There is at least the occasional bright spot, although we in Seattle have a damn slight chance of getting rid of baghdad dim-jim, he's now gotten stepped so far away from reality that even a few of the local far left press are taking him to task for it.
"This is nuttier than a tin of Almond Roca, and it's the kind of blather that solidifies McDermott as a marginal congressional character whose greatest accomplishment is to provide fodder for Matt Drudge. "
www.seattleweekly.com/features/0351/031217_news_mossback.php"Dazed and disoriented, not seen since the Iraq war began, he emerged talkative yet defiant. Saddam Hussein? No, Rep. Jim McDermott. "
"The past year seems to have been as tough for McDermott as it has been for Saddam. One has lost his country; the other has lost his mind. "
archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=jim19&date=20031219&query=mcdermott"The congressman from Seattle has finally done it.
"McDuhmott's comments were way off-base"
"Baghdad Jim" McDermott has lost his mind. Gone bonkers. Fallen from the cuckoo's nest and broken his left wing."
"Lacking proof, McDermott's comments are irresponsible verbal diarrhea. And they are an unadulterated embarrassment to any card-carrying Democrat.
Can you blame fellow Washington Democrat Rep. Norm Dicks, who pinched his nose and held the commentary at arm's length. "Fantasy," Dicks said in characterizing Baghdad Jim's hallucinations."
"McDermott and Dean come from the medical field. McDermott was a psychiatrist. Dean was a family physician.
If politics were medicine, they both would deserve to be sued for malpractice"
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