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March 19, 2009

Congressman Describes Sound Of ‘Tightening Sphincters’ In Inappropriate Speech

by Jim Newell  

Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette today: “Ross Perot, when he ran for president in 1992, talked about the giant sucking sound. Well, today there’s another giant sucking sound going on in Washington, D.C. And that’s the tightening of sphincters on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as people are having to explain who put into the stimulus bill this provision of law.” Really now… come on. You can’t just go saying stuff like that. [Plain Dealer]

{ 58 comments }

CaliforniaMike March 19, 2009 at 3:39 pm

You’ve got to love a guy who talks about teh sphincter on the floor of Congress. Might be a first.

Gallowglass March 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Tit sucking and tight sphincters? Being in congress is everything I dreamed it would be.

FMA March 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm

The guy’s name is LaTourette. He should have just said “assholes.”

Da Derga March 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm

His name should explain it all.

WadISay March 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Will the gentleman yield to the Senator from Idaho?

shortsshortsshorts March 19, 2009 at 3:41 pm

This is following the tit-sucking comments? D.C. IS FINALLY AN HONEST PLACE TO RESIDE.

ManchuCandidate March 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Sphincters and Repugs go together like Young Boys and Repugs.

CaliforniaMike March 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm

[re=269153]WadISay[/re]: He’s a former senator, but his stance is as wide as ever.

StephanieInCA March 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm

I bet he and Chuck titty-suckin’ Grassley go to, um, “lifestyle” parties together. Yummy.

Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! March 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm

[re=269147]CaliforniaMike[/re]: Ohhhhhhhhhhh, “fiRst”……

Custerwolf March 19, 2009 at 3:44 pm

[re=269151]FMA[/re]: I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was referring to the pyloric sphincter.

madtowngooner March 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm

No way this guy’s name is La Tourette. Ring job, ring job. Damn. Trailer Park Cunt.

KilgoreTrout_XL March 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Republicans are a national treasure.

Today we are all bible-thumping GOPs, fingerblasting that page’s touchhole, but only to hear the sound of ross perot fellatio for a speech, or because we’re in the closet, ima get my ball gag.

comradepaulson March 19, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Bets on who now starts talking about the Vagina or the CockandBalls? Call me crazy, but I do believe this is Ron Paul territory here.

shanemacgowan March 19, 2009 at 3:46 pm

He’s going against his party. R’s usually work to loosen sphincters.

Naked Bunny with a Whip March 19, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Republican lawmakers spend more time thinking about anuses than proctologists.

Canmon (the Inadequate) March 19, 2009 at 3:47 pm

There aren’t any Republicans left with tight sphincters, except the women.

Doglessliberal March 19, 2009 at 3:47 pm

This is the social conservative moron who voted for impeachment, but got caught by his wife in 2003 when he was having an affair with a staffer. (His wife then put big campaign posters all over her house for the person running against him in 2004. Sadly, didn’t work.) He is now married to the former staffer, and she is a big time lobbyist. They are all frigging hypocrites.

Lionel Hutz Esq. March 19, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Oh, why not one more:

LaTourette Syndrome?

prizepig March 19, 2009 at 3:49 pm

Pennsylvania Avenue has sphincters on both ends? Like upper the esophageal sphincter and external anal sphincter?

That’s one big tract…

Gallowglass March 19, 2009 at 3:49 pm

[re=269165]comradepaulson[/re]: He IS a vagina expert.

Custerwolf March 19, 2009 at 3:49 pm

Rep. LaTourette please shut your godamned oral sphincter.

Bronkers March 19, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Anatomy Day at Wonkette!

FMA March 19, 2009 at 3:52 pm

[re=269162]Custerwolf[/re]: Or maybe the pupillary sphincter.

american mutt March 19, 2009 at 3:55 pm

do we have a bunch of proctology school dropouts here?

Come here a minute March 19, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Has he twatted?

pedestrian rage March 19, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Can someone please set this to music, so’s I can whistle a little Repug tune to “tits and sphincters, Santorum and splinters…”

Min March 19, 2009 at 3:58 pm

I got news for Stevie. That ain’t a sucking sound.

SayItWithWookies March 19, 2009 at 3:59 pm

[re=269182]Come here a minute[/re]: Oly fake Republicans twat — real Republicans sphincter. Abstinent Republicans only asymptotically approach sphinctering.

springfield_meltdown March 19, 2009 at 4:06 pm

[re=269169]Doglessliberal[/re]: He also promised to only run for x number of terms and broke that promise. Of course I think he only won his seat because he became locally famous for prosecuting the Kirtland cult killings.

Zadig March 19, 2009 at 4:07 pm

There’s really just nothing to say about a dude named LaTourette talking about ‘tightening sphincters’ on the House floor.

WadISay March 19, 2009 at 4:07 pm

I suppose it would have been less trite to say, “Penises are shriveling into their body cavities.”

Doglessliberal March 19, 2009 at 4:15 pm

[re=269202]springfield_meltdown[/re]: Oh I love when they do that. “Well, term limits are a good idea for other people, but see, I have so much left to do…..”

Ass wipe.

binarian March 19, 2009 at 4:17 pm

I got all excited when I saw the is article. “Yeah!! I got a good one! LaTourettes Syndrome!! Bet I’ll be the first one!!!”

…not…

badmuthagoose March 19, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Oh my GOD that is so disgusting. I can’t believe he quoted Ross Perot! Doesn’t CSPAN have a profanity filter or a two second delay or something, so people won’t have to hear profanity like that?

Gopherit March 19, 2009 at 4:35 pm

It saddens and disgusts me that this twat has a legitimate point. Fuck you Chris Dodd. May you and your loose sphincter get crabs again.

widestanceromancer March 19, 2009 at 4:38 pm

[re=269169]Doglessliberal[/re]: So, he ran again to spend less time with his family–how refreshing.

TGY March 19, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Great. Steve LaSphincter.

Custerwolf March 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm

The sound of his voice alone makes my butt squinch.

Doglessliberal March 19, 2009 at 4:45 pm

[re=269240]widestanceromancer[/re]: win!

Capricatony March 19, 2009 at 4:52 pm

I’ve heard entirely too much discussion of Timothy Geithner’s dick and sphincter.

WadISay March 19, 2009 at 4:58 pm

[re=269246]Capricatony[/re]: The only guy with a sphincter that covers the entire length of Pennsylvania Avenue is Mark Penn.

lulzmonger March 19, 2009 at 5:06 pm

You gotta admit, noone knows their sphincters like the GOP … oh, & keep both hands where I can see ‘em, LaTourette!

Perhaps before President Obama wades into the AIG mess, this fine fellow can lend him one of his wetsuits.

Atheist Nun March 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm

And that’s the tightening of sphincters on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue

•••LOL•WUT?!?•••

Politics is like a Pushmi-pullyu with 2 assholes instead of 2 heads?

Oh, and republicant’s? Enough with the ass-obsession already. Please keep your paraphilia to yourselves and just try to focus on doing your jobs, losers.

Joehoya March 19, 2009 at 5:12 pm

We all live in Painesville these days.

Roger the Shrubber March 19, 2009 at 5:21 pm

If we measure sphincter pressures in pounds per square inch, then we can finger the culprit.

stopmebeforeitypeagain March 19, 2009 at 5:27 pm

LaTourette? “Sphincter?”

“These are the times that try men’s assholes.” Fuck Tom Paine. Also.

Jukesgrrl March 19, 2009 at 5:44 pm

[re=269280]stopmebeforeitypeagain[/re]: FTW.

grevillea March 19, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Wait, he’s describing some kind of unprecedented… rectal vaccuum? This sounds messy.

AxmxZ March 19, 2009 at 6:53 pm

First tit-sucking, now ass-sucking… is no one in Congress getting laid anymore?

Mr Blifil March 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm

[re=269378]AxmxZ[/re]: Anymore?

OzoneTom March 19, 2009 at 9:26 pm

I thought that Sphincter was the character played by Eddie Deezen in the Pirro 8mm classic “A Polish Vampire in Burbank”.

Tight? I didn’t even know that he was a drinker.

gliberal March 19, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Rush Limbaugh’s sphincter can reach both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue by itself.

PeteJayhawk v2.0 March 20, 2009 at 1:36 am

Ken Layne: “Newell, you remember back when we got lots of traffic? Remember how the people loved the ‘ass fucking’ tag?”

Jim Newell: “Yessir, I do.”

Ken Layne: “Well, now that I don’t have to answer to anyone wanting me to get ‘traffic’ or ‘pageviews’ on my website, I want you to stop using every popular meme that Wonkette was known for, because I’m a bearded contrarian who will let you know it at every turn, despite the fact that my website still claims to be ‘The DC Gossip’. Got it? I want to be as obscure and hateful as possible at all times.

“Just take a look at our traffic over the past 16 months. I want you to continue that trend, and anyone who argues otherwise is a fartsack.”

loupgarou March 20, 2009 at 3:15 am

Man, this guy’s mind turns to thoughts of stimulus and putting it in, and he imagines he can hear sphincters tightening. That is some level of repression. You can just see uptight written over the poor guy’s face. He’s just suffering for no reason at all. If he learned to accept himself as he is, I bet Wonkette would still be his friend. Just ’cause your notions of sexytime are offbeat, doesn’t make ‘em wrong, Steve-o.

Pragmatist March 20, 2009 at 9:22 am

Literate Wonkette fans (I know, I know – that’s an oxymoron) will have noticed the the Congressman was simply making an homage to an infamous statement of Alexander Haig’s on the day Reagan was shot. It is overshadowed by his more infamous statement “I am in charge here.”

remembers when Wonkette was funny March 20, 2009 at 10:48 am

well, he IS from Painsville.

maven March 20, 2009 at 3:12 pm

He seems somewhat obsessed with that area of the anatomy, he also talks about Adam and Eve’s “expulsion”.

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