ZIIIIIIIIIING. ZING ZING ZING ZING. Ball’s in your court, Jared Polis. Because there have been babies born in this country to frightened teenage girls, then immediately thrown in the trash can, health care is not interstate commerce, and the federal government cannot regulate it. Game, set, and match! The government officially can’t go up to these dying baby’s trash cans and force them to sign up for medical attention. But this is probably wrong, of course, because what happens in the process of the baby being taken to a landfill? Interstate commerce, probably! We want to die today. May cannot come soon enough.
Think about it: for any municipality, trash collection involves interstate commerce at some point. What about the printer paper they buy for the sanitation office? Or the trucks they buy? The landfill to which they take these babies may even be in another state! Almost certainly the trash cans these babies were thrown into were made elsewhere than the state in which the trash baby (briefly )lived.
So he is still fucking wrong when he’s being unimaginatively evil-minded. But still, very good work, Steve King! You definitely win today. But please, again, go fuck yourself, you evil sack of idiocy. No wait! First you should have to look a gasping abandoned baby in a trash can in the face and tell it it doesn’t need health care. Then you can go fuck yourself. Then you can live in the projects for a month with no income. And THEN perhaps you can throw your self in a dumpster and feel the lack of health care you need when you are being crushed and burned alive in a trash compactor or whatever.
Is it possible this man really exists? How can something this inhuman arise out of something so Iowa? [TPM]
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But what about those unwanted babies who, like Steve King, crawled out of the trash can and became Senators?
What rough beast slouches toward Washington to be sworn in?
All of them.
Steve King was probably dumped as baby, except that it was into a toilet, not a trash can, after a big dinner at the local P.F Chang's.
Don't mean to be a dick, but thank god he's not a senator, only a congresscritter.
wow, now that you put it that way I kinda admire the little King for overcoming his trashy beginnings to rise to such a high level of public service to his country….aw, just kidding, this douchebag can go fuck himself, with a jar of fetus!
Dumpster Baby Dumpster Baby where are you?
Dumpster Baby Dumpster Baby where are you?
Sorry, I was distracted by the librarian sitting behind King trying to get the peanut butter out of her dentures. What was that about?
Probably trying not to vomit. Librarians tend to be pretty liberal.
This reminds me of an argument between my nephews:
N1: Freak!
N2: Make me!
N1: (sputtering incoherence)
Game, set, match.
Kudos to you Rep. King. You truly live up to your name.
Steve?? I don't get it.
Game, set, match
Fu
I used to think he was America's Putin. That was incorrect. This dick makes Putin look like Santa Claus. Steve King would probably give Ted Bundy the creeps.
First of all, Oprah is America's Putin.
I thought the Double Down was America's poutine?
Wait. Canada's hottest dish? That's Rachel McAdams.
His Royal Highness Steve King I of Douchbagia will send out his four fastest footmen to retrieve all the trashcan babies across this great land!
Putin is intelligent.
Not only is Putin intelligent, but he knows how to get shit done, shit that matters, or, at the very least, shit that has a point to it.
That's kind of easy to do when you're a dictactor in everything but name, no?
What happens in May? Are you passing the torch, Jack?
I hope not. I want him to liveblog the end of the world.
May 21, 2011 is the latest date set by Christians as to the End of the World. Or, Probate Lawyer Day, if you prefer.
the end is nigh! it's gonna be Y2K v 2.0.
I think that's when our beloved editor gets taken away by the nice young men in their clean white uniforms. Hoo-hoo-haa-haa.
You may not have noticed this, but on Wonkette the color red is used for hyperlinks within the articles and clicking on them can tell you what something is referring to.
No need to be a smarty pants about it. I say that because of how often I don't understand what people are talking about. And then I ask. I then the level of my cluelessness is confirmed.
I ran the May 12 argument past my pastor and gave her the laugh of the day.
I'm sorry, you have a female pastor? What sort of Islam are you practicing?
All of them Katie!
Being a smarty pants about stuff is why this blog exists.
That did come off a little too snide; sorry.
Muscular Jesus says NEVER APOLOGIZE!
Sorry 'bout that. Didn't note the distinction in font colour in May. It was all black to me, so, I was thinking… Well, most blogger contracts seem to come up for renewal in early summer, but maybe this year, Jack has opted not to go thru salary arbitration & instead become a free-agent.
Anchor Babies, gunmen randomly shooting babies and now prom night dumpster babies. I think Steve's biological clock is ticking.
Gawd dammit. Not this douche bag again. Methinks he's vying for douche bag of the year.
And yet again, the whole concept of sex ed and birth control accessibility is lost on this piece of crap excuse for a Representative of the people.
Well, he was sorta robbed of last year's Weagle, seeing has he literally is Congress's #1 asshole. FACT.
It's only a matter of time until he announces his Presidential candidacy, no?
He's not vying for douche bag of the year, he's fucking owning it.
Pwning it, I think.
he's certainly got a nice four furlong lead right out the gate!
Exactly. Aren't there 434 other narcissistic creeps in the same room? Can't we focus on one of them for a change?
(Disregard the territorial colereds, natch.)
To be fair, douchebags are constitutionally entitled to congressional representation as are all Americans. It's just kind of hard to believe there are enough of them in Ohio to have their own district.
The Hruska Principle strikes again:
"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos." –Sen. Roman Hruska, supporting Nixon's SCOTUS nominee-fail Harold Carswell.
"I hate to tell you but they show up in garbage cans around this country, sir," he said.
He knows this because he keeps seeing them when he's rummaging around in the dumpsters behind the clinics where all those sluts go.
He needs to go back to shooting rats in his backyard or whatever the fuck it is that he does.
I think it was a "coon" with his desert eagle…and he also does some reagan whacking too, but so do they all.
Isn't it disrespectful to name his sad, tiny penis after the greatest president ever? In history, also?
He stopped shooting rats when they started shooting back.
It's the Promnight Dumpster Baby Argument, a variation of the Chewbacca Defense.
Speaking of which, where is prommie, anyway? Come on guy, I tipped this one in thinking of you.
Steve King is a college dropout who once owned a hole-digging business. This doesn't disqualify him from the position he holds, of course, but his perspective on issues outside of ditch reform might be a bit…dumb.
Steve King–he'll dig your holes!
Finally, Steve King gives us conclusive proof that the human asshole, despite being completely full of shit, can indeed form complete sentences.
Steve King: The poor man's Satan.
So the babee's dead….what's the problem? Doesn't need health care.
Next objection?
steve you know, if you allowed us to abort them, they wouldn't be in trash cans.
fetus AIDS cure spread/creme/ointment FTW!
Or, you know, and I'm just throwing things out here, if Republicans pulled their collective heads out of their collective asses on the issue of sex ed and birth control, and started encouraging the use of birth control for people who damn well are going to have sex one way or another, then, maybe, and really, don't mind me, just maybe there WOULDN'T BE ANY DUMPSTER BABIES!
But what do I know? I'm just a woman who always had access to affordable contraceptives, and I never accidentally got pregnant. And not because Jesus Saves neither, because I'm a Jew.
amen sister.
oh and by the way: no more 'abstinence programs'.
Why don't those kids keep the baby, then go on to a lucrative career as abstinence spokeswomen and successful horrible dancers?
"I'm just a woman …"
(pats on head)
That's nice dear – us menfolk are talking about serious issues here. Why don't you go back to the kitchen and whip us up a little something to eat?
…
Women are so cute when they try to be serious and talk about things that don't concern them.
…and a 'nice' Jew-ish girl at that!
Having now watched the clip, I think abortion is exactly what he's talking about. Doesn't make it any more coherent, though.
With just one day of the new GOP Congress, we've gotten a slew of grandstanding ploys, the Republican Speaker breaking his promises, idiots screeching ridiculous conspiracy theories about the President, Congressmen promising which hunt investigations about fake scandals about the President, and claims that Democratic initiatives are unconstitutional when they are clearly allowed. It looks like 90s retro fever is here, dudes!
Quick, everybody, put on your flannel shirts (or tie it around your waist)! Listen to some depressing, ultra-serious, self-important, bad music by a mumbling, gravel-voiced white West Coaster who hasn't bathed in weeks and is wearing a knit cap indoors. Pine for Ross and Rachel not getting back together. Head to the comic store and buy ten copies of the new BloodDethStryke #1 and seal them in plastic, because it's sure to be worth a shitload of money someday! Ride your skateboard while wearing a backwards baseball cap. Take it to the EXTREME! Fall in unrequited love with a series of women, about one each year of college, who like you as a friend but are not attracted to you.
Oh wait, that last one was just me.
It looks like 90s retro fever is here, dudes!
This is good news for Edwin McCain.
MODS DELETE INTERNET PLEASE.
It's never getting better than this.
Might be my proximity to Brooklyn, but I'm pretty sure bad flannel and shitty music have been back in for at least a couple of years, now. So, basically.
Brooklyn is the Seattle of the east coast.
I shuddered thinking about how annoying the Brooklyn fanbase for the relocated Nets will be.
& TV on the Radio doing the National Anthem at the first game in the new arena.
I'm convulsing, I'm convulsing…
It's okay, SorosBot. We love you, but we're not in love with you.
Poughkeepsie, spring of 1970.
"I love you – as a friend" was something I heard too many times.
You described my college experience to a "T," Soros. So there were at least two of us.
Yay for inexperienced young heartbreak!
Make that three. Man, 2011 is shaping up as a humdoozer here at Wonkyland.
Oh wait, that last one was just me.
No. No, it wasn't. Great, now I'm bummed and pining.
This apology goes out to all the guys in flannel who I loved, but only as friends. I'm not going to apologize to all the guys in flannel I fucked, then ignored, though. Save that for another thread.
Oh, and thanks for letting me wear your jeans. I don't think I bought a pair of my own all through college.
So that's where all my 501s went.
about one each year of college, who like you as a friend but are not attracted to you.
Shit, I've heard that a couple of times in my thirties.
These days, it's usually more hearing one of the magic words, "boyfriend" or "husband" for me.
Not just you, SorosBot. If girl friendship = marriage, I'd be fucking Josepth Smith.
Why the hell would you want to fuck Joseph Smith? WIth a pickax, maybe.
Don't look now but:
The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland
Maggod! Yer daffynishun uv "interstate commerce" would include EVERTHANG! That would meen the dadburn gubmint kood regylate EVERTHANG! Yew must be some kinda commynist. Er nazi, er fascist, er sumpin lak that. Sure ain't no dadblame amurrican. READ THE CONSTITUSHON!
Darth Cheney has an apprentice.
it's getting to the point where it is really hard to remember which Rep. King (R) is the bigger asshole, or if one is actually a bigger asshole than the other.
All of them, Katie!
Do trash can babies grow up into garbage pail kids?
Surely he will soon run out of stupid things to say.
How much can one man deliver?
In Steve's case, infinity and beyond.
I think you're being too optimistic.
We can't handle the truth.
I keep saying the same thing about Walnuts.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
–Albert Einstein.
"Surely he will soon run out of stupid things to say. "
Stay on the sunny side of that street, Monsieur. Grumpe. I envy you.
so is this anti-health care bill nonsense, anti-abortion nonsense, or pro-privatization of trash collection nonsense?
Is there a difference?
All of the above plus let's see how many stupid things one dumb Congressman can say in one lifetime nonsense.
Yes.
All of them, Katie.
I see it clearly. If a baby is thrown off a bridge crossing the Mississippi River between Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, IA, and it lands on the state line, it not only is not involved in interstate commerce, it isn't a citizen either. Right?
Would they be throwing it up on Choctaw Ridge?
And it depends on whether or not it happened before 1953, when Ohio achieved statehood.
jeepers, … and what college football team would it root for? … my head hurts.
That would be the Missouri River.
Aha! I knew there was an answer in there somewhere.
I HATE story problems.
How did this guy so rapidly takeover the Throne of Biggest GOP Asshole. Wasn't it supposed to be Joe Barton? Darryl Issa? John Boehner? Michelle Bachman?? Nobody can stay on top for long. The competition in the GOP is too intense. Just to stay in the caucus it seems you basically need to regurgitate batshit talking points on a regular basis. If you truly want to get ahead you need to further poison our dialogue by innovating batshit talking points all on your own.
I do believe they are going to have to set up a shift schedule. There is just too much outstanding, badass, world-class, championship, gold medal, blue-ribbon, gold-plated assholery in the GOP to let just one have the throne, crown, and scepter (sphincter?).
I want every single "garbage-can baby", no, every man, woman, or child ill without insurance, or without enough $$ (even with insurance), to be delivered to the home of one of these horrifying examples of man's inhumanity to man. That individual is then personally responsible for the medical care and well-being of the patient.
The patients' names and the congresscretin responsible for getting them some of that sweet, sweet, US health care will be published on C-Span. Decisions to short-change the patient and let them die (the only GOP health care plan I've seen is indeed, fuck off and die; you're not our problem) will be included in this public posting.
They have no shame, not being human and all, but hopefully it will induce the unwashed masses to get out the pitchforks and torches.
Seriously, we are really expected to watch loved ones die in this country in this century because we made poor "consumer" choices on our minimum wage incomes like oh, say, heat or electric or food?
I am beyond furious. I guess I'll stop rambling.
So, as a Teabagger, I have to be in favor of abortion, because it is the only thing that keeps the Health Care law from being Constitutional?
I'd love to see that argument to the Supreme Court. I don't even think Thomas will be buying that one.
Ok, I'm starting to run out of snarky, moderately funny comments to make about about these fucking sociopathic jackholes. They are seriously threatening to undermine my carefully cultivated facade of detached, ironic amusement at their amoral dumbfuckery.
We're all going to have to learn to pace ourselves. The next two years will be like the world's longest, most painful marathon. It will most certainly not be a sprint. Now, hit the showers and be back here tomorrow.
You said it so much more concisely than I did. Thank you.
Well, I figure I can either laugh or cry, and I chose to laugh.
If your snark glands go dry, Boenercare fully covers angry bitterness transfusions. Ask your (self-certified) doctor today!
With Steve King trying so hard to regain the title of craziest Congressman today, I kind of dread what Bachmann will do to try and top him.
Clearly, she will have a baby and dump it in the trash, daring anyone to give it health care.
Win!
Take him to dinner and get him drunk, probably.
Ha! In other Bachmann news: Gore Vidal responds to Shelly's claim that his book cured her of Demoncrapism:
"She is too stupid to deserve an answer."
Strip naked, smear herself in feces, and climb the Washington Monument while screaming about the need to repeal Plessy v. Dred Scott, perhaps?
And, while we are on this, isn't Rep. King admitting that every child that doesn't end up in a dumpster will be touching on interstate commerce? I for one have no problems with an exception being added that excludes dead babies from having to maintain health care coverage. But, as Rep. King admits, the rest should be within the system.
Will, if Swift's Modest Proposal for Ireland is brought to the USA (as I sure it will, by some libertarian), then human fetus meat will figure in interstate commerce.
If Hell existed, there would probably be a special trash can reserved just for Rep. King to be dumped into.
Nice use of the Crash McCain puppet as an avatar.
That's his vision of America's future, when abortion is no longer legal, if he knocks up some teenager he'll refer her to the nearest dumpster.
If I drank, I'd drink to that. So instead I'll lift my cup of tea–WAAAAA? Is it too centrist of me to drink tea? Daley would approve, so I'm okay.
And in a dumpster.
Its true. When I had my trash can babies, I told them no way were they going to cross state lines EVAH. And go see a doctor or get immunized and stuff, not on my watch!
If one can be born without interstate commerce, one can be unborn without it, too. Free abortions for everyone, with Goomba Scalia's blessing!
One thing you have to love about the GOP taking control of Congress….it always allows the biggest, largest gapeingist (is that even a word) of the assholes to come out of their assclosets and show the rest of the country what totally angry meanspirited fucks they are. Fuck you Steve King – I hope you die of bad corn poops!
You're fucking kidding me. You're not fucking kidding me? We'll, fuck me. We're all so fucked.
No … Pakistan is fucked.
We're merely screwed.
I had my abortion shipped across the country, FedEx, just to prove a point.
Hopey shouldn't cut the pay of federal bureaucrats. Instead, whenever they have to appear in front of a House committee, they should get fucking hazard pay. And free PTSD care.
I wonder how many times that Bush fetus in a jar crossed state lines.
What I want to know is how you could force a baby to buy health insurance, anyway. Babies can't even sign checks.
All I can say to Steve King:
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
You'd think, at some point, someone would take him aside and tell him to shut the hell up, but he's kind of the kid the other kids put up with because he make 'em look good.
Or perhaps he's the kind of kid other kids put up with because he'll feed their pets anti-freeze.
Who'll know which of them is getting it? The Republithugs voted down a motion to disclose who was and wasn't.
On the other hand, I think we can safely assume he sucks any freebee the taxpayers offer. Because he's doing Jesus' work.
This is the guy who told kids that a shooter was going to kill a bunch of them in the classroom and then said 'psyche!-it was a metaphor for abortion, now you all dont want abortions do you?'
or was it some other gop dickwad……hard to keep them straight these days.
No same dickwad.
Today, we are all uninsured, aborted prom dance dumpster babies.
Yay! More years of life-threatening humor courtesy of the Rotting Vegetable Republicans!
Jesus, this must be some form of wingtard freestyle rap competition — "dropping mad soundbites" or some shit. It's not about rhythm or rhyme, just the shock value/stupidity of the punchline.
See, this is what makes me think this is all an elaborate ploy to distract us from the real action. The GOP has a squadron of buffoonish sociopaths that rat-a-tats out this insane bullshit, inciting liberals to spit and scratch and get all pissy, while around the corner the real dirt is going down — in this case, I think the real action is the new set of rules Boehner is proposing.
And anyway, in Wickard v Filburn ( http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?... ), one of the textbook cases on the Commerce Clause, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could use quotas for wheat even when the farmer was growing it for personal use, because by not purchasing it from elsewhere he was still effecting interstate commerce.
So, if a woman gives birth in a dumpster, she's still affecting interstate commerce through her lack of paying a hospital (or midwife, if she's a stupid hippie who doesn't mind an increased chance of death for both her and the baby.)
Clearly that's untrue, since an expansive Commerce Clause would violate the mythology that our founding fathers intended the government to be weak, minimalist and second in power to the states.
Well, they did intend that; but it turned out to be an unworkable clusterfuck so they threw the Articles out and started over again.
Yeah, weird how the Articles of Confederation, and how they sucked, and how the 2nd CC actually just convened to fix them, but they were unworkable, so they secretly scrapped them and started over from scratch, is never mentioned by teatards for whatever reason. Almost like it doesn't mesh with the teatard narrative that Jeebus personally gave George Washington the Perfect Constitution, which enshrined the three core 'Merkin values of Minimalist government, gun ownership, and ((judeo-)) Christianity, and everything about it was perfect forever.
I can't help but note that a few of my pee-ness's have jumped up and down and all around today- I'm not sure of there's still mass hate-fistery about, or if I've got myself a faceless pee-stalker, but I certainly haven't thought my comments were all that bad, so.
Oh, some libtards love the Articles the way they love their guns.
Isn't the real issue here, that women are taking advantage of our Socialist Garbage Collection services to dispose of their unwanted babbys?
"And if they don't end up in garbage cans, they end up in a jar on a shelf in Barbara Bush's pantry!"
Not by Bab's though, that's the servant girl's job.
He's picking and choosing lyrics of Rockin' in the Free World at whim, rather than considering them within the context of the complete song.
And you should apologize, as Trig would never say anything that stupid.
Or vicious. I'd rather see Trig grow up and get elected to the senate, as he would have to be a better and more intelligent human being in every possible category than King, and thus would certainly be better for the country. No snark.
Jesus H. Kristopher! Cmon, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, etc. Isn't someone going to step up to the plate here? Are you really going to let this gentleman from Iowa out-crazy you?
Virginny crazy like a Fox (R) N.Car. is just getting warmed up, wait til she opens up as chair of the edication comity, home skoolin fer everbody.
Steve King, overheard muttering to himself: "What's the difference between a duck?" "Plywood!" "Why?" "Because there's no bones in ice cream." Makes sense to me.
Millenium hand and shrimp! Buggrit!
Old Foul Ron would be a far better Congressman.
Twice!
Woo hoo — big Steve King shout out to Prommie!
OMG!!!! I didn't know poor Prommie was a dumpster baby, his feelings are going to be so hurt when he reads our comments!
So Rep King, are there possibly people who drive a motor vehicle on an interstate highway (the federal roads!) without ever leaving the state they reside in? Maybe we should opt them out of paying federal fuel taxes.
Oh wait, I shouldn't be giving teabaggers any ideas…
If the dumpster babies get coated with mysterious radioactive chemicals in the landfill, and transform into Mutant Ninja Dumpster Toddlers®, their adventures would fall under interstate commerce, because I intend to retire where there ain't no snow on the action figure profits alone.
As a resident of Iowa, I promise to spend every waking moment from now until 2012 ensuring that Steve King will not get re-elected. Nevermind that I don't live in that district and can't vote against him and that all the fucktards in Northwest Iowa will continue to do so. Whatever, I give up…
Didn't Iowa lose an electoral vote, so isn't one of Iowa's Congresspeople going to get axed anyway in 2012? Just saying, can't there be a way for Mr King to be the odd man out? After all, he is an odd man.
but like most republicans, he is not out.
The problem is that those of us with any ambition have to go elsewhere to earn a living. Happened to me! Not that I'll claim Storm Lake as hometown, G-d forbid, but I did grow within about 15 miles of SL.
Storm Lake's cultural claim to fame: the femme fatale in James Crumley's excellent detective novel, _The Last Good Kiss_, was from Storm Lake.
Prommie? Prommie? Are you OK, lil' dude?
Heh. thumbs to you, alligator dude.
Republican babies make excellent compost…
I can agree with King if the garbage can is a metaphor for america or just individual states. Certainly someone like a Skoalrebel lives in a dump of a state and/or country, a trashbin of existence without healthcare or any care.
Please baby Jesus. Have Rep. King run for Prez in 2012 (or at least share the ticket with the winner of the Bachmann/Palin death match).
I'm picturing a fetus in a jar inside a dumpster on the back of a tractor-trailer pulling into the recycling center, on the way to heaven. And I don't know why.
Worst. Matryoshka. Ever.
Worst.
Matryoshka.Turducken. Ever.There was an old woman who swallowed a fetus…
I don't know whyyyyy
I don't know why she swallowed the fetus…wait! Yes I do! The Democrats RAMMED IT DOWN HER THROAT!!!!!!!!
Oscar the Grouch wept…
Yup. Don't care.
I think my favorite moment in that whole clip is when King sort of abruptly sits back from his microphone after the garbage can crack, as if he's made such a salient point that no one can possibly respond to it. "Oh, snap! Burn! Oh no he di'nt! Answer that, Mr. Democratic Congressman Baby Murderer!"
And to be fair, the Dem was near speechless.
I think I would be, too. Sweet Baby Jesus and His Holy Mother Mary, where would you begin?
Well you could start by racking the Glock.
That would be a great sound effect to have for a debate.
It's reminiscent of when another Republican nut asked a geologist some heartbreakingly stupid question, and was so self-satisfied with himself, while the poor geologist just sat there stunned for a minute.
I remember that. It's going to be s tough couple of years for sentient beings.
That was Congressman Joe Barton thinking he'd stumped Energy Secretary Stephen Chu when he asked Chu how oil got to Alaska, and didn't that prove that Alaska was once a lot warmer, the implication being that global warming must be bullshit if Alaska was once as warm as Texas. Chu was surprised at the idiocy of the question but Barton misread it as not knowing the answer.
Of course before he was Energy Secretary, Chu won a Nobel Prize, but we know that just makes him one of those edumucated elitists.
He also thought Chu was an idiot for saying the continents had moved, showing that Barton, like Bill "no one knows what causes the tides" O'Reilly, apparently never took fourth grade science.
Or when Billo told the atheist that tides go in and out, hand of god, smirk on.
As I mentioned – in another reply that went invisible. What the fuck is up with IntenseDebate today?
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
This was the best comment on the TPM thread:
"Let us consider the bill text, ‘CHAPTER 48—MAINTENANCE OF MINIMUM ESSENTIAL
COVERAGE'.
Under the health care bill, starting in 2016, the head of each household will, for each person under 18 they could potentially claim as a dependent but who is not insured, receive a surcharge of $375 on their income taxes, assuming the household has enough income to rise above the poverty exception.
The $375 surcharge is prorated for those months in which the dependent is uninsured; a baby left in a garbage can will, we assume, be alive for only one month. So by my reading, what Peter King is fighting for here is ensuring that people making above the poverty line who abandon their babies at birth are not subject to a $31 income tax surcharge."
Also.
Okay, I found a pleasing image to contemplate that I hope will calm me down somewhat.
Based on how I want someone on the house/senate floor to react to these awful sub-human gasbags, I like the idea of seeing a viral Youtube video featuring Anthony Weiner jumping up to firmly and loudly state that the Gentlewoman is CORRECT in smacking the Gentleman's head on the table forcefully and repeatedly.
Okay, I go sit quietly now.
Is this his argument against health care or abortion.. I am confused
Yes.
Slightly off-topic, but has anyone noticed the name of the "repeal health care reform before people notice anything is better" bill?
I mean, sure, most of us already had "petty" somewhere on our list of adjectives for congressional douches, but, still: petty.
Loved Krugman closing with Joseph Welch's iconic jab to Joe McCarthy.
Except that these guys don't know the meaning of the word "shame." Literally, for some of them.
How many trash can babies has S. King begotten? Given the number of colored folks in Storm Lake these days, I doubt he's resisted temptation (except the temtation to use a condom).
I am pleased to know that the GOP Death Panels (GOPDP) are not targeting toilet babies.
Ok Rep. King you got me. Choking to death on a trucker's dick is way to good for you. How bout you take a bunch of LSD and then horsewhip yourself to death while hallucinating that you are your own father.
Ah, the joy of having to explain to people that not everyone in (insert state name here) is as backwards and stupid as (insert moron congressperson's name here) but there were enough of them to elect this asshole. It isn't just for Texas anymore.
How can something this inhuman arise out of something so Iowa?
Clearly, you had not considered Jim Inhofe before asking that question.
I have vowed – again – to refrain from employing bad words or violent fantasies in describing the proudly ignorant bloviants who run Der Volkshaus and what ought to be done with them, but I'm so close to my snapping point I must applaud all the rude usages here.
Carry f*^#in' ON!
King of Iowa is fast out of the gate; King of New York is going to really have to up his game if he wants to stay in the running for "Craziest Member of Congress Named King" for the 112th.
Oh, I think Steve has achieved separation and is moving away. Petey is pretty much just a loudmouthed super-conservative hypocrite anti-terrist-except-if-they're-my-terrists piece of shit.
Steve is crazy. Malign crazy. Malign zealot crazy. And by "crazy", I mean sociopath.
As our beloved Prez Ron used to say, "Have you ever noticed how everyone who's in favor of abortion has already been born in a garbage can?"
What if corn had abortions? NO IOWA!! Let that sink in for a minute… The spoiled brat of presidential politics and agrabiz subsidies just GONE…. forever… >shudder<
I'm gonna have to think for a while about corn abortion. I mean, isn't that corn on the cob? Or is there a fertilization subtlety ("Wait for the bee") that I'm missing?
evidently King Douchebag couldn't handle the course load at Northwest Missouri State, ironically a 'teachers college' which are usually the easiest institutes of higher learing around…in my retard state of Indiana the only way you DON'T graduate is if you can't handle all the sexy time with the predominantly female undergrads
The worst part of all this are the reporters coming around my sleeping dumpster and bugging the shit out of me for perspective.
Well golly Steve, maybe if the girl didn't feel so stigmatized by the idea of aborting her unwanted baby, she wouldn't have to offend your sensibilities by going temporarily insane and dumping the full-term result in a garbage can. KARMA IS A BITCH!
But this only matters in the case of male trash can babies, right? Because the females are not afforded protection under the constitution because they are not citizens or people.
SUCCESSFUL TROLL IS SUCCESSFUL.
It's all about grandstanding on the public dime while lowering the level of discourse.
Clutching pearls with one hand & grasping at straws with the other = Teh Gooper Sutra.
What a fucking ball of scum this fucker is. Him and his nasty fetus fetish. Someone needs to check this man's backyard or attic, because there are probably all kinds of weird shit buried and/or stashed in and up there.
Is there some kind of Goodwin's Law when talking about abortion? You know, where you just totally drop the term "dead babies" thus halting conversation.
BTW, Jared Polis really, really could have rebutted that better. Dude froze. I understand he was probably shocked by the dead baby drop, but you've got to be ready around these crazy fuckers to hand their asses to them in meaningful congressional rap battles.
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Hear, hear!
I yield again to the gentleman from Hogwarts, which sounds like an STD, but is not.
The college from which he didn't graduate is NW Missouri State, and the years were 1967-1970. Wikipedia also says "King is against illegal immigration (citation needed)."
In light of Rep. King's remarks, I believe a quote from Idiocracy is appropriate:
"And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for F#$!. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared about who's ass it was and why it was farting…"
Since Stupak Shakur — mourn ye 'til I join ye… in the private sector, blood — expressly assured abortion funding would be excluded from any health-care plan on offer to those buying with government subsidy, how is abortion even part of the health-care reform debate, visavis commerce clause or otherwise, anyway?
So…trash can babies aren't required to buy health insurance? Is King offering an amendment to Obamacare here?
It's the smug look on his face, like he's making some amazing point that gets me. He has no clue how stupid and mean he sounds.
Oh I know. It's not clear which is more disturbing. He honestly believes the words that come from his mouth, or that he has followers that vote for him because of the words that he says.
but had the teen who dumped said baby had proper sex ed, access to birth control, and or prenatal care (some sort of healthcare) that poor dumpster baby would be a walking, talking poo-machine instead of dead.
but who cares, lets keep punishing teen girls for wanting to get it on.
Is this where I say, "Relax and enjoy it"? No?
I will admit to occasionally hitting the wrong thumb with my big fat finger when I'm reading the comments on my iPhone. I'm sorry if I've damaged your pee.
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