Arkansas Blog: Armey times

You miss Dick Armey, don’t you? Armey was the House Republican leader, chief author of the 1994 Contract on America and owner of the vilest tongue in Washington: “Barney Fag,” he called Rep. Barney Frank. About Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in 1999, Armey said he would never have had a chance to resign because while he was lying in his own blood he would hear his wife muttering “How do I reload this damned thing?”

Armey is a Washington consultant and runs a conservative outfit called FreedomWorks. As of old, he is still warring with religious conservatives and stands at the fault line between social and economic conservatives. People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch reports on the latest Armey imbroglio with the religious right, this involving the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who wants President John McCain to appoint a “family czar,” and by reference Mike Huckabee. The old South Texas congressman has the mistaken notion that Perkins backed Huckabee for president, but he nevertheless has some insight into the former governor:

Says Armey: “[Perkins threw] his support behind Mike Huckabee, a candidate whose conservative credentials were anything but solid. By supporting a politician who governed in large part by taxing, regulating, and moralizing, he made his own declarations of conservatism subject to doubt.”

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Posted by: RLR | April 15, 2008 10:43 AM

Posted by: RLR | April 15, 2008 10:44 AM

One has to laugh or scream at the Republickers warm embrace of the term Czar... when the cold war they so bitterly profited from for decades is barely at room temperature these days..

Insinuation by name, war family... my my such values. Will they ever learn when you are at war everyone is losing? War in and of itself is failure... except for war profiteers like evangelical ministers and Haliburton etc..

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR | April 15, 2008 12:18 PM

Huckabuck as family czar. Lets take our family vacation at Hooters, I hear they give away free bibles and we can do dog-skinning afterwards.

E.S., recall it was the R-lickers who first promoted a Drug Czar. Now that worked out real well didn't it.
They just did away with the illicit drug trade.

Posted by: eLwood | April 15, 2008 01:04 PM

Indeed Elwood.. it looks like the moment both fascism and communism dropped off the brow beating neocon radar.. the neocons discovered there was nothing holding them back from becoming their own blend of both anti Democracy ideals.

When Pryor and all republicans write of Habeas Corpus and the Fourth amendment while allowing genocidal robber baron wars with unabated torture... America gives up all the high ground our grandfathers fought so hard to keep... Will it be to late when enough Americans realize these losses greatly diminish, if not completely negate, all other liberties, such as free speech, trial by peers, and right to keep and bear arms etc?

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR | April 15, 2008 01:45 PM

There's nothing like a CZAR to take complete control of every woman's womb. Can't you see their vision.
By the time of the first menses a woman's womb will be under the direct control of Huckabee, The Family Czar.

We have moved to lows that Herr Himmler would be proud.

Altes of Ft. Baptist could put in an amendment to Ark's Family Management Plan and stipulate that every 3rd black or hispanic child
be aborted.
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Posted by: eLwood | April 15, 2008 04:00 PM

Armey....you failed to mention the sexual harassment charges made against by some of his students.

Posted by: Cato | April 15, 2008 06:06 PM

Here, Cato, enjoy what the late Molly Ivins said about the "bitter breed"-

Hail and farewell to two of the meanest guys ever to serve in the U.S. Congress -- Senator Phil Gramm and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both from Texas. What a barrel of knee-slapping fun they have been. As each winds up his final year in office, we could have a fine time recalling their Meanest Moments: The side-splitting occasion when Armey referred to Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts as "Barney Fag." The rib-tickling time Gramm wanted to deny food stamps to elderly legal immigrants on the splendid grounds that extending aid would only foster dependency, thereby incicting "a new personal tragedy on the most vulnerable among us."

Armey and Gramm represent the last of a certain style of antigovernment politician.
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Armey and Gramm's joint retirement, along with that of Jesse Helms, marks the end of a particularly nasty kind of politics."

Hmmm. Too bad Ms.Molly couldn't have lived longer. She hadn't seen nothing.
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Posted by: eLwood | April 15, 2008 06:40 PM

She lived long enough to know that last statement, sadly, was far from true. Her last book Bill Of Wrongs, demonstrates so well.

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR | April 15, 2008 06:59 PM

"Armey and Gramm's joint retirement, along with that of Jesse Helms, marks the end of a particularly nasty kind of politics." eL

I guess Cheney didn't get the word when he told Patrick Leahey to "go f*** himself." Maybe he just forgot...

Posted by: Perplexed | April 15, 2008 07:08 PM

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