I'm really beginning to believe that Steve King is some sort of performance artist, testing the world to see if anyone believes he's really as stupid as he seems.
Yesterday we had the babies in trash cans. Today we have his Palinesque mangling of the English language, or perhaps it was simply a Freudian slip. No this isn't much of a diary. It's a new year. I'm easing into it.
Rep. Steve King Boasts Of GOP Leaders' 'Mendacity'
OK nothing earth shattering about calling out someone's mendacity. Usually, it's not intended as a compliment or if it is intended as one, it's because that's the nicest thing you can say about someone which of course isn't saying much. Since King clearly thinks this is a positive, he also clearly doesn't understand what the word means. Paging Inigo Montoya....I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) literally accused the Republican leadership of the House of being a bunch of big old liars on the floor of the House last night. But that isn't exactly what he meant.
Truth hurts. Too bad he wasn't trying to tell it.
"As I deliberate and I listen to the gentleman from Tennessee, I have to make a point that when you challenge the mendacity of the leader there is an opportunity to make a motion to take the gentleman's words down, however many of the members are off on other endeavors and the leader and the speaker have established their integrity in their mendacity for years in this Congress and I don't think it can be challenged and those who do so are making aspersions by making wild accusations," King said.
Maybe he's still preoccupied looking for babies in trash cans. Meanwhile, he continues to make up nonsensical points about repealing the healthcare bill:
"Couldn't we then just, you know, set up our little Blackberry with an automatic send and wait for the fire alarm to go off and on the way down the steps to bail out of the burning house you could just click send, automatically they'd have to give you a policy so that your house could be rebuilt and -- if it's ever on fire," King said.
The trashcan babies are starting to make sense by comparison.
In other news, gotta love Anthony Weiner:
Weiner Mocks House GOP Oath Blunder: ‘We Violated The Constitution On Our Very First Day’
But this is my favorite. "Debating" ( and I use that term loosely considering the opposition) Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, Weiner asks:
Weiner shot back: "Are you surprised to learn, Congresswoman Bachmann, that we don't have a room filled with dimes?"
Ah ...good times.