King rears his ugly head again (he'll be on Sean Hannity tonight)

[progressoid]

If any of you can stomach it, Steve King will be on Hannity's TV show tonight (I'll be watching Battlestar Galactica - yes, I'm a geek).
He's apparently going to declare his umbrage at Obama for using his middle name during the inaguration. :eyes:

Here's a thing from Politico:

King: Obama 'bizarre' to use 'Hussein'
By DANIEL LIBIT | 1/16/09 11:16 AM EST


Apologize? Not so much.

But Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who last March predicted Al Qaida would be “dancing in the streets” if Barack Obama were elected president, now concedes that the dynamic has merely “shifted” on the terrorist front.

...snip...

While acknowledging that the terrorists aren’t dancing in the streets, King has moved on to the whole “Hussein” controversy.

He doesn’t like the fact that the president-elect will be sworn in using that middle name during Tuesday’s Inauguration.

...snip...

The congressman says he doubts Obama’s sincerity when he explained that he chose to use his middle name so as to be historically consistent with past inaugurations, when America has heard the full names of its presidents echo from the inaugural stand.

“Whatever his reasons are,” King said, “the one he gave us could not be the reason.”

He continued: “The society is a little strange about this. If you’re speaking the truth and in an effort to be objective, there should be nothing off limits in a free society, there are many biases building and clearly a double-standard.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17506.html

[Bluzmann57]

1. Sigh...

Why does our great state have to be saddled with this jackass?

[47of74]

2. What an ass

I may be represented by Bruce Braley, but as an Iowa it is still a source of shame that this back end of a horse King represents a part of Iowa in Congress.

[Peacetrain]

3. I live in his district..and this guy keeps getting elected

even though he refuses to debate his opponents, says the most racially hateful things, and shows absolutely no understanding of large government.

My question is why and how is this guy getting re-elected. I need to get the water checked out here on the western border.

It is the same group mentality that elects Michelle Bachmann in Minnesota. Just talking to a friend in the Twin Cities this AM about that dynamic.

Hopefully our something good will come out of our losing a congresscritter. That one might be King.

We can all keep our fingers crossed

[Peacetrain]

5. I just reread this.. and realized I left out redistricting

Let me try this again so it makes some sense :)

Hopefully some good will come out of our having to redistrict and lose a congresscritter.

[progressoid]

6. Yep, I'm hoping that redistricting will come to the rescue.

Regardless of what asinine statements he makes, he still gets re-elected. Gaah! :banghead: It's frustrating to think that we can't count on the voters here in the 5th to do the right thing. Sadly, it seems redistricting is our only option at this point.

Of course, NW IA will still be mostly red but maybe a few more progressive voters in the mix will make a difference. Hopefully in the primaries he'll lose to someone less horrible. And then in a perfect world, we'll beat that person in the election. :) :thumbsup:

[Peacetrain]

7. From your lips to God's ears!!!!

It would be such a gift of karma..

[Counciltucky]

8. Maybe we can hope for gerrymandering...

You know, so somehow Kiron, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City, are all in the same district. Let Loebsack run King's area for a while, just to watch the little rodent's head explode.

[47of74]

9. Or somehow put Dubuque and the Quad Cities in the mix

[Blue Gardener]

4. At least we gave Obama his start

That should help Iowa's reputation. Steve King is just an embarassment.