Rep. King refuses to participate in Iowa congressional delegation’s inauguration festivities.
Rep. King refuses to participate in Iowa congressional delegation’s inauguration festivities.
Iowa Politics reports that tomorrow after President-elect Obama’s inaugural parade and swearing-in ceremony, Iowa’s congressional delegation will be hosting a reception in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Attending will be the state’s two senators and four of the five representatives — with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) refusing to participate:
That’s right, four — not all five. U.S. Rep. Steve King, a Kiron Republican known for his warning that the election of Barack Obama would lead to terrorists “dancing in the streets,” declined to participate, according to congressional aides.
King said in an interview that he would have had to use money from his campaign fund to pay for the cookies and coffee to be offered up at the reception and he didn’t think it was an appropriate use for the money. “It’s not anti-anybody,” he said. “My disagreements with Barack Obama have never been anything but philosophical.”
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I don’t understand how people could elect these tools. The fact Michelle Bachman won re-ection still boggles my mind.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pmThat’s cool, he can spend the day sobbing in a closet or whatever. It’s his right as an American.
Actually, I’d go take advantage of the wide-open golf links if I was him…
January 19th, 2009 at 6:45 pmRacist, obviously.
That’s the principled stand he’s taking by abstaining here.
Can’t accept a President who is not white.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:47 pmWANKER !!!
January 19th, 2009 at 6:48 pmContinue to be a petty sore loser, I hope your constituents see the complete dick that you are and vote your lame ass out of office in 2010.
Barack Obama, 44th president, get used to it congressman acting like a 12 year-old girl (apologies to 12 year-old girls)
January 19th, 2009 at 6:48 pmI can’t blame him. You know those cookies and coffee run into some serious bucks!
January 19th, 2009 at 6:50 pmoh boy! they’re all putting themselves on display!
can’t wait to hear about this:
Tonight on Glenn Beck: Gov. Sarah Palin, Wives of Border Patrol Agents
January 19th, 2009 at 6:50 pmFOXNews – 2 hours ago
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The Party of Hate, and Division continues their march into oblivion.
Stuff it GOPigs.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:52 pmNice to see Rep. King wants to save US taxpayers dollars as he gave over Trillions by signing Bush’s bills on spending. Just one call to Iraq and I’m sure Maliki would send Rep. King a few bucks for cookies and coffee as Iraq has a big 80 billion dollar surplus. Is Rep. King related to Dr. Martin Luther King? You just never know these days. He might be fighting himself as he knows the answer and we don’t.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:00 pmThese guys still can’t accept a black man named Barack HUSSEIN Obama won the election. It scares the crap out of them. It must make them pretty bitter. Ha Ha!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:00 pmWhat a racist, peckerwood, jerk!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:01 pmHe’d rather go out to the garden and eat a worm…
January 19th, 2009 at 7:01 pmSteve “sour grapes” King.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:04 pmSo is there a law that says the money HAS to come from campaign funds? Could he have just handed over a couple of packs of walmarts value chocolate chip @ $1:32 each out of his own pocket?
January 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmeverytime anyone mentions partisanism in the next four years, I think the automatic response should be “steve king”
apparently this assclown didn’t get the “country first” memo from the RNC or, was that only if grampy won the election? repukeliscum, partisan, petulant children to the bitter end.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmHe will be hiding in his bunker.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:07 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
“Anyone have record of what he did during that last inauguration?”
my best guess would be he and crazy beyotch bachmann had a no-hold-barred grudge match smackdown to see who got to service chimpy under the table first.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:09 pmIt just makes him more of a loser.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:10 pmGood stay home. We don’t want any stinkin repugs messing up President Obama’s and our day.
king should protest with the other racist behinds, way on the other side of DC.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pmAnother 23%er in a state of denial…
January 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pmHow little can this guy get? It’s an inauguration, not Hitler’s birthday! Swallow your words and be a man…not a child.
The Representative’s constituents must be feeling very ashamed and bewildered right now at King’s pettiness. How can this guy work to get anything done on a nonpartisan level if he can’t attend one of the simplest of ceremonies?
If this guy says he’s of the party of Lincoln, he’s saying that with three foot long Pinnochio nose.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pmTalk about a poor sport, this man has no dignity. However he does have the right to do this, it just makes him look like a bigotted fool.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pmHAHA king the jokes on you. Your state started this Obama roll.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pmPretty sad. But I am glad to see him identifying himself as such an obstructionist early.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pmI suppose he’ll be missed by those constituents who are in town for the inaugural.
But, as gummitch astutely notes, cookies can set you back quite a bit in this economy. They probably asked him to bring Pepridge Farm Mint Milanos or some other fancy kind of cookie.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pmMaybe King and Bachmann can hang out tomorrow at the church of sanctimonious hypocrites. Then they can do to each other what their beloved president bush has done our country. What a tool.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:20 pmHe calls himself a “Christian”
January 19th, 2009 at 7:26 pmHoo Boy, What a Turd.
I’ll put up the money for the cookies and coffee up to $200. Seriously. He can’t pass up that offer and I’m not even a lobbyist in DC, just a reporter.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:30 pmHaving been born and raised in his district, I can attest to the petty, small-minded, people who infest thas part of northwestern Iowa. It used to be quite moderate in the ‘60′’s and 70’s, but they went wingnut when Reagan was elected, and haven’t looked back since. Glad I moved.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:30 pmRascism & ignorance are evident in many different ways. This simpleton is just another GOP example.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:33 pmBut my cousin, Rep. David Loebsack will be there, to make-up for King’s pettiness, so it all evens out.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:35 pmI hear you can get Clean Coal Cookies for cheap. Taken from a fresh Tennessee slurry stream and baked up fresh. Mmm, mmm!
Of course I’m sure the other Rep’s will pick up the slack and graciously host any visitors from King’s district who show up, since he’s calling in gwumpy.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:37 pmI am sure his presence will be sorely missed NOT!!!!!!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:39 pmSurely there is somebody in Iowa who can take his seat in 2010. Goodbye, Mr. King. Your time is over–way over.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pmJust like the first poster wonders how the eff do people vote for folks like these to represent ‘em in congress.I guess the 100,000 of Americans in DC celebrating Obama inauguration this very minute are terrorist.Hope is district is proud of him,what a sick man.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pmIsn’t he telling our enemies that we are divided and weak? What happened to politics stopping at the water’s edge and stuff?
Right, Jackie, we don’t know where $385 billion just went, but we cannot afford coffee and a few cookies.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pmI am sure that this won’t hurt Obama’s feelings at all. We really don’t need to spend any time with this a$$hat.
He had made himself out to be as juvenile as our departing President.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pmI look at guys like this and Duncan Hunter, Darryl Issa, et al and it actually makes me happy because they are what the rethuglican party stands for. They are so out of touch I can see their party dying! Throw in mAnn Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill Orally, and Rush Limbaugh and that is what they stand for!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pmKing is trying to convince us that he’s taking some kind of principled stand by not using his campaign fund money in an “inappropriate” way.
There are only two problems with this posturing. One, he’s essentially dissing the rest of the Iowa delegation, who no doubt are doing just that (probably not a good political move), and two, he’s not exactly convincing us that he would be just as principled if it was McCain getting inaugurated.
We’re talking cookies and coffee here — not stuffed rock lobster tail and chardonnay. But no matter. I’m sure the reception will be much more enjoyable for all without King there.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:08 pmHis obsession and love of his own skin color prevented from going to the party.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:11 pmHow sad ..!!
Or may be King could not wear his white cone shaped hood to the party.
Is King in charge of cookies & coffee budget in the Congress?!
January 19th, 2009 at 8:13 pmWhy is everyone so upset?
This is just an answer to the age old question, “How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm…?
January 19th, 2009 at 8:14 pmBozo The Neoclown Says:
my best guess would be he and crazy beyotch bachmann had a no-hold-barred grudge match smackdown to see who got to service chimpy under the table first.
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Anybody got some bleach and Brillo pads on ‘em? I need to scrub my eyeballs for a while after reading this one…
January 19th, 2009 at 8:23 pmKing is an embarassment. I am glad to be from the eastern part of the state where we have elected progressives Loebsack and Braley.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:33 pmHis constituents must be a bunch of real beauts to send a guy like this to DC. He is so petty and small. Anyone ever catch his C-Span rants in an empty chamber at night on the House floor???
This guy is short bus material all the way–a real simpleton.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:43 pmwell, i’d bet that he’s reading these comments (surely an aide, at the lest) and realizing his mistake… he’ll be there.
just a guess.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:45 pmCrackers in Iowa? I thought people from Iowa are supposed to be nice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King#Controversies
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pmI think I will send him a box of cookies so he can sit in his closet all alone and dream of Bush days gone past.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pmGood riddance crybaby! Your cookies taste like cowpies and your coffee is made with the salty bitter tears of losers.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pmMaybe the thought of cookies are an uncomfortable reminder of the restraining order the Girl Scouts put on him…
January 19th, 2009 at 9:09 pmStirring the pot–for fun and profit–Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and I guess the rest of the rightwing reactionary “Tokyo Roses” are sitting like lunkheaded lumps by their microphones regurgitating canned anti-Obama parrot poop and otherwise carrying on like the prospective psychiatric patients they almost most certainly are.
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:16 pmNothing more than a living relic of a dying empire.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:16 pmAss hole.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:34 pmHe can’t afford cookies because his Cheeto budget has gotten way out of hand…pun intended.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:37 pmHum. What a sight. All those 500,000 terrorists dancing in the streets in Washington D.C. at the We-Are-One Inaugural Concert.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:00 pmLatest news bulletin: Cheney hurt his back moving boxes today. (Cheney doing manual labor? I don’t think so.) It was announced he would be attending the inauguration in a wheelchair.
Any bets he uses his “pulled muscle” to pull a no-show tomorrow?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:34 pmAny bets he uses his “pulled muscle” to pull a no-show tomorrow?
Nah, he just wants have an excuse to show all the disrespect he can every time there’s a standing ovation.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:35 pmMaybe someone should check what was in those boxes he felt he had to move himself?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:44 pmMaybe someone should check what was in those boxes he felt he had to move himself?
Jeff Gannon?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:56 pm“It’s not anti-anybody,” he said. “My disagreements with Barack Obama have never been anything but philosophical.”
He has a philosophical objection to Obama’s middle name, right?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:59 pmPlease don’t judge all of us Iowans by the actions of this asshat. King lives in that 5th district has been red for years. King makes Fred “Gopher” Grandy (the former holder of that seat) look like Bernie frakkin’ Sanders by comparison!
January 19th, 2009 at 11:20 pmPay for your own cookies & coffee like the rest of us, you cheap bigot.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:32 pmNo the guy was right. There are terrorists dancing in the street as I look out my window. It pisses me off because I can’t dance and you have to get a few beers in me just to get a slow dance out of me. I made the mistake in inviting them in and of course the beer got to me and I was crying and I was telling them all how much I loved them and that it was not the beer talking. Now there calling me up and they want to do the bowling thing.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:34 pmSteve racist,bigot,hater,Reich wing nut,religious devotee KING,you sir are out of your ffffing mind,whatever they are growing and smoking in Iowa they had better stop unless he speaks for all Iowans.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:45 pmEvery time you think they cannot be any more immature or childish, they can. Each time one of these Republicans open their mouth, they show by example the difference between them and Obama.
And if Obama did every thing wrong for the next four years, he would still be better then anyone they have in that party. They are nasty, hypocritical, selfish and twisted. They prove it each day. They would rather see this country destroyed rather then see Obama as a success. They would rather see another criminal Bush then someone who can unite. They want to see us divided and poor. To keep most Americans poor and struggling with no hope, rather then see all of us prosper.
If we have the elite as the ruling class, then that leaves the poor. And the middle class will no longer exist. This will leave all the best to the rich.
This is what King wants. This is the Republican wet dream. And this inauguration is what they cannot stand.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:07 amcosmicboy Says:
Please don’t judge all of us Iowans by the actions of this asshat. King lives in that 5th district has been red for years. King makes Fred “Gopher” Grandy (the former holder of that seat) look like Bernie frakkin’ Sanders by comparison!
First of all, we are more open-minded than that, and we do not blame all Iowans for what just one of their House Critters says and does. If he were governor, that might be different. ;)
I notice there are actors who get involved in politics (Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, George Clooney), and there are actors who get elected in politics (Ronald Reagan, Fred Grandy, Sonny Bono, Fred Thompson).
I think I like the group that just gets involved, but doesn’t try to get elected. That’s just my opinion.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:19 amRep. King, riding the short bus to Simpleton.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:36 amRep. King – n. One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. Also known as a BIGOT.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:53 amlm945 Says:
Latest news bulletin: Cheney hurt his back moving boxes today. (Cheney doing manual labor? I don’t think so.) It was announced he would be attending the inauguration in a wheelchair.
Any bets he uses his “pulled muscle” to pull a no-show tomorrow?
January 19th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I don’t buy that he hurt it lifting boxes. My goodness, that’s what Rumsfeld’s there for.
But seriously, I think he hurt his back trying to personally move his man-sized safes onto a specially guarded truck.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:35 amKing said in an interview that he would have had to use money from his campaign fund to pay for the cookies and coffee to be offered up at the reception and he didn’t think it was an appropriate use for the money.
Well, is it or isn’t it “appropriate” for Members of Congress to use their campaign money for something like that? If he’s right about that, then he has a legitimate principled beef. But if he isn’t (and I suspect he’s not because how is the rest of the delegation paying for their share?), then what’s the truth? He’s scared?
And if it really isn’t appropriate, and the rest of the delegation is using their campaign funds to pay for it, then why isn’t he filing a complaint with the FEC?
January 20th, 2009 at 1:43 amWhat kind of emblem is on his shirt?
January 20th, 2009 at 7:18 amThe ‘cookies & coffee’ excuse is no excuse,and that shows how low this man is.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:00 amHe is insulting peoples intellignece by using this stupid excuse.
I don’t know, but I don’t see a flag pin. I think he’s anti-American.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:05 amRep. Peter King is just a typical right wing baby throwing his green slime coated pacifier! Love it. Remember Peter, you must chant what you chanted for years:
“I WILL SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT RIGHT OR WRONG. I WILL FLY MY FLAG HIGH, WILL WEAR MY FLAG PIN, BECAUSE I AM PATRIOTIC AND LOVE AMERICA! I SUPPORT PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TIL THE LAST BREATH!”
Bah hahahahaha! Hey, this is what you told us liberals to do when it came to George Bush. Don’t forget it!
January 20th, 2009 at 9:19 amThe state of Iowa changed the direction of the democratic presidential campaign. It was the turning point for Obama’s election. I think his consistuents should be embarrassed of Kings actions. I think the state is more accepting and hopeful than the sorry mr. king.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:38 amWhat a poor excuse of a representative is Steve King! His district/state deserves at least civil conduct from this man.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pmI find this all so apropos; he is a constant reminder of why Obama is now the first Minority POTUS and there is a Repug MINORITY in both Houses.
Thanx, King, you are serving your constituents well!
January 20th, 2009 at 1:10 pm