Welcome to what is the 1106th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Greg Steube, the sitting U.S. House Representative from Florida’s 17th Congressional District, who first arrived on the political scene back in the Florida state legislature in the 2010 elections, before winning office to replace former Congressman Tom Rooney in the 2018 elections.
And, the Miami New Times made a pretty good case in 2017 as to why the hell that it might be a bad idea to allow Greg Steube to a legislator at any level, making a list of ten bills he’d submitted just as a state legislator that were outright unconstitutional, are completely moronic: That list:
- A bill to ensure that concealed-carry permit-holders can bring guns into airports, which Steube defended mere hours after the mass shooting at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
- A bill that would automatically ratchet up punishments for crimes committed by undocumented immigrants — a rule that would almost certainly be unconstitutional.
- A bill to make reentering Florida after you’ve been deported a third-degree felony, even though that law would violate the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, because state laws can’t contradict federal ones (especially after 2012’s Arizona v. State Supreme Court ruling).
- A bill that would make it illegal to get an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
- A bill adding more mandatory-minimum sentences for drug trafficking (even though both parties agreed a year ago that mandatory minimums are bad policy).
- A bill that would punish owners of gun-free areas like schools or shops if anyone gets hurt inside them.
- A bill that would make it easier for people to claim “Stand Your Ground” if they shoot someone.
- The frighteningly named “Rule of Law Adherence Act,” which would make immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities” illegal.A crackpot bill that would let any taxpayer in Florida object to writings in public-school textbooks (i.e., God is real, Darwinism is not real, any literature with gay people or sex is bad, etc.).
- And a bill that would cut the legs out of Florida’s public-records law and make it extremely difficult to sue the state for taxpayer-owned records.
But of course, the GOP hot-shotted this mouth-breather all the way into the U.S. House, where he’s continued to be terrible at his job.
How about the time in 2020, before the development of Covid-19 vaccines, that Steube touted the useless treatment of hydroxychloroquine, and he referred to the Food and Drug Administration as “The Deep State”? Because fomenting mistrust in that government agency while pushing snake oil on the medical people is the exact sort of thing the country needed right then..
Speaking of his blind loyalty to Donald Trump, Greg Steube also responded to several social media platforms, particularly Twitter, banning him by submitting a bill that it would make it illegal for social media companies to enforce their own terms of use on uses who violate them, especially if those “victims” of censorship should have awful conservative views. Then again, Steube went out the very next day and tried defending Donald Trump during his second impeachment hearings by citing the case of a KKK leader as to what counted as “incitement”.
Great job, Greg. Great job.
But only a few days after that debacle, Steube submitted the sort of transphobic legislation normally only seen at the state level, hoping to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports, and that in the wording, it would submit all teenage girls to genital inspections before participating in sports. Because that doesn’t sound like a more intrusive, pedophilic, abusive environment for everyone involved, does it?
But Steube doesn’t seem to realize how bad he actually is… that might be why the ethics watchdog group CREW had to file a complaint against him when he abused proxy voting rules to send people to vote for him during the Covid-19 pandemic… because he was off f***ing around at the Conservative Political Action Conference, rather than actually working for the American people.
And of course, this dips*** would interrupt a very important hearing about the salient threat our nation faces from white supremacists and domestic terrorists to whine about why the Department of Homeland Security isn’t investigating Black Lives Matter or Antifa (HINT for the brain dead Congressman… they’re not domestic terror organizations).
And then, there’s just a disaster of a voting record these past four years:
- January 27th, 2019: Greg Steube voted against HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attacking our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
- January 22nd, 2019: Steube votes against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Steube voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
- February 28th, 2019: Greg Steube votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
- March 7th, 2019: Steube votes against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance.
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Steube 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.
- June 4th, 2019: Steube votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
- July 16th, 2019: Greg Steube votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
- October 17th, 2019: Rep. Steube is one of 60 Republicans who vote against HJ Res 77, which opposed Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria to the mercies of a Turkish invasion.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Steube ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Steube votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- January 6th, 2021: Greg Steube votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Greg Steube votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Steube votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Greg Steube votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Steube votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3233 the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Steube is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- June 15th, 2021: Rep. Steube is one of twenty-one Republicans who pick a side to have rooted for in the failed coup attempt on 1/6/21 and votes against awarding Congressional gold medals to members of the Capitol Police who bravely defended members of Congress during the attack.
- November 5th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Steube votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Greg Steube would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: Greg Steube is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Steube votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act.
- May 19th, 2022: Steube votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
We have to mention that the last news that broke on Greg Steube about a week ago was during a virtual hearing on gun safety, where, after a swath of mass shootings around the country, including 21 deaths at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas… Greg Steube started waving around his collection of handguns during that meeting, likely looking to gleefully menace and troll people who were watching, hoping, and praying that Congress might do something, anything to stop gun deaths… and showing us the specific kind of f***wits the Republican Party is sending to Washington, D.C., to feed off the pain of victims.
Greg Steube easily won in 2018 and 2020, getting about 64% of the vote in each election. His 2022 opponent looks like it will be Dan Lambert, a lifelong Republican and pastor who’s running against Steube because he cannot rationalize Steube defending Donald Trump after January 6th, 2021. It’s disappointing that there wasn’t an actual Democrat who filed to run, or why Lambert just didn’t try to beat him in a primary… but with any luck, Lambert at least will rough up Steube enough to damage him going forward after 2022.
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