A very mad NJ congressman...Bill Pascrell sounds off.

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http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=9227

“It’s Orwellian,” Pascrell said. “You have no legislature today. The legislative branch of government is not living up to its responsibility under the Constitution of the United States. We do not have a checks-and-balances system.”"

BUSH’S ‘BIZARRE’ FOREIGN POLICY

With the second anniversary approaching of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, the congressman, who voted in favor of the war, had serious concerns about the state of the nation’s foreign affairs.

“We can’t be fighting everybody in every place. We seem to be producing more terrorists because of that foreign policy,” Pascrell said. “The administration’s foreign policy is bizarre.”
“‘Conquer the world for freedom,’” Pascrell said. “It’s an oxymoron.”

While Pascrell said that deposing Saddam Hussein was “a great thing,” he feared that the absence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, Bush’s justification for military action in Iraq, has damaged the United States’ credibility with other foreign powers.

“We were wrong about our reasons for going into Iraq. I don’t know if anyone is going to believe us again,” he said.

And his remarks on how the party needs to fight. I love his righteous anger.
SNIP..."“In August, after the Democratic National Convention, on a false high, not knowing what would say to those un-American swift boat operators.”

Pascrell said he would have preferred the candidate to “take off his jacket and say, ‘you sons of guns. I was in battle.’”
“Instead, he tried to finesse it,” Pascrell said.

But as the Democratic Party moves forward led by the presidential-primary candidate Pascrell did not endorse — new Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean — the congressman said he wants his party to not only step up its fight with the GOP, but also include issues typically regarded as Republican...."