Steve King's my Rep - I'm so proud
Today's whine from Iowa Congressman Steve King (that Obama using his middle name is "bizarre") is only the most recent display of his willful ignorance. A few other choice tidbits:
• "A soldier, man or woman, could get drunk in Bangkok, wake up in the morning and be married, as will happen sometimes in places like Las Vegas or Bangkok, be killed the next day, and the spouse who was a product of the evening's celebration would have then a right to claim access to come to the United States on a green card."
• When a bipartisan group of Iowa lawmakers wrote a letter asking for the National Guard chief to be a full member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, King said, "Representative Braley and all Democrats in the Iowa delegation do not support the troops and their mission. We will not be led to victory by those who have declared defeat."
• On Obama: "I don't want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name, whatever the religion of their father might have been .. I'll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States, I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does this look like to the world of Islam?... And I will tell you that if he IS elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al Qaida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th."
• He called Sen. Joe McCarthy a "Hero for America."
• On al-Zarqawi: "There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he's at. And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas."
• On Iraq: "My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, she's at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq."
• On Terry Schiavo: "She lives on her own, unassisted by machines. She was not dying, not in a coma and would not be near the end of her life now if it weren't for the barbaric torture of taking away her food and water that her husband, the man who said vows to protect her in sickness and health, has sentenced her to."
• He said what happened at Abu Ghraib was "What amounts to a hazing."
• He compared illegal immigrants to stray cats. At first they help by chasing mice, so people feed them. Then they have kittens, which are liked for their cuteness, but eventually the strays, fed by the people, end up getting lazy, just like illegal immigrants.
Last spring, I participated in one of his telephone town hall meetings. The only 2 subjects open for discussion: gay marriage and the wall along the Mexican border. We're in the middle of a war with Iraq that's killed thousands of Americans and Iraqis, we were creeping toward a major recession. He voted against SCHIP but supported wasting millions on our own version of the Berlin wall.
The state of Iowa went to Obama. My district re-elected Steve King. I live in hell.
• "A soldier, man or woman, could get drunk in Bangkok, wake up in the morning and be married, as will happen sometimes in places like Las Vegas or Bangkok, be killed the next day, and the spouse who was a product of the evening's celebration would have then a right to claim access to come to the United States on a green card."
• When a bipartisan group of Iowa lawmakers wrote a letter asking for the National Guard chief to be a full member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, King said, "Representative Braley and all Democrats in the Iowa delegation do not support the troops and their mission. We will not be led to victory by those who have declared defeat."
• On Obama: "I don't want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name, whatever the religion of their father might have been .. I'll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States, I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does this look like to the world of Islam?... And I will tell you that if he IS elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al Qaida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th."
• He called Sen. Joe McCarthy a "Hero for America."
• On al-Zarqawi: "There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he's at. And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas."
• On Iraq: "My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, she's at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq."
• On Terry Schiavo: "She lives on her own, unassisted by machines. She was not dying, not in a coma and would not be near the end of her life now if it weren't for the barbaric torture of taking away her food and water that her husband, the man who said vows to protect her in sickness and health, has sentenced her to."
• He said what happened at Abu Ghraib was "What amounts to a hazing."
• He compared illegal immigrants to stray cats. At first they help by chasing mice, so people feed them. Then they have kittens, which are liked for their cuteness, but eventually the strays, fed by the people, end up getting lazy, just like illegal immigrants.
Last spring, I participated in one of his telephone town hall meetings. The only 2 subjects open for discussion: gay marriage and the wall along the Mexican border. We're in the middle of a war with Iraq that's killed thousands of Americans and Iraqis, we were creeping toward a major recession. He voted against SCHIP but supported wasting millions on our own version of the Berlin wall.
The state of Iowa went to Obama. My district re-elected Steve King. I live in hell.
