Steve King

You know, I am working on something with LisB, so I was going to skip a blog today.

But it is exactly at those times that I come across something so awesome that it is hard to just skip over it and go on to other things....

There comes a time when courage, true courage is demonstrated.

Like when Mr. Smith stands for a full 20 hours or something and faints almost dead away in an attempt to stop Democratic taxing and spending and aiding those Brits in the United States Senate.

Or when Donald M. Fraser stood up in the House of Representatives in August of 1964 and voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which ended up being equivalent to a Declaration of War against North Vietnam.  One of only three, I believe to vote against a charade that would lead to the death of 58,000 American Soldiers, Hundreds of Thousands Vietnamese and ultimately the election of Nixon in 1968.  Still trying to figure out which of these was the worst outcome of that vote.  Never mind, all of it really was worst when you think about it.

Well, the House held a vote for a resolution:

111-153
DIRECTING THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL TO PLACE A MARKER IN EMANCIPATION HALL IN THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER WHICH ACKNOWLEDGES THE ROLE THAT SLAVE LABOR PLAYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/R?cp111:FLD010:@1(hr153)

Yup. You just cannot get more controversial than this.

I mean, they are still contending that this country fostered slavery for some four score and seven years or so following the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

I mean, next they will be saying that w lied us into a war, that billowing wads of smoke into the atmosphere causes global warming and that Liberace was gay.

And I mean, 'they' are going to actually use taxpayer dollars to erect a 'marker' to commemorate the work performed by these so-called 'slaves'.

But there is one man who stood up for life, liberty and the pursuit of property. 

One man who feels that those thousands of taxpayer dollars could be better put to use.  Perhaps wrapping CEO's in better quality suits so that they can better represent America in their search for slave labor all around the world.

Or cutting the taxes for people who have reached the highest caste in our economic system today.

Or perhaps taking a cue from Ashcroft and covering up more boobs that just seem to hang out all over the place at our Nation's Capitol.

And who exactly is this great man, this man man enough to stand up to a system of waste?

Well there is this wonderful guy in the House of Representatives. His name is Steven King.

When he is not writing all those great American Novels, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is representing my neighboring state.

And he has been the single vote against the communist resolution I cited above.

King has a long history of opposing resolutions he considers frivolous; in 2007, however, he introduced a resolution "recognizing the importance of Christians and the Christian faith."

A King spokesman did not immediately return a call. King later explained his position in a statement:

"In the Capitol Visitor's Center, we agreed to change the name of the Great Hall - which honored the immigrants that came legally to America - to Emancipation Hall to honor the 645,000 slaves and their descendants who were brought to the United States more than two centuries ago.

"Last night I opposed yet another bill to erect another monument to slavery because it was used as a bargaining chip to allow for the actual depiction of 'In God We Trust' in the CVC. The Architect of the Capitol and liberal activists opposed every reference to America's Christian heritage, even to the extent of scrubbing 'In God We Trust' from the depiction of the actual Speaker's chair in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"This is just the latest example of a several year effort by liberals in Congress to scrub references to America's Christian heritage from our nation's Capitol. Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/rep-steve-king-lone-vote_n_227866.html

If this man does not stand up for Christian slave owners, I mean who will?