Tom Feeney: “I just sat through a fairly extraordinary hour with a lot of criticism of the majority leader of the United States. And…”

“I just sat through a fairly extraordinary hour with a lot of criticism of the majority leader of the United States. And first thing I want to make clear that I am not here to question anybody's patriotism. I think we have 435 patriotic Members of this wonderful body, and we have got some delegates in addition to that that are patriotic. What I would say is that Lord Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain right before World War II, was a very patriotic Brit, but his policies were very foolish. And they took the free world into some very dangerous times, and we could have lost our freedom throughout the globe. Lady Thatcher said, as early as 1986, that terrorism thrives on appeasement, much like the problem with Lord Chamberlain's policy, not that he was unpatriotic, but his foolish policies actually encouraged and empowered the Nazis. The same is true, according to Lady Thatcher. And I would submit that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) and George W. Bush, our President, are the Churchills of our time when it comes to fighting the war on terror.”