Video: Gen. Casey pwns Ted Kennedy
posted at 8:22 pm on November 15, 2007 by Bryan
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Everyone’s probably watching the Democrat debate, but here’s a clip that’s worth preserving. During budget testimony today, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey faced off against Sen. Ted Kennedy. Kennedy snarked about the state of the military and asked sarcastically which enemy that it has faced has put the Army in the state that it’s in. Gen. Casey’s answer, more or less, is the Democrats who cut the military’s budget in the 1990s have put the Army in the state that it’s in.
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The enemy is you Senator.
TheBigOldDog on November 15, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Jabba the Kennedy speaks and he can BITE ME.
Talk to me about waterboarding Teddy
400lb Gorilla on November 15, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Same people who are doing it now… holding our FRAKKIN BUDGET over our heads so they can smear the President!
Mazztek on November 15, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Right on General Casey.
Catie96706 on November 15, 2007 at 8:33 PM
Gosh! surely the General had more to say…he was on a roll.
jatfla on November 15, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Contrast the intelligence of our military leaders with the dolts in Congress. Un-freaking-real.
infidel4life on November 15, 2007 at 8:40 PM
It’s too bad that Teddy was expelled from Harvard because he cheated on an ethics exam. If he’d graduated and gone on to law school he would have known better than to ask a question that he doesn’t know the answer to.
I have met the enemy and it is you.
Buy Danish on November 15, 2007 at 8:42 PM
This is how Clinton’s numbers looked so good. They always say how great Clinton was because he ‘created’ a budget surplus. But they fail to recognize that his first act as President was to slash the military in half and close most of the bases. And they also fail to recognize the technology boom that happened in spite of the president’s activities in the Oval Office.
So Clinton’s fiscal numbers looked good. But how he did it is suspect for ‘leadership’.
ThackerAgency on November 15, 2007 at 8:43 PM
It just proves you can be honest and forthright and get the point across. So many let kennedy and his ilk push them around and get all mealy mouthed and supposedly diplomatic and come off weak and pathetic. We need more people standing up and putting it right back in the democrats faces because they can never respond to the naked truth.
peacenprosperity on November 15, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Speaking truth to a power hungry coward. Nice clip Bryan.
Zorro on November 15, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Idoits like you Mr Kennedy , and how much money was waisted on your big dig and how many innocent people have died because of you {and your drunk driving}
Mojack420 on November 15, 2007 at 8:55 PM
It is up to you Teddy… we can sink or swim.
AndrewsDad on November 15, 2007 at 8:58 PM
You Teddy. You and your pork-encrusted cohorts insulated in these halls. You and your staff, so preoccupied with power and ideology that you failed in your oath to preserve the Republic. You and those that support your anti-American, self loathing, hypocritical political party.
MCPO Airdale on November 15, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Very funny, Mr. Wisenhiemer. I’d rather gargle with nitric acid.
Hollowpoint on November 15, 2007 at 9:05 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
Wade on November 15, 2007 at 9:07 PM
There is a little bit more to this than just snark…Is the sot really not getting it? Does he really not understand the burden that he placed on the Army back in the 90’s? Does he not get that this enemy may not be able to beat militarily, but in order for the job to be done right, we need to let the military run the show and do things right?
Great link Bryan!
Pam on November 15, 2007 at 9:16 PM
The only thing I wish General Casey would have added after making his point, was a well deserved “biaaatch to the good Senator Kene hic kene hic KENNEDY.
commonsensehoosier on November 15, 2007 at 9:18 PM
Has anyone thought about how such an execrable and nasty buffoon gets sent back to the Senate time after time for 45 years? The direct election of Senators may actually be part of the problem. The old system gave us Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and and John C. Calhoun; the 17th Amendment has given us people like Kennedy, Byrd, Stevens, Lott, Schumer and Akaka. Even when the state legislatures sent losers to the Senate, they didn’t stay for 40-50 years at a stretch. At least half the U.S. Senate are walking, talking advertisements for the repeal of the 17th Amendment-yet another Progeressive-era reform that didn’t work out as planned.
Travis Bickle on November 15, 2007 at 9:30 PM
The intellectual disconnect between the actions of Dems the past 20 years to destroy the military and Kennedy’s questioning (perhaps rhetorical?) of “what military force” caused the situation of a thinly stretched military today is so profound, it has to be a dishonest ploy by the Senator from Massachusetts.
To what end this questioning was I have no idea, other than to say the military is incapable of fighting ANY enemy and thus should be cut down even MORE and brought home from Bush’s folly.
Kennedy may as well have said: “We have repeatedly cut your funding, and yet you persist in trying to win wars, when will you just give up?”
Neo on November 15, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Oh no they aren’t. Moonbat Military Mom and her
3 tour son asking who is going to bring the troops home.
Saying Bush is going to send troops to Iran next soon.
That was all I needed to hear.
I just had dinner
His Mom never told him to remove his hat inside a
building either.
Texyank on November 15, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Our military, enlisted and officer, take an oath where they solomnely swear to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foriegn and domestic.
I can imagine the tension when they come face-to-face with the domestic enemies.
highhopes on November 15, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Do you actually believe kennedy has an honest, decent atom in his entire body? kennedy cares about nothing but the kennedy’s.
peacenprosperity on November 15, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Beginning his 1st term, President Bush, after having an excellent working relationship with the Dems in Texas, set out to befriend the Dems on Capital Hill, starting with Ted. He named a new building after JFK, he invited Ted to the White House to watch a film that honored JFK, & he let Ted co-author Bush’s No Child Left Behind act. The result? Ted hates every Republican alive just as much as ever. The most partisan, diabolical, drunk whoremonger in D.C.
jgapinoy on November 15, 2007 at 9:57 PM
The democraps come face-to-face with one of the domestic enemies every time they look in a mirror.
WildBillK on November 15, 2007 at 10:08 PM
The ones in washington have no reflection.
peacenprosperity on November 15, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Kennedy probably blames Mary Jo.
csdeven on November 15, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Heh… scalpel straight to the heart of the matter.
silverfox on November 15, 2007 at 10:27 PM
“The days of a free lunch are over,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
This statement was made at the same briefing…..
Pam on November 15, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Wait until they’ve gained complete power and they’re prosecuting our generals, leaders and hero’s and remember the injustice of this moment combined with then.
If so, and the worst imaginable comes around, I hope it comes to war. We’ve had the war on crime, war on drugs, war on organized crime, etc. Why not the war on Congress?
Griz on November 15, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Well Senator, how is Sergey Lavrov’s golf game these days?
Speakup on November 15, 2007 at 10:57 PM
I am tired of hearing about our “broken” Military. I am glad someone stood up to Teddy, and this tired line of attack. The Republicans in congress should be doing this on a daily basis. I think I will google the cuts Clinton made in the Military. I would like to know the exact numbers. I tried to make this point to a lib friend of mine last week, but would have been more convincing if I had the numbers to drive home the point.
chief on November 15, 2007 at 11:22 PM
The General is exactly correct.
A perfect example is the USS Cole. Democrats/Clinton believed refueling our warships at sea was just too expensive. Due to those cuts, the Cole was forced to refuel in the port of a known terrorist country. We all know the results.
mojowire on November 15, 2007 at 11:29 PM
He was probably so tanked he can’t remember. In fact, I would be surprised if he could remember anything 90 days ago let alone that far back.
I certainly do remember this fat blowhard so giddy back then about spending the “peace dividend”.
Another answer could have been, “it takes time to retrain from a Meals on Wheels mission to a combat mission, or fishing dead relatives out of the water when they drive their planes in”.
91Veteran on November 15, 2007 at 11:53 PM
Words cannot describe what I think of Schmuckie and his little comment.
So he thinks our military is just looking for a free lunch?
Whatever happened to all the posturing over enough body armor, etc.?
91Veteran on November 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM
That is true, all citizens do have their breaking point. Even in America it is how we came to be wasn’t it? They were put there by the people, and can be removed by the people. Who knows? Maybe there is a certain time in the future when the American people will choose to hit the reset button. I don’t think now, but it is always possible and history has proved this time and again.
gator70 on November 16, 2007 at 12:42 AM
“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.” – Donald Rumsfeld
Try that one on for size, fatboy!
Teddy on November 16, 2007 at 1:37 AM
Gawd. The officers who have to testify before Congress should get combat & hardship pay. To have to sit there and answer f*cking ridiculous questions from the likes of Chappaquiddick Ted is more than mortal man can bear.
Splashman on November 16, 2007 at 2:44 AM
“Everyone’s probably watching the Democrat debate…”
You’d be surprised, Bryan. I can’t even watch a REPUBLICAN debate with enthusiasm. I’ll be damned if I’m going to watch the Surrendercrat version.
Kevin M on November 16, 2007 at 6:12 AM
Oh, they recognized it… they just sold it to China to use against us later.
Texas Nick 77 on November 16, 2007 at 6:52 AM
[hic]
N. O'Brain on November 16, 2007 at 8:25 AM
and to think, this tool is re-elected every six years.
Fat Boy is a disgrace.
Mooseman on November 16, 2007 at 9:22 AM
General Caseys’ answer went right over his head. The Senator was flommoxed by connect the dot games as a kid.
captivated_dem on November 16, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Teddy hasn’t a clue as to what an ugly a person he has become.
He lost his soul to the devil years ago, and hasn’t the courage to face himself with that reallity.
The wrong Kennedy’s died, Teddy wouldn’t make a pimple on either of his brothers a$$.
Now the only one left is this POS.
leanright on November 16, 2007 at 1:06 PM
An updated version of a bumper sticker I saw many years ago -
SPIFF1669 on November 16, 2007 at 1:11 PM
I don’t understand why the name “Kennedy” is to be treated so reverently in this country…Starting with the old man their all bunch left wing elitist, self-centered, socialists. God I hope I didn’t hurt the feelings of dumb ass democrap that believes in this fairly tale called Camelot…what a load of crap.
oldernslower on November 16, 2007 at 10:08 PM
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