# Is This the Dumbest New Congressmember? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 24, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786 "2010-11-24T16:33:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/21 "2010-11-25T18:05:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > How would preventing men and women from wearing trousers be sexist? Well, it would be harder on the men than the women. . . ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/22 "2010-11-25T19:24:17Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > i was under the impression that there was a religious exception for her. [According to this](http://hatsrcool.com/blog/?p=592), Bella went hatless in the chamber. Many Jewish women wear wigs as a head covering, and she may have done this. Anyone want to step up and fight some ignorance? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/23 "2010-11-25T19:33:30Z")
Clueless? Check Worried about shit that doesn’t matter? Check Does not know the meaning of words? Check Democrat? Check Figures ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/24 "2010-11-25T23:22:44Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > [According to this](http://hatsrcool.com/blog/?p=592), Bella went hatless in the chamber. Many Jewish women wear wigs as a head covering, and she may have done this. Anyone want to step up and fight some ignorance? thanks! i would reckon if anyone could have had it overturned it would have been ms abzug, she had a really good argument. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/25 "2010-11-26T05:37:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Clueless? Check > Worried about shit that doesn’t matter? Check > Does not know the meaning of words? Check > Democrat? Check > > Figures You do notice, do you not, that there are plenty of Democrats in here who think she’s an idiot, too? Sure, there are losers in both parties, but we don’t embrace ours. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/26 "2010-11-26T15:12:04Z")
I’m not sure it’s quite as dumb as the guy who claimed the Pilgrims were escaping socialism, but I can’t remember if that guy was a freshman. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/27 "2010-11-26T15:37:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m not sure it’s quite as dumb as the guy who claimed the Pilgrims were escaping socialism, but I can’t remember if that guy was a freshman. That’s actually the right meme of the day right now. It’s been all over Foxnews and Rush. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/28 "2010-11-27T17:53:19Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It doesn’t “un-woman” her, whatever that means. It’s probably a Macbeth riff > [@](#): > > Come, you spirits > That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, > And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full > Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; > Stop up the access and passage to remorse, > That no compunctious visitings of nature > Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between > The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, > And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, > Wherever in your sightless substances > You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night, > And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, > That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, > Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, > To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ Of course, the Bard would probably think she’s already unsexed herself by seeking the power of office, anyway. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/29 "2010-11-27T20:19:39Z")
I don’t know if she’s crazier for want the rule waived for her or because of the wacky ass hats she wants to wear to Congress. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/30 "2010-11-28T00:43:57Z")
It is not her love of hats. It is her terrible taste in hats that matters. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/31 "2010-11-29T21:03:21Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > It is not her love of hats. It is her terrible taste in hats that matters. Exactly. When I see those hats, I don’t think “feminine” but rather, “bad act in Vegas that cost $5 and you get a coupon for the prime rib buffet” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/32 "2010-12-01T17:44:14Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > “It’s like a fetish.” I’m fairly sure sexually pleasuring oneself on the House floor is also banned, or at least frowned upon. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/33 "2010-12-01T17:49:25Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Exactly. When I see those hats, I don’t think “feminine” but rather, “bad act in Vegas that cost $5 and you get a coupon for the prime rib buffet” Anything to cut the deficit. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/34 "2010-12-01T18:07:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m fairly sure sexually pleasuring oneself on the House floor is also banned, or at least frowned upon. Would you raise a point of order if it were Michelle Bachmann? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/35 "2010-12-01T18:42:42Z")
Wow. Over 300 hats? A separate room in her house to store them? She’s like the Imelda Marcos of (fugly) hats. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/36 "2010-12-01T19:02:09Z")
Whenever she’s down in the dumps, she gets a new hat. Most of us go to the mall, instead. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/37 "2010-12-01T19:16:03Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Would you raise a point of order if it were Michelle Bachmann? I’d raise a point of throwing up in my mouth a little bit. I don’t think Robert’s Rules cover that, do they? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/38 "2010-12-01T19:55:43Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m fairly sure sexually pleasuring oneself on the House floor is also banned, or at least frowned upon. Well, there’s at least one former Senate candidate you know wouldn’t be doing that, anyway… ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/39 "2010-12-01T20:00:15Z")
Yes, but I’m sure there’s something in the by-laws about boiling cauldrons on the floor during sessions. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-dumbest-new-congressmember/561786/40 "2010-12-02T05:29:04Z")
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