Senate Deadhead : Kid Bully Pat Leahy and Vice President Dick Cheney will meet again
Neumayr, George
Senate Deadhead Kid Bully Pat Leahy and Vice President Dick Cheney will meet again. BY GEORGE NEUMAYR ATRICK J. LEAHY had grown accustomed to grinning at his victim after sticking a knife in his...
...Staffers could hear screaming from the room and saw Feinstein emerge from it visibly shaken...
...After Howard Dean signed • the nation's • first same-sex N SPECTATOR 23 SENATE D E A D H E A D He followed the Grateful Dead faithfully to the end, once bringing Jerry Garcia to the Senate dining room...
...computers...
...of a fence to defend against marauding Moslem countries convey the meanest suicide bombers...
...What, so you won't talk with Democrats...
...As soon as we mentioned the word prayer he got irritated...
...regardless of local laws-legislation that gave even a few conservatives like James Sensenbrenner pause...
...If Iran isn't stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons, there can be little question that, with or without the approval of the United States, Israel would have to preempt and, just as it destroyed the Osirak nuclear plant of Iraq in 1981, would destroy the Iranian nuclear installations - by whatever means it might take...
...But Israel will not allow that to happen...
...A former staffer for Orrin Hatch, for example, recounts how Leahy once turned on the Utah senator during a hearing and said, "You son of a bitch...
...Leahy was a prosecutor for a short period of time, making a name for himself after refusing to prosecute skinny dippers...
...What major legislative accomplishment can Leahy take credit for...
...When Ted Kennedy sought to block the measure with an amendment, says the staffer, Leahy, "alone among the Dems, voted `no' on the amendment...
...starting with the halt' - baked ideas that formed him...
...Leaky Leahy," a nickname that derives from Leahy's leaking of the Iran-Contra report to reporters who published the unclassified documents with Leahy's name on them (which led to Leahy's expulsion from the Intelligence George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Committee), is a blundering batman who rarely looks Spectator 24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR April 2005 You deserve a factual look at...
...That cursed place has come to symbolize the horror of the Holocaust...
...Turning beet red and reeling from anger, Leahy stalked out of his office...
...He hoped that his visible presence would rattle Cheney, reported observers...
...He demanded nuclear disarmament in the 1980s for the sake of his children "who will live most of their lives in the next century if there is one...
...Leahy hires whack jobs," says the staffer...
...L EAHY'S CHAIRMANSHIP was defined by petty spats and heavy-handedness...
...The nations of Europe stand by, some of not...
...And Cheney, a more formidable figure than Leahy normally confronts, was far above his weight class...
...and gadgeteering...
...First, he played the pious and hurt senator...
...Leahy will agree to co-sponsor a bill and then screw you later on that same bill," he says...
...What are the facts...
...Of course destruction of Israel...
...Israel is the greatest danger to the peace of the world (barely Most of the world stands by as the Moslems, already armed to edging out the United States...
...They enable us to pursue these goals and to publish these messages in national newspapers and magazines...
...he would say to the press when asked to give the tog...
...Israel is aware that its days would be numbered if any of its mortal enemies were to acquire nuclear weapons...
...If you had any question, you could have just come and asked me," he said...
...lie would use an oversized gavel as a way of asserting his authority, and when members didn't accede to his wishes, he would resort to an imaginative range of petty vindictiveness...
...Leahy quickly changed the subject to a grievance of his own...
...Kennedy offered four more amendments when the bill went through the committee," he says...
...Leahy's vote effectively killed the amendment...
...He is the biggest baby...
...l Ie is a loud promoter of Ben and...
...Senate Republicans are debating whether to use the "nuclear option" against obstructionist Democrats...
...Go f-k yourself," replied Cheney...
...In that, them return, often with renewed savagery...
...arcordin~ to a 2001 article in the New Republic...
...Leahy scolded her...
...And Leahy's most appalling conduct is probably yet to come...
...Naturally, Pat Leahy was one of them...
...But has the spirit of Auschwitz really died...
...He threatened to use subpoena power against this publication in a clumsy attempt to torpedo the nomination of Theodore Olson as solicitor general (Olson was a lawyer for and contributor to the magazine in the 1990s...
...Judiciary committee staffers fear that he will make his swan song as a senator obstructing George Bush's Supreme Court nominees...
...Those weapons - freely conceded source of all the troubles of the world...
...she said to Leahy...
...Leahy is the classic thin-skinned bully...
...So when the Vermont senator affably approached Dick Cheney on the Senate floor last June-just a short time after smearing Cheney as a Halliburton-collaborat ing war profiteer-he expected the vice president to stop and talk with him...
...of course, a pretext to rationalize anti-Semitism...
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...This was typical Leahy-playing dumb after get ting caught out in a flaky leftist lunge...
...Fa.AME Facts and Logic About the Middle East PO...
...Leahy is the Deadhead preaching gentleness who is not at all gentle himself...
...And he's a fervent Grateful lead fan, lie to[lowed the Grateful Dead faithfully to the end once bringing Jerry Garcia to the Senate dining room...
...This could quickly escalate to engulf and bring destruction to much of the Middle East...
...There will be no second HolocaustNEVER AGAIN...
...There will be no Arabs by the "brutal Israeli occupiers," - except in the Moslem countries...
...He can dish it out but he can't take it...
...Whatever the committee wants is fine with me...
...He said he would not say a prayer and ripped into us...
...This is not a time to be personal on these- things...
...mayor Marion Barry once called Leahy, has never had to grow up, say observers...
...them secretly hoping perhaps that Israel, that sh..ty little country, Spirit of genocide: The Auschwitz spirit of 65 years ago that will indeed be wiped from the face of the earth...
...Two or three such weapons, placed on the narrow coastal corridor of the country, would be the end of the Jewish state...
...He told Cheney that he resented the Republicans' description of him as a "bad Catholic" for sabotaging the judicial nominations of several Catholic pro-life judges...
...He gives as an example of Leahy upending Democrats the odd case of the senator's support of a gun bill provision in 2004 that gave retired police officers the right to carry a concealed weapon in any state before he leaps...
...As a measure of the low regard for Leahy on the Hill and across the country, the flap produced little to no backlash for Cheney, who happily acknowledged it, telling Fox News he felt better for having told Leahy off...
...lie's been here since 1974 and done almost nothing...
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...Though a self-styled First Amendment advocate and privacy champion, Leahy is an ends-justify-the-means revolutionary who has used his presence on the Judiciary Committee as an occasion to abuse the rights of conservatives...
...His head would turn red," said a staffer...
...The resolve was "Never Again...
...to have been eradicated, but occasionally - decades later - some of The goal of virtually all of them is the destruction of Israel...
...So many people on both sides of the aisle loved that," says another Hill rat...
...Cheney didn't...
...1 don't do this lightly...
...He said, `You have done an unforgivable thing,' and told me to sit down," says List...
...Best estimates are that in Auschwitz-Birkenau alone, over 1.5 million people, most of them Jews from many countries of Europe, were killed and burned...
...Leahy voted to table every single one...
...And I said, `Are you going to sit down?' And he said he wouldn't sit down...
...influence that has led some Verniontcrs to nickname hint the "Senator from IIollvwood:' 1 le is something of an expert on cameras...
...In a textbook example of incursion upon the First Amendment rights of the press, he demanded that TAS "provide copies of the internal audit, board books and minutes...
...Capitol Hill staffers, who have long wished to curse Leahy out themselves, privately cheered Cheney's profane riposte...
...He hung Kennedy and the Dems out to dry...
...Leahy, meanwhile, seethed...
...Staffers notice that he can't lead but he can obstruct...
...The destructive bare-knuckled leftism Leahy practices on the Hill is of a piece with this 1960s mindset...
...Leahy, turning beet red, contin twd to bicker with Feinstein in a private room...
...By Democrats...
...Those who peddle anti-Semitism under the guise of anti-Israelism and those who advocate to dismember Israel and fatally weaken it so as to make it defenseless, better think again...
...once and for all...
...Conversely, he can fall into 1960sstyle alarmism of the most risible sort...
...During his short tenure (2001-'02) as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Leahy was impossible, say committee staffers...
...Leahy angrily asked Sessions why he had to raise the matter publicly...
...Usually Leahy makes sure to spar with people who can't fight back, such as nominated judges who must feign civility towards him and endure mistreatment...
...Nobody here was surprised that Cheney told Leahy to go f-k himself," says a Senate staffer, noting the bipartisan catharsis the contretemps induced...
...He talks endlessly at the beginning of markups and reads whatever extremist liberal stuff that is put in front of hint by his staff...
...Don't speak of annoyance...
...Leahy is perhaps known more for his avocations than legislation...
...He just walked out the door...
...Ethel List, former president of Vermont Right to Life, recalls Leahy demanding that she "sit down" so that he could lecture her about writing a letter about his pro-abortion voting record to his mom-a churchgoer List would see at Catholic masses in Vermont...
...He's never had a real job,' says a Judiciary Committee staffer...
...Incoming leg islative direc tors for Orrin Hatch would patronizingly assu111e that L(::1111' n(11•:S\'"I' PUT :111 , childish things casik...
...Blood libel, the scandalous slander that Jews use the blood of The Europeans don't care about the more than a million blacks Christians or Moslems for ritual purposes, mostly to bake their who were killed and continue to be killed in the Congo, the matzot, is circulating freely and widely believed...
...Sixty years ago, the death camp of Auschwitz was liberated...
...But that proved ineffectual too...
...I never gave it thought one way or the other...
...Ask a judiciary committee staffer about Leahy and he will automatically mention the time "Leahy made Dianne Feinstein cry" after she tried to add some California judgeships to a Justice Department bill he was considering...
...At the bottom of the letter which comically showed that even when demanding documents protected under the First Amendment he can't resist two facedness-he scrawled "All the best" to this magazine's editor in chief...
...Perhaps no one is more authoritarian than an anti-authority activist from the 1960s who acquires some...
...He's given to making • airy...
...Staffers could sense trouble by the color of his bald pate...
...We hate Leahy so much," ~,: vs a Republican Judiciary Committee staffer, "but Democrats hate having to deal with Leahy too...
...whoever they replaced lacked the proper finesse to work with Leahy's staff but would quickly conclude that "it wasn't their predecessors' fault...
...It is not going to sacrifice itself on the altar of world opinion...
...lie remains tenaciously attached to the 1960s ideology of his y• outh...
...To make matters worse, Leahy's staff embodies the boss's worst tenden cies...
...Print the "cycle of violence," and the building and broadcast media in virtually all second Holocaust-NEVER AGAIN...
...Belgium, the Netherlands, but also Britain, Germany and the Blood libel revisited: In medicine, certain diseases are believed Scandinavian countries - have substantial Moslem populations...
...Never enough...
...By now, most European nations - prominently France, as long as somebody else does the dirty work...
...number of Grateful Dead concerts he attended...
...Was he disciplined or (at least in the case of Iran) have one purpose only, namely the removed by his government for this obscene outburst...
...Cheney then stopped and reminded Leahy of his wild charges tarring him and Halliburton...
...The world thought that they find a receptive audience in much of the European public, a anti-Semitism, the horrible disease that had unleashed the public whose grandfathers were the perpetrator generation that Holocaust and its six million Jewish victims, had been overcome killed six million Jews...
...I was kind of shocked to hear that kind of language on the floor," he said, which only generated more chuckles amongst Hill staffers as they 22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR April 2005 have witnessed Leahy engage in plenty of foulmouthed attacks himself...
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...And so is Adolf Hitler's Darfur province in Sudan, and the hundred thousand killed by Mein Kampf their Arab fellow citizens...
...Leahy childishly called out to him as he walked away...
...I have tried and I have tried and I have tried, and now I fight...
...Over 60 per cent of those polled in Europe assert that Israel...
...We have virtually no overhead...
...He completely lost it with us," says Mary Hahn Beerworth of Vermont Right to Life...
...For over 30 years...
...Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regarding developments in the Middle East and exposing false propaganda that might harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area of the world...
...He is the revolutionary raging against what he imagines is a pitiless conservative establishment, even as his own ruthlessness dwarfs that of his perceived establishment opponents...
...But he has no positive agenda...
...He doesn't know how to handlecriticism;'says Beervorth...
...But the virus of hatred that demonized Jews and Can the barely disguised enmity toward Israel be explained by that herded them to their deaths has anything other than anti-Semitism...
...Only when until the ACLU and New York Times columnist Bill Safire rebuked Leahy for trying to take a vacuum into an editorial office did the threats stop...
...It makes no difference to me...
...He's a swine," says one judge who has come before Leahy in a Judiciary Committee hearing...
...90 The Holocaust: Sixty Years Later Has the spirit of Auschwitz been revived...
...What Leahy lacks in intelligence-former Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers joked that "he is the intellectual equal of Dan Quayle"-he makes up for in willfulness...
...Israelis, the alleged mistreatment of the acceptable openly to proclaim Jew-hatred better think again...
...This staffer observes that Leahy occasionally likes to upend fellow Democrats...
...There are the crocodile tears over the Since the Holocaust and since the Those who peddle anti-Semitism alleged "occupation of Arab land" by the defeat of the Nazis, it is no longer under the guise of anti-Israelism...
...Having committed unleashed genocide in Europe did not perish with the Nazis...
...The somnolent Vermont press corps could not care less...
...lie garnered a bit part in the movie Ba[mxan and Robin thanks to his friends in the entertainment industry...
...Should Leahy make this his last stand, Dick Cheney will get a chance to shaft him again...
...He collects Batman comic books and dresses up like Batman on Halloween...
...The French ambassador to Great the teeth with the most advanced weapons, feverishly pursue the Britain referred to Israel as "that sh..ty little country" being the holy grail of nuclear armaments...
...The result was that the amendment fell on a 9-9 vote...
...He doesn't have a major piece of legislation to his name...
...and all notes and records of Board discussions of the audit...
...revived and is again in full flourish...
...PRO-LIFERS IN VERMONT vividly remember the time Leahy harangued their unassuming group in his Senate office when they dropped by to pray with him during a trip to Washington for the March for Life many years ago...
...After TAS ignored the letter, Leahy asked again and warned that "should that request be declined, the committee as a whole should take appropriate action to obtain the information...
...As the Hill newspaper reports, the nuclear option has been invoked before...
...No, it's only Israel that captures the But in the "civilized" countries of Europe, anti-Semitism is attention of the world and of the United Nations, in which the vast disguised as the socially acceptable enmity toward Israel, the state majority of its Resolutions deal with the purported misdeeds of of the Jews...
...ferry's Icc Cream...
...Under this senatorial maneuver the presiding officer of the Senate, which is the vice president, can rule that judicial nominations only need a simple majority and not a supermajority...
...The "rinky-dink" senator from Vermont, as exWashington, D.C...
...civil unions bill, Leahy said, "My family has been in Vermont since 1850, and I've never been more proud than I am tonight...
...calling himself the "c_ybersenator...
...In 1975, Walter Mondale and a group of liberal senators tried to use it to end conservative filibusters of their legislation...
...These staffers-not just Republicans but also some Democrats-describe Leahy as Howard Metzenbaum with a smile, a vicious pol who tries to pass himself off as a genial Vermont hayseed...
...Politicos in Washington struggle to answer the question...
...Still bitter over his encounter with Cheney, Leahy had himself seated prominently in the front viewing section at the vice presidential debate later last fall...
...It was a moment of memorable comeuppance for a famously two-faced Senate thug...
...So I said, `I'm not going to sit down either and be talked down to.' I was really kind of shocked...
...The Czarist hundreds of thousands that were killed in Uganda and in Rwanda, forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is now a best seller in the over two million farmers who were driven off their land in virtually all Moslem countries...
...he has safely resided in the Senate and exploited his status as a politician guaranteed re-election back home no matter how many childish tantrums he throws...
...It is the first Holocaust, or at least having stood by mostly approvingly, alive and well in many parts of the world, in which Adolf Hitler is they now countenance with equanimity a second Holocaust, just still a hero...
...But all that is hypocrisy, anti-Semitic propaganda, in the same vein as that of the Nazis...
...I obviously don't like to annoy my chairman...
...BY GEORGE NEUMAYR ATRICK J. LEAHY had grown accustomed to grinning at his victim after sticking a knife in his back...
...After Leahy dropped "So help you, God" from the oaths he would administer, Senator Jeff Sessions (whom Leahy had earlier blocked as a judicial nominee) objected...
...inane tributes to progress as • understood by ideologues from that time period...
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