On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Colorado’s 4th District, Ken Buck, who in his original profile, we noted was forced to resign in disgrace from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado in 2001, and in 2005, while working at the Weld, Colorado District Attorney’s office, he would seize the tax information of five thousand people in a raid on a tax service, getting the office sued by the public for violating their constitutional rights by seizing their personal information. Buck is also noted for being terribly misogynist, not just because he supports Personhood legislation or thinks rape and incest victims should be forced to carry any fetus they might end up pregnant with to term… in a 2010 failed campaign for U.S. Senate he stated his superiority because he didn’t “wear high heels”, and because in 2005, while a prosecutor, he refused to charge a rapist who confessed to forcing himself on his victim while drunk with rape because, as he put it, it was simply “a case of buyer’s remorse” from the victim.
Adding to that disgusting moment, Buck also is a Birther conspiracy theorist, a climate change denier, and has compared homosexuality to alcoholism (the latter of which is of course classified as a disease), as well as comparing pregnancy to cancer. Buck has also argued against the United States housing Syrian refugees because, no lie, “BENGHAZI”. Which is remarkable that he’s blaming something that happened in Libya NINE years ago on people fleeing a country hundreds of miles away for their lives. Ken Buck, also has been a defender of the highly controversial AR-15 assault rifle, justifying its use for killing small animals like “raccoons and foxes” in March of 2018, only days after one was used to commit mass-murder at Parkland High School in Florida. He also literally trying normalizing scenes of carnage like this, saying they “happen all the time”. Classy. He should try explaining that to the families of the people killed in Boulder this week, as well.
He also claimed that he saw “not a shred of evidence” that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the 2016 election, which doesn’t exactly jive with what Robert Mueller and the entire intelligence community revealed again and again.
Colorado’s 4th District has a +13 Republican lean, and that gerrymandering is the only thing that keeps Ken Buck safe from getting booted from office. We’ll note over the past few years, he has faced down constituents at volatile town halls where he’s been raucously booed and heckled. That led him to pen an editorial in July of 2017 where he wrote “The Republican Party is dead” because Donald Trump is president, and yet here we are four years later as its undead form is still shuffling around with Rep. Buck a key part of it without choosing retirement like so many of his colleagues have. As he ran for a fourth term in 2018 he had a constituent arrested for leaving him a message critical of Buck for doing nothing about the Trump administration’s “family separation” policy outside his office in sidewalk chalk, (So much for respecting the First Amendment).
Ken Buck’s voting record shows he has devolved from “partisan hack” to “extremist lunatic” of late:
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Buck passes on voting for HR 648, completely uninterested in ending the longest government shutdown in history.
- February 15th, 2019: Buck votes against HJR 46, deciding that Donald Trump’s “national emergency” on the U.S. Mexico border is a legitimate threat to the United States, even though border crossings are at their lowest point in decades.
- February 28th, 2019: Ken Buck 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. Buck 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.
- May 17th, 2019: Buck votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Buck can’t be arsed to vote for the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
- July 12th, 2019: Buck is one of 12 Republicans who votes against the re-authorization of the Zadroga Act to provide healthcare to 9/11 First Responders.
- July 16th, 2019: Ken Buck 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: Buck 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.
- October 23rd, 2019: Buck is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”. He was supposedly upset that he didn’t get to participate in the hearings, which is a lie, because Buck just chose to not show up for them.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Buck 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.
- April 23rd, 2020: Rep. Buck is one of 4 Republicans who vote against the first Coronavirus stimulus bill in the House.
- May 15th, 2020: Buck votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- December 10th, 2020: Buck signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: Ken Buck doesn’t even bother to come to the Floor to vote to certify the electoral college results after the attack on the Capitol, 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. Buck 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: Ken Buck 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: Buck votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Buck 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: Ken Buck votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Buck 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. Buck is one of 172 Republicans who choose to vote 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).
Bizarrely, Buck, a man who only a few years ago declared the GOP “dead” ran to be the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Maybe rather than covet some new power, Buck should have been more focused on his home life, as his wife left him in 2019.
As 2020 approached, Ken Buck calculated that his best take for winning re-election to another term was to make a veiled death threat at Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke for believing that gun control might actually work. (Again, given current events in Boulder, his extremism on guns isn’t a good look.) Because his district is so conservative, though, nobody blinked about Buck’s death threats and he was sent back to Washington, DC with 60% of the vote.
He’s currently working on other ways to help the American peo- HAHAHAHA just kidding, this dips*** is rallying behind morons like Matt Gaetz and trying to push the narrative that “big tech is unfairly censoring conservatives”, and looking to hold hearings to put the owners of Google, Twitter, and Facebook back in the House again to explain that nobody is censoring anything, this isn’t “cancel culture” and people just don’t like their conservative opinions because they’re s***.
Simply put: Ken Buck is an inflamed appendix in the legislative branch of our government. Useless, and should be removed for the infection spreads.