…about the nation as a whole and the constituents of these elected officials when this is somehow considered acceptable?
First up, MENSA candidate and former judge, Hank Johnson:
Johnson: “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
You fear should be that your constituents will get tired of you making them look like idiots for electing you.
This is Congressman Johnson’s second appearance here at Taxes, Stupidity, and Death. He first caught my attention when he took his cue from Maureen Dowd and divined a racist intent from “You Lie!” as shouted by Congressman Joe Wilson in response to a lying President in the act of lying to him.
I think my…uhhh….I.Q….uhhh…dropped….uhhhh…a hundred points…uhhh… listening to that. While I am a believer in people stretching themselves and going beyond their given abilities, but I’m not convinced that Congress is the place to do that. I’m not worried about the breakables. I’m worried about them breaking the country.
I guess he thinks people are less offended by stupidity than they are by people who are not willing to passively accept liars lying to them. He’s wrong. I’m not pleased that some village in Georgia wasn’t content to be missing their idiot; they had to force him upon us.
That brings me to the other fifteen minute seekers.
Meet Congressman Phil Hare, a Democratic Socialist from Illinois. Phil suffers from a common malady among Democrats these days. Phil sees something that he perceives as an injustice, and believes that only government can solve the problem, and if a trifling thing like the Constitution gets in the way of his solution, well he doesn’t care about that. And when caught in an apparent lie (I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. He might be an Evelyn Woods champion speed reader, but I doubt it.), he does what any Democrat Socialist does when they don’t have SEIU members handy to beat up a constituent who asks uncomfortable questions and keeps pressing. [And Rutherford, before you say “But the Constituent called him a liar!”, tell me why that’s different than these elected officials calling constituents who disagree with them “Racists” and “Teabaggers”? The real problem is that constituents are remembering that these officials work for them, no matter how hard Congress keeps trying to reverse the trend with unsustainable debt.]
Neither of these will ever be confused with likes of a Henry Clay or John Quincy Adams.
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The thing that bothers me the most about Hammerhead Hank is that he literally cannot blink while he is speaking. I guess that overtaxes his brain or something. But, it is hilarious.
Phil Hare spoke for most Democrats when he said that he did not care about the Constitution. That is the attitude that most of them have. They just want to “do good” as they perceive it, without regard for what the rule of law says about how we may and may not go about doing that. That is a problem!
With regard to Henry Johnson, he is a walking testament for why we should restore literacy qualifications for voting. He is absolutely frightening when you stop to think that this man, and others just as clear thinking, are making the decisions that are leading our nation to ruin.
Rutherford, you’re being led by morons.
Congratulations, asshole. Now, get your stinkin’ commie ass outta my country.
You must have friggin’ telepathy, or perhaps you’re lurking outside my window. You wrote your comment exactly as I was writing mine.
Should I be scared Dick? You wouldn’t attack a guy on Good Friday would you? 😉
Look, I think the “capsizing Guam” is as funny as the next guy but you GOPhers sure are having a good run with it. I’ve had it posted to my comments section and I think I’ve seen it on at least two other blogs besides yours. When Chris Matthews features it in his “side show” maybe it ought to occur to you that this is hilarious (and embarrassing) on a bi-partisan basis.
Paul, I don’t know what video you were watching but I saw Hank blink lots of times. You would have been on more accurate ground to make the more vulgar but obvious inference that the dude appears stoned. Seriously, he seems to either be “slow” or on something.
As for the question directed at me: I believe the elected officials are calling folks with offensive rhetoric, racists. The dumbass Tea Party members were the first to call themselves teabaggers so no harm, no foul there. And this notion that libs send thugs to beat people up is as preposterous as the claim that all political violence is committed by right wing nutjobs.
And this notion that libs send thugs to beat people up is as preposterous as the claim that all political violence is committed by right wing nutjobs.
I’m sure Kenneth Gladney will be soooooo relieved.
Rutherford, you have no reason to be afraid of me, unless a revolution occurs, then you’re probably fucked.