I realize it's a heavy news day, what with fucking proper fucking booming and all, but I look forward to researching the scummiest Republicans ever on Fridays. It's a good outlet for stress, even though it gives me a freaking headache.
What the hell is wrong with ... is a community-driven diary series that seeks to make a complete mockery of the very worst of all Republican operatives, both high-level and low-level. Granted, that's totally easy to do, but I will look at the week's biggest fuck-ups and happily rip them to metaphorical shreds, each and every Friday. Come join in the fun!
I'm always taking creative suggestions, so don't hold back. :)
Btw, I wrote about Ronald Reagan last week but never published it because of that excellent e-coli I had. Also, Reagan is hella boring, as it turns out.
STEVE. KING. IS. A. DOUCHEBAG!
... Dude, you would NOT EVEN BELIEVE how many illegals we have to deal with in Iowa!
Seriously, this guy personifies everything about the word "douchebag". If you look up "douchebag" in the dictionary, this is what it says:
Slang Dictionary
douche bag definition
1. n.
a wretched and disgusting person. (Rude and derogatory.) : Don't be a douche bag. Pick up your things and go home, Chuck.
2. n.
United States congressman Steve King (R-IA, 5th district)
Everything that could possibly be wrong with this guy is, in fact, wrong with this guy. As Al Franken would say, let's get to some examples. And there are examples and examples and examples.
Steve King is a really righteous Catholic (with them teabaggers)
The crowd cheered as Hoekstra — who is leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan — walked out and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) walked in.
"I just came down here," said King, "so I could say to you, God bless you."
"God bless you!" shouted one activist.
"We’re here whenever you need us!" said another activist, patting King on the back.
"You are the awesome American people," said King. "If I could start a country with a bunch of people, they’d be the folks who were standing with us the last few days. Let’s hope we don’t have to do that! Let’s beat that other side to a pulp! Let’s chase them down. There’s going to be a reckoning!"
and a truly hateful homophobe
King relayed an anecdote that outlined his solution for the problem of workplace discrimination:
"And [State Sen. Jerry Behn] said, 'let me ask you a question. Am I heterosexual or am I homosexual?' And they looked him up and down, actually they should have known, but they said, 'We don't know.' And he said, 'Exactly, my point. If you don't project it, if you don't advertise it, how would anyone know to discriminate against you?' And that's at the basis of this. So if people wear their sexuality on their sleeve and then they want to bring litigation against someone that they would point their finger at and say, 'You discriminate.'
The legislation, King said, would serve as "entrapment that is legalized by the ENDA act," which would unfairly impact conservative businesses and organizations.
King laid out a potential scenario to back up his theory:
"I can imagine someone coming in and interviewing one day in man's clothes and come back the next day and apply for a job in woman's clothes and then setting up a lawsuit in a sting operation that could harass especially our religious organizations, but anybody, anybody that's operating in a responsible fashion."
and a motherfucking racist
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has released a statement explaining why he opposed a House measure to erect a plaque in the Capitol Visitors Center, recognizing the history of slave labor in the construction of the Capitol. King was the only one to vote "No," and it passed by a 399-1 margin.
King says that he "opposed yet another bill to erect another monument to slavery," because Democrats had used it as a bargaining chip with Republicans who wanted to secure the depiction of the words "In God We Trust" in the Visitors Center -- that America's Judeo-Christian heritage was being held hostage.
and a piece-of-shit-c*nt xenophobe
An Iowa Republican congressman on Monday defended his prediction that terrorists would celebrate if Democrat Barack Obama were elected president, despite a rebuke from aides to John McCain, the GOP's apparent presidential nominee.
"(Obama will) certainly be viewed as a savior for them," Rep. Steve King told The Associated Press. "That's why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him."
King said his offices have been bombarded with calls — positive and negative — since he said Friday that al-Qaida "would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror."
and a motherfucking xenophobic piece-of-shit-c*nt bigot
Moronic Rep. Steve King (R-IA) says that since Rep. Raul Grijalva is calling for a boycott of his own state, the U.S. has "already ceded" his district to Mexico.
and a motherfucking stupid racist piece-of-shit-c*nt xenophobic bigot racist dickweed
King said Thursday, "we can't have the presumption on the part of the President of the United States or the Attorney General that the law enforcement officers in Arizona are motivated by something other than race. Maybe they're motivated to support the rule of law. Couldn't we presume that that's it?"
King assailed "the effort to go down and make race the issue when it is law enforcement that is the problem and that Federal immigration law that's not being adequately enforced is the problem" as well as the "President's supposition that a mother and her daughter would be perhaps of the wrong skin tone and they would be picked up and asked for their identification because they went out to get some ice cream."
The King took it to someplace else, saying that "it seems the President has an inclination to engage in these kinds of things. When he had an Irish cop and a black professor, who did he side with? He jumped to a conclusion without having heard the facts, and he ended up having to have a beer summit."
King said that "maybe we could have a summit with Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the South Lawn of the White House, and they could sit down at the picnic table together and discuss these things so that all of the resources of the Federal Government don't have to be tied up in knots on these suppositions for the unfounded presumption that there is something unconstitutional about Arizona law or something that violates Federal statute."
and empathizes with a killer
Representative Steven A. King, Republican of Iowa, has drawn criticism in recent days after news reports indicated that he expressed "empathy" for Andrew Joseph Stack III, the disgruntled computer engineer who crashed a small plane into an office building last week, killing himself and an employee of the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Stack left behind a rambling suicide note that expressed anger at the I.R.S., which had 190 employees in the building.
and a major asshole
"The definition for sexual orientation was defined by one of the principal authors, Tammy Baldwin of Madison, Wisconsin, as being either heterosexual or homosexual. Well, so within that definition, though, of sexual orientation by the American Psychological Association you've got a whole list of proclivities — they call them paraphilias — and in that list, among them are pedophiles.
"And so I don't want special protective status for a pedophile when a regular person would get less — lesser protection under this law. ... This sets up sacred cows in this legislation. So some people are protected more than others in this society."
King was so concerned about that possibility that he sought to amend the bill to specifically exclude pedophiles.
and hates those cute furry creatures
"The Humane Society of the United States is a political machine masquerading as an umbrella organization for local humane societies," King said. "HSUS bills itself as an animal care organization but it spends less than 1% of its $100 million annual budget on direct animal care. Instead, HSUS solicits money from well-intentioned but often uninformed animal lovers and uses these donations to lobby Congress for an anti-meat, anti-animal agriculture agenda. HSUS is run by vegetarians with an agenda whose goal is to take meat off everyone's table in America."
and a fun little revolutionary
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is calling for a new procedural solution to stop the health care bill: Have an angry mob of citizens storm Washington and prevent Congress from acting, in imitation of the Velvet Revolution that overthrew communist rule in Czechoslovakia!
The Huffington Post interviewed King after his speech at today's "Code Red" anti-health care bill rally, a speech in which he called upon the crowd to "Storm this city, fill up Washington D.C., jam this capital so they can't move."
and deeply confused
At his third-annual Defenders of Freedom dinner in Sergeant Bluff, just south of Sioux City in northwest Iowa, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, said supporters of abortion rights have pinned their case on the belief government shouldn’t tell women what to do with their bodies.
Now, King notes, many of those same liberals are supporting mandatory health insurance, which will force people to get health care plans they may not want for their bodies.
and, sadly, an ambitious toadie.
You may have heard the delegates at the Republican Party of Iowa’s fifth district convention passed a resolution urging Congressman Steve King (R-Kiron, Iowa) to run for president in 2012. In a move that could fuel that kind of speculation, King campaigned in New Hampshire over the weekend for a Republican candidate for congress.
I just scratched the surface with this guy, but my headache is now reverberating throughout my entire body and I think I need to lie down.
What I said earlier about this being stress relief? Yeah, that was a lie.
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UPDATE (duh - h/t operculum): Wanna get King's ass OUT of Congress, once and for all? Then you can do the following:
Donate to Matt Campbell
or Mike Denklau
or ActBlue's IA-05 Democratic Nominee Fund.
We're all Iowans now.