Stark Raving Mad

For those already inured to highfalutin, nonsensical rants from liberal Democrats, this next example should come as no big surprise. But just maybe it will serve as the rhetorical icing on the cake. California Representative and Democrat Pete Stark had a meltdown on the floor of Congress and in the process made a convenient fool of himself and his Party with the following contemptible statement while addressing his Republican adversaries:

"Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the war or children. 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."

If you can stomach it, follow this link to watch the clip:
http://breitbart.tv/html/6912.html

Outraged Republicans have filed a protest to Nancy Pelosi and are demanding that the churlish congressman either apologize or resign. House Republican Leader John Boehner released the following statement:

"Our troops in Iraq are fighting against al-Qaeda and other radical jihadists hellbent on killing the people we are sent here to represent. Congressman Stark's statement dishonors not only the Commander-in-Chief, but the thousands of courageous men and women of America's armed forces who believe in their mission and are putting their lives on the line for our freedom and security. Congressman Stark should retract his statement and apologize to the House, our Commander-in-Chief, and the families of our soldiers and commanders fighting terror overseas."

This is the latest attempt by the Left to forge a new victim class. They've done it to women, they've done it to minorities, blacks in particular, they've done it to the so-called poor and now they are turning to the United States military. The life-blood of liberalism and the Democratic Party is a steady flow of victims who can rely on the beneficence of politicians to extricate them from their alleged state of squalor. The military does not need to be saved by sanctimonious Democrats. Those serving knew what they were signing up for and it is thoroughly condescending and insulting for elitists in Washington to speak of them as stranded children in harm's way.

In better days, Rep. Stark caught the attention of the folks at the esteemed Secular Coalition for America, who were keen to offer a $1,000 prize to the person who could single out the "highest level atheist, agnostic, humanist or any other kind of nontheist currently holding elected public office in the United States." Stark describes himself as "a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being." How can we describe this liberal gadfly...?