Steve Benen says:
Once in a while, a politician drops the pretense and lets his true colors come through. In this brief interview, Dick Armey, perhaps best known for calling his then-colleague Barney Frank "Barney Fag," showed just what he's made of, before a national television audience.
Here’s the silver-tongued former House Majority Leader on Hardball, debating Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief of Salon.com:
Wow talk about a sense of entitlement. These people aren't
even fit to take out in public and share a meal. Yet they are
all over the TV with that same strange dripping contempt that
feels free to insult anyone or anything. Yet ask a simple question
and they throw up their hands and shriek. I'd love to see
them on food stamps and public transportation. Dick f****** Armey.
eesshhh.
As someone once wrote, the only possible appropriate posture
for such a creature as Dick Armey is contrition and silence.