STARK: They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where you gonna get that money? You gonna 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 could get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.

They have lost it. If there is any doubt, they have totally lost it. This is probably — I don’t know for sure, I’m going to speculate, since he brought children into this — that this is some debate, the speeches prior to the override vote on the SCHIP bill. Because he said, “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…” meaning to hit 18, because they’re going to die because we’re not going to pass the SCHIP program, is the implication. “…for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.” Since he didn’t single out any particular Republican by name, the remarks were not taken down. But he was talking about the Republicans.

The National Republican Congressional Committee declared that he had trampled on the sacrifice of our troops with this comment. This guy — look, he’s long been a nutcase. He’s from the Bay Area, long been a full-fledged, certifiable nutcase. This is who they are, folks. Now, I know a lot of people say, “This is not all Democrats. You can’t generalize like that.” He is much closer to them than you might want to admit, much closer to them than you realize. He’s certainly a dead ringer for the people on their blogs out there that are yanking the chains, the kind of anti-war activists that Sen. Harry goes to see on a Monday night that nobody knows about ’til afterwards, that’s the way they think.

Those are the people telling Sen. Harry what they’re unhappy about, and these are the kind of people Sen. Harry has to try to keep happy. Same with Pelosi. Her complaining and whining the other day about all these protesters polluting her yard and her garden by hanging out there, she couldn’t get rid of them because they had “impeach Bush” T-shirts on, which meant it was a free speech issue. Fortney “Pete” Stark is one of those guys. I mean, he’s not out there on her lawn, but the way they think. This is Battered Liberal Syndrome.

Here’s the dirty little secret. This guy is from San Francisco. He’s from the Bay Area. This reflects a lot of the thinking in that part of the country. He meant to say this. He is famous for going overboard on any number of subjects in the number of years that I have been familiar with Fortney “Pete” Stark. But I’m going to tell you something, he meant to say this, he was proud that he said it, I’m sure. He may end up apologizing, but if he does, that’s what’s going to be phony. I think he’ll come back with another attack: “They’re trying to shut me up or make me apologize and so forth.

He holds the US military, and the president, and everybody that he referred to in that speech in total contempt.