RICHARD CLARKE on the Daily Show: Which Senator Was He Talking About?

[liberalpragmatist]

For those who didn't catch it, Clarke said at a Washington restaurant, a prominent Republican Senator, a committee chairman, leaned him and told him Bushco. were liars. My guess is it was either Dick Lugar (Ind), the Foreign Relations Committee head, or John Warner (Va.), the Armed Services Committee Chairman.

Any thoughts?

[Mr_Spock]

1. The sound of a republican with common sense is so soothing though

No matter who said it.

[Cha]

8. That's Funny and the thought that Richard Clarke

said it on TV!! bushes are probably poppin' malox! }(

Which reminds..speaking of Clarke..I wonder what ever happened to Paul O'Neill after he wrote that book.."The Price Of Loyalty"?

Shouldn't he be out there campaigning against bush? lol!

[kskiska]

10. O'Neill didn't write the book.

Suskind did. O'Neill is probably taking that long road trip with his wife he had planned when he got pressured into taking that crummy job.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Hagel maybe?

[DjTj]

3. Why are those your guesses?

...I don't have particular insight on this, but I guess the other options would be:

Veterans Affairs: Arlen Specter
Intelligence: Pat Roberts

[liberalpragmatist]

7. Well, they've both been quite critical in public of the administration

Relatively so, at least. And their specialties, foreign affairs and armed services seem to fit the bill well. But you're right, the other two would work too, perhaps Pat Roberts in intelligence.

[Kenneth ken]

4. and Clarke leaned back

toward the Senator, and said, "No fooling, half-wit. About time you woke up to the obvious."

[Justice]

5. Clarke said the senator wouldn't say it on national TV because he

wanted to still get the white house christmas card.

[jdj]

6. I just don't think it was Warner.

He just about air-blew the pukes during the Abu Ghraib hearings.

[Dudley_DUright]

9. My guess is Lugar

His is also quoted on one of the sabbath gasbags shows that Bushco's handling of Iraq was "incompetent".

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar says the failure of the administration to spend more than about five per cent of the $US18-billion Congress had allocated for reconstruction amounted to incompetence.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1203141.htm

[fujiyama]

11. That sounds most likely

Lugar and Hagel have both been very critical of the handling. At times moreso than some democrats.

[JI7]

12. yes, Lugar or Warner

[kodi]

13. lugar. he thinks bush is an idiot and cheney a thief

lugar is chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and he knows what a disaster bush has been to the security of the country.