# Congressman Steve King is even stupider than we thought **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903 "2012-08-08T22:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/1 "2012-08-08T22:08:42Z")
In an attack on animal protection laws, [he said this](http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/what_theyre_saying_steve_king_on_animal_fighting_america_and_immigration/): > [@](#): > > What I’ve said is we need to respect humans more than we do animals. Whenever we start to elevate animals above humans, we’ve crossed a moral line. For example, when there’s a sexual predator out there, who has impregnated a young girl, say a 13-year-old girl — and it happens in America more times than you or I would like to think — that sexual predator can take that girl off the playground of a middle school, and haul her across a state line, and force her to get an abortion to eradicate the evidence of his crime, and bring her back and drop her off at the swing set. And that’s not against the law in the United States… What planet does he live on? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/2 "2012-08-08T22:35:53Z")
Wow. That’s…not a train of thought, even a stupid one. It’s more like a couple of boxcars and a caboose off the crazy train, sitting on separate sidings. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/3 "2012-08-08T22:56:07Z")
Yeah, some of his latest books have been terrible. Wait, sorry, wrong guy. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/4 "2012-08-08T23:16:26Z")
What’s this ‘we’ shit? Plenty of us already thought Steve King was amazingly stupid. This story is just further confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/5 "2012-08-08T23:29:45Z")
Ah, yes. One of the All-Stars of my “Thanks for being on my side, now stop,” list. The stupidity is truly epic. It’s not ordinary. It’s beyond that. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/6 "2012-08-09T00:15:23Z")
I’m confused. Does he want the Farm Bill to include a clause against breeding 13yo girls or does he want it to ban watching fights between 13yo girls? Can 13yo girls still fight dogs? \*“Now, I have broken up some dog fights, being around the dogs that we have, and I’ve got a few little marks on me that come from that…” \* This guy doesn’t even know where the clue store is. Does he actually think dog fighting is about when the neighbor’s dog comes over for a piece of tail because he didn’t spay muffy? Or did he personally jump into a real dog fighting ring and come out with only “a few little marks.” If it is the latter, then we need to ship his butt over to the war zones! ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/7 "2012-08-09T00:57:19Z")
From a planet called Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/8 "2012-08-09T00:57:54Z")
Do they know about this in Iowa? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/9 "2012-08-09T01:21:49Z")
That only proves he is as stupid as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/10 "2012-08-09T01:50:24Z")
can’t… stop… laughing! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/11 "2012-08-09T01:57:42Z")
You know, this could get some poor pervert in real trouble. “No, no, this is all legal! A Congressman said so! A member of the _United States Congress_! You can’t arrest me! Wait–what are you doing?!?” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/12 "2012-08-09T02:03:50Z")
Dogs are not for fighting, dogs are for blaming farts on. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/13 "2012-08-09T02:35:37Z")
[It gets worse:](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/08/661291/beyond-obamacare-rep-steve-king-wants-to-repeal-everything-bill-obama-has-ever-signed/) > [@](#): > > “King added that he’s thinking about introducing a bill, which if it became law, would repeal everything Obama has signed into law,” reports The Messenger, a local newspaper in Iowa. Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/14 "2012-08-09T02:47:08Z")
But…but…Obama would have to sign it?..wait, what?..if he signs the bill repealing everything he ever signed, and he’s signing it, then he is repealing it, so everything he ever signed is…oh, fuck this, gimmee a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/15 "2012-08-09T02:49:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [It gets worse:](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/08/661291/beyond-obamacare-rep-steve-king-wants-to-repeal-everything-bill-obama-has-ever-signed/) > > > [@](#): > > > > “King added that he’s thinking about introducing a bill, which if it became law, would repeal everything Obama has signed into law,” reports The Messenger, a local newspaper in Iowa. So he’d introduce a bill that repeals everything that Obama has signed (boy, talk about your omnibus bills) that, assuming it even gets out of committee, onto the floor of the Senate and House, and passed by the House and Senate, might then be placed in front of Obama? He can’t seriously believe this thing would ever have a chance of passing; he’s got to be playing to the hyperconservatives. Although, given some of the things you hear from that end of the spectrum these days, he might be serious. In which case, I agree with one of the commenters that he’s into full-on Bachmann Tinfoil Overdrive. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/16 "2012-08-09T02:53:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [It gets worse:](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/08/661291/beyond-obamacare-rep-steve-king-wants-to-repeal-everything-bill-obama-has-ever-signed/) > > > [@](#): > > > > “King added that he’s thinking about introducing a bill, which if it became law, would repeal everything Obama has signed into law,” reports The Messenger, a local newspaper in Iowa. I haven’t asked for much in my life, but can I please pick the title of this bill? Pleeeeeeasse? I dub it “The Congressional Nu-Uh Act of 2012”. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/17 "2012-08-09T02:57:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > So he’d introduce a bill that repeals everything that Obama has signed (boy, talk about your omnibus bills) that, assuming it even gets out of committee, onto the floor of the Senate and House, and passed by the House and Senate, might then be placed in front of Obama? He can’t seriously believe this thing would ever have a chance of passing; he’s got to be playing to the hyperconservatives. > > Although, given some of the things you hear from that end of the spectrum these days, he might be serious. In which case, I agree with one of the commenters that he’s into full-on Bachmann Tinfoil Overdrive. But if Obama doesn’t sign it, he an obstructionist. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/18 "2012-08-09T03:09:45Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > But if Obama doesn’t sign it, he an obstructionist. All he has to do is say he’d sign it, and then the Senate Republicans will filibuster it. There’s a joke in here somewhere, and I suspect Rep. King is it. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/19 "2012-08-09T13:06:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [It gets worse:](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/08/661291/beyond-obamacare-rep-steve-king-wants-to-repeal-everything-bill-obama-has-ever-signed/) > > Words fail me. I think the day he introduces that bill, we’re officially due a refund on his salary. Especially since he’d be canceling all (if any) work he’d done in the past three years. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903/20 "2012-08-09T13:29:10Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > All he has to do is say he’d sign it, and then the Senate Republicans will filibuster it. If he signs it, the bill would be immediately nullified by that very bill. Talk your way outta that one, huh? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-steve-king-is-even-stupider-than-we-thought/630903.md?page=2)