It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented its original profile of the four term U.S. House Representative for Illinois’ 16th Congressional District, Adam Kinzinger, who not only bought into the Center for Medical Progress’ bogus “sting” video that illegally taped a Planned Parenthood executive, comparing the fraudulent footage to concentration Camp experiments on conservative talk radio. And it’s part of that sort of reaction that the GOP had that served as a stochastic terror trigger to send a man named Robert Lewis Dear over the edge, and to shoot up a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. But Kinzinger wasn’t satisfied with the violence his party incited, not at all. During the five hour siege that left three people dead, and many others hospitalized or pinned inside the building, Adam Kinzinger was live on CNN, and said he expected an apology from Planned Parenthood if it turned out they were not the intended target of the shooter. We’ll repeat that… Kinzinger demanded an apology from the organization attacked while there was still gunfire being heard, and an active shooter was still attacking them. Kinzinger has never apologized for his remarks. His voting record also is highly conservative across the board, and not surprisingly, very much so on abortion rights.
And now, the brutally depressing part… in spite of all members of Congress having a pathetically low approval rating, Adam Kinzinger’s heartless comments about victims of a mass shooting while they were still laid up in a hospital, and that his district only has a +4 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, Kinzinger still won re-election in 2016 with 70% of the vote.
As far as the Congressman’s voting record goes…
- February 16th, 2017: Kinzinger votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
- March 16th, 2017: Adam Kinzinger votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge’s written order. We feel safer already.
- March 28th, 2017: Rep. Kinzinger votes for SJ Res 34, which allowed internet providers to sell the data information of their customers’ internet usage to businesses. Well, so much for privacy.
- May 4th, 2017: Kinzinger votes for the GOP’s healthcare plan, that would allow 24,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partem depression, and sexual assault as “pre-existing conditions”. Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Kinzinger would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
Currently, Adam Kinzinger cannot make up his mind as to whether or not he wants to be chained to the embarrassing presidency of Donald Trump. One minute, and he’s playing head cheerleader when Trump decides to launch attacks on a Syrian airfield that really did little else but minor property damage and delaying some flights, and the next, he’s defending the appointment of Robert Mueller to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 elections.
What we’re guessing this means is he really bares no loyalty to the White House, and depending on Trump’s poll numbers at the time, he’ll alternate his response accordingly to save his own political hide.
One Year Ago, May 30th, 2016: Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Two Years Ago, May 30th, 2015: Michael Peroutka (MD)