent person, you wrongly assume that they feel the emotions that you feel. But they’re not decent people and it’s not guilt they’re feeling that’s causing them to lash out in fear; it’s paranoia. They know they raped us and sold us down the river and, worse, they know that we know it. They’re scared sh!tless, seeing GOP boogey-men hiding in every shadow, figments of their own imagination. They know what they’d do if the situation were reversed, how they’d destroy those who sold and raped them, and in their twisted, sick minds, the harm they’d inflict would be deserved. Now, they’re positive that we, the people, are conspiring to do to them the just punishment for their crimes as per their twisted, sick minds.
Sociopaths lack empathy and therefore are incapable of feeling guilty about the rotten and evil things they do. Sure, they know that “normal” people feel guilt, but they don’t feel they’re missing anything. Rather, they find us to be weak and contemptuous because we feel guilt, shame, remorse, mercy, etc. They know what guilty feelings look like on us, so they know how to appear guilt-ridden when feeling guilty in front of others will serve in their favor. But it’s only acting as guilt isn’t on the very short spectrum of their very limited emotional range.
Otoh, sociopaths believe others are capable of the same evil they can and have done, and that belief keeps them awake at night. That’s not guilt; it’s paranoia that’s eating them up.
jerryl commented:
the only burnning cars buildings riots arrest ive ever seen have been at lib protest case in point those union thugs last week tossing eggs at the tea party express and AD then lieing to the cops the g8 sumit anns speach in canada the list goes on and on with the libs
BurmaShave commented:
The difference is when Rep. John Boccieri was a lieutenant in the United States Air Force he was fighting FOR freedom.
Joanne commented:
What this representative is doing is setting up another phase of Obama taking control of America. The Democrats spout that they are soooo afraid, and their lives and the lives of their families are being threatened, just so the Tea Partiers, conservatives, and any opposition can be shut down. If they are stating they feel threatened, it can only mean that the Tea Partiers, conservatives, and any opposition are going to face from Democrats what they accuse the whole opposition of doing. Classic.
RickS commented:
That is very odd that Boccieri is in the military. The vast majority of military members are Republicans. I think there’s just something about the Democrat party–can’t put my finger on it, but it just seems kind of sissified or effeminate–that really turns off a majority of military members. I think about 70% voted for McCain in 2008. Boccieri must take a lot of heat for being a Democrat in his unit.
Opaobie commented:
I’m late to the party, but did this guy serve in the military and fly combat missions? Since he is obviously a Lib, is he one of the ones Murtha and Kerry and Obama described as “bombing villages and killing civilians”? He seems to be using that same tactic on the American people, so he shouldn’t be surprised if they push back. Hey, HERO, if it’s too hot in the kitchen, go pull your KraP somewhere else.
Opaobie commented:
OK, I checked his website. He is an Air Force Major (Reserves, I assume), who flew (maybe still flies) C-130s. Maybe he only delivered the poison-laced candy and booby-trapped toys that Murtha and Kerry and several of the other Leftist military-haters claimed we used.
Ohio, BOOT this bum, he is a disgrace to his uniform and to his Congressional office. He violated the oath he took for BOTH.
richard mcenroe commented:
IF we’re as seriously dangerous as the Iraqi insurgency we have to majorly up our productivity guys…
Turbo Tax Timmie commented:
They are sooo scared…little scaredy cats.
Let’s surround the capital again. That freaks them out. This is just another major distraction. They must be getting ready to ram another bill through behind locked doors in the dead of night. Remember that they love to change the locks on Republicans so they can’t get in on the “middle of the night” talks. Dems and progressives are NOT the same. No more than neocons or conservatives are.
75% of the Dems are opposed to this government take-over. Of course the barry soetoro admin and congress know that Tea Party members are from all parties including Indy. Repubs did NOT start the TEA PARTIES. But being desperate for a comeback they go along with barry soetoro’s claims that it’s all republican. It’s NON PARTISAN and stop forgetting this or go down in flames again!!!!
Bob Grant commented:
” ‘Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.’
You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Saul Alinsky Power tactic #4
Where’s the GOP leadership when statements like this are made?
I’m tired of their “Thank you sir, may I have another mentality”
Boccieri’s comments are beyond the pale..
Steele, Boehner, Oompa Loompa Hatch, Limp wristed Lyndsey “The Maverick” & the rest of the elected GOP members had better start vigorously defending us in Public or there will be a third party movement.
I for one am sick & tired of the GOP leadership being effing noble!!! It’s time for them to get in the mud pit with us.
Or it’s adios muchachos to them.
Meryl commented:
Bet his flight suit and skivies needed changing frequently when flying his missions, especially since he gets so frightened from these threats they aren’t able to produce for us to see.
Robb76 commented:
My Nam recollections; Those airplane drivers who flew 123s and C7As deserve our respect. They often would land at hot LZs. 130s not so much.
just my HO.
RebeccaH commented:
Let him fear us, as all those who support tyranny should.
bg commented:
++
I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life
if I do.
He noted that the three politicians’ campaign war chests are
heavily funded by radical Islamists who support the mosque.
["While brave young Virginia men and women are risking their lives to fight terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, Connolly, Moran and Kaine are yucking it up with them and slapping each other on the back over at the Marriott,"]
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