It was in 2016, 2017, and 2018, 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, or that Kinzinger that he decided to send out a mailer of him taking a photo with some of his constituents which he used to make an ad mailer touting his pro-life record without their consent… his district only has a +4 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index… Kinzinger still won re-election in 2018 with 59% of the vote. Thus, his constituents have had to put up with representation like this during his current term:
- February 28th, 2019: Adam Kinzinger votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Kinzinger votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
Adam Kinzinger has also ended up in a controversy because he criticized Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for removing National Guard troops from the U.S./Mexico border that were requested to be sent there by Donald Trump. Kinzinger is a reservist, and could face discipline for publicly criticizing his own orders to stand down. Of course, he probably only made the statement in the first place to win the approval of Trump, and hope it would allow him to be named Air Force Secretary. Since Donald Trump already nominates the most unqualified people to postiions of power. So we’ll have to watch and see if Trump looks up from Twitter to do something that foolish.
One Year Ago, May 30th, 2018: Adam Kinzinger (IL)… 2018 Update
Two Years Ago, May 30th, 2017: Adam Kinzinger (IL)… 2017 Update
Three Years Ago, May 30th, 2016: Adam Kinzinger (IL)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, May 30th, 2015: Michael Peroutka (MD)