Ahh, congressman Markwayne Mullin, the least educated and possibly least intelligent member of that august body. I remember him running on a theme of, “the government handouts and programs are ruining this country. The giveaways are driving honest small businessmen like me out of business - bullshit”. Standard teapot stuff. Turns out our simple man-of-the-people plumber (yes, another famous plumber) was getting approximately 60% of his business from government programs through the local indian reservations. He had married into enough Indian blood to qualify his business as indian owned and was able to bid on available contracts. Sounds like cold-blooded hypocrisy doesn’t it? Actually no, he honestly didn’t know that these contracts were government “handouts”. Not a troll/true believer like Gohmert or King, he really is/was that dumb.
This isn’t his first run-in at townhall meetings. When first elected on his scorched earth policy, he had his hat handed to him by local powers. His section of Oklahoma is/was heavily subsidized by Federal and State government. Most of the population is on some sort of government assistance. McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Big Mac state prison, Boeing, other prisons, indian reservations all were present and vocal about what he could do with his plans. This is another example of people who are too dumb to realize they are voting against their best interests. And Obama.
He’s gone on to distinguish himself with more stupid shit like this but the white trash keep returning him to congress while cashing their welfare/SocSec/etc… checks. I’m pretty sure Rick and I have brought him up before in this thread.
That’s at the same time a fantastic, a very American, and a very unAmerican way to dismiss opposition. It’s very American because hey, a buck is a buck, and any way to get paid is to be lauded especially when it hinges on someone else’s stupidity. It’s fantastic because it really doesn’t happen. And it’s unAmerican because you’ve got all these private property, self-enterprise, capitalism rah-rah bastards essentially clamouring that having money talking is a big no-no, even as they supported Citizens United and similar “corporate money deserves a voice !” laws. Which in itself was extremely American.
It really is a thing of beauty. You know, an ironic, ugly as sin beauty.
I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?
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Back in 2012 when for a few hours it looked that Obama, wile winning the electoral vote may had lost the popular vote (He did not later in the official count):
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The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
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Pastor Kevin Swanson, who may have been mentioned here before, thinks the new Beauty and the Beast will inspire pubescent young females to wander out into the Great Plains in search of buffalo dick.
Mmm-hmm. It’s impossible for the Republicans to win the Electoral College, when the College is arranged so that it gives excessive power to Republican areas. That’s why the only cases of winning the Electoral College without also winning the popular vote in living memory have both been Republicans.
Benjamin Harrison and Rutherford B. Hayes were also Republicans. At least, that is what they were called in those days. I doubt they would at all resemble a Republican of today.
At a town hall meeting tonight, Congressman Jeff Denham of California was asked if he would ask Trump to release his tax records, and he said he would never ask Obama to release his birth certificate, so why should he ask Trump to release his tax records.
Apparently that’s now a major plank for the Republicans: “We’re no longer going to talk about Obama being a foreigner; we’re just going to insinuate it.”