Steve King uses 'Babies Born in Dumpsters' to argue that Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutional

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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January 07, 2011 08:00 AM
Rep. Steve King uses 'Babies Born in Dumpsters' to argue that Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional

By John Amato

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rep-steve-king-uses-babies-born-dumpste

Rep. Steve King is the epitome of the disgusting Bircher-Randian megalomaniacs that have overtaken the Republican party. Day after day he says things that are so unseemly that I wonder if we could get a Congressional censoreship on his remarks so they can be stricken from our ears because they are hazzarise to our health. In his latest transgression, he uses babies born in trash cans to defend his positions on HCR repeal.

Testifying that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional before an emergency Rules Committee meeting on the GOP's repeal bill this morning, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) offered a very specific argument.

"There've always been," King said, "babies that were born, lived, and died within the jurisdictions of the individual states, who never cross a state line, access no health care, and therefore do not impact interstate commerce."

When Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) challenged King to "find the baby that was not born at a hospital or with a midwife, who did not receive inoculations," King upped the ante. "I hate to tell you, but they show up in garbage cans around this country, sir."

[forty6]

1. King is a garbage can politician! So he's probably seen a few n/t

[mrcheerful]

2. Lets break it down, every few months a news paper or MSM runs a story about

some teen who found herself pregnant, was afraid to tell her parents so she hid the pregnancy until it was born then she panicked and put it in the trash. Wing nuts being nit wits take this few cases a year and make it into an epidemic problem, remember when RTL ran stories about planned parent clinics having dumpsters full of black babies? Same thing, wing nut thinks it wing nut says it so it must be true.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. "Babies Born in Dumpsters" = "GOP Marketing Gold"

They're the party of fear, the party of "Obama the Kenyan is going to come to your hospital room and personally unplug your dialysis machine."

Nothing new here...King is just being a Republican.

[mrcheerful]

5. Yep

[Gman]

4. Wow! Verbally reaching behind his head with his big toe with his right foot

and sticking his big toe on his left foot in his right ear at the same time. Incredible.

[AlbertCat]

6. Yeah, but are a MAJORITY of babies born in dumpsters?

Sounds like special interests to me!


:eyes: :wtf:

[perdita9]

7. Maybe they were born in dumpsters because...

...mom didn't have access to afforadable health care.

This is the dumbest argument I've ever seen proposed by any politician.

[JDPriestly]

8. Babies born in dumpsters is an argument FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

What in the world is King thinking? Every expectant mother should have the right to medical care for herself and her baby. If every expectant mother had that right, there would be no more babies born in the misery of a dumpster.

Has King forgotten where Jesus was born? Would he refuse medical care to a baby like Jesus born to a mother who mysteriously became pregnant with someone other than her husband and who had to lay her baby in a manger after it was born?