Rep. Jean Schmidt Tells Birther: ‘I Agree With You’
Rep. Jean Schmidt Tells Birther: ‘I Agree With You’
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) spoke at the Voice of America tea party this Labor Day weekend outside of Cincinnati, OH. Following a tense Q&A session — during which, the congresswoman was booed for acknowledging that the Constitution is a living document — Schmidt engaged in a heated conversation with a birther off-stage. At the conclusion of their exchange, Schmidt whispered to the birther, “I agree with you, but the courts don’t.”
Think Progress attended the event and captured exclusive video of the exchange. Watch it:
As Schmidt spoke to the birther, one of her staffers spotted the ThinkProgress camera and used his body to push the cameraman out of view of the congresswoman. ThinkProgress continued to film Schmidt from a respectful distance, but was again stopped by another staffer who grabbed the cameraman by the arm and ordered him to “go away.”
Schmidt was among the members of Congress featured in Firedoglake’s Know Your Birthers video. In the FDL video, Schmidt can be seen running away from blogger-activist Mike Stark when he asked whether or not she has any questions about President Obama’s citizenship status.
In July, following her 15 minutes of YouTube fame, Schmidt’s office issued a statement to Ohio’s Loveland Magazine to clarify her views:
The President is indeed a Citizen of this country. I voted as a Member of the House to certify the vote of the Electoral College electing him as our President. I may not agree with his politics but there is no doubt he is our President and has my full respect as such.
Schmidt’s exchange with the birther this weekend directly contradicts her July statement. The footage appears to indicate that Schmidt is a closet birther who questions the citizenship of the President.
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I don’t think that she is a closet birther.
I think that she is a slimebag who will do and say anything to stay in office.
She is emblematic of the repiggie disconnect with any trace of honesty.
Screw her, screw the repiggies, and screw the teabagger trash.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pmWhat an ugly, stupid, mean little woman.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pmDidn’t birtherism go out of style already? Tsk – some whackjobs are just, like, so two months ago.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pmThe GOP knows they cant win without the troglydite vote so they are stuck with appeasing them and throwing them red meat. They cant survive without them so now they are captive of their stupidity and insanity
September 8th, 2009 at 4:52 pmspineless, flip flopping Schmidtyfish.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pmtypical repiggie bull-schmidt..
September 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pmWhile the wicked witch lawmaker of Ohio is spewing crapola to the wingnut birthers, she should be worrying about her own case which is ignored in the media: Schmidt v. Krikorian Hearing and FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ testimony. The media is asleep on the wheel on Ms. Edmonds’ explosive teztimony.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7391
September 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pmThe poor Reichwhiners flee the truth. No wonder they’re fresh out of ideas. They no longer operate in the same world of cause and effect that the rest of us occupy.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pmShorter Schmidt: Screw what the judges say, they dont know law like we do.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:59 pmEugeneDebs says:
The GOP knows they cant win without the troglydite vote so they are stuck with appeasing them and throwing them red meat. They cant survive without them so now they are captive of their stupidity and insanity
Yes and the sad part is they can not win with there red meat base as its just to small of a percentage. If they want back into power they will have to come to realize this.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:59 pmFYT TP
September 8th, 2009 at 5:00 pmDrop the public antics, we know you jellyfish politicians are actually a single party beholden to the money power and would sell your grandmother AND your grandfather into debt slavery.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:02 pmHe cant be president according to our feeble minds!!
/snark
September 8th, 2009 at 5:06 pmA Republican who says one thing but actually believes another?
Say it isn’t so!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:07 pm…the congresswoman was booed for acknowledging that the Constitution is a living document…
The teabaggers want the Constitution to be dead?
September 8th, 2009 at 5:10 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
That birfer reminds me of watchpuppy.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:11 pmActually it is great question to ask the members of Congress who go along with the birthers: “If you believed Obama was not a Citizen why did Dick Cheney stand up at a joint session of Congress announce the results of the electoral college? Do you believe that Dick Cheney is part of a conspiricy to install a non-citizen as President?” Or how about “Why did you attend the session of Congress announcing that Obama was elected if you believed he was not a citizen?”
September 8th, 2009 at 5:12 pmBush raised the debt ceiling because of the Iraq War and his tax cuts to the wealthy. President Obama has to raise the debt ceiling because of Bush’s fu(kups. So keep your stupid mouth shut. You are part of the problem, you a$$.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:14 pmContradiction, yes.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:15 pmHypocrite, yes.
Schmidt typifies the lack of integrity of the repugs.
When George W. Bush raised the debt ceiling, Democrats in control of Congress, including then-Sen. Obama, blasted the President.
Please take a look at this…
http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP.gif
… do you notice anything strange?
And then please explain how to recover from a recession without Government spending…
I await your wisdom.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pmI recall she fell into a puddle of puke! Certainly she spews her share of it on a daily basis!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:18 pmpfatuchi, let me remind you of what the guy YOU voted for thinks:
“Deficits don’t matter. Reagan proved that.”
— Vice President Dick Cheney
September 8th, 2009 at 5:18 pmParanoia is inevitable in a lie based reality.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:20 pm“Deficits don’t matter…just as long as a reich-winger is causing the deficit.”
September 8th, 2009 at 5:20 pm~Teabagging 101
pfatuchi: “People say the funniest things, and then later say even more funny things.”
“The Clinton proposal for health care will triple the deficit!”
— Dick Cheney, 1994
“Deficits don’t matter. Reagan proved that.”
— Dick Cheney, 2001
September 8th, 2009 at 5:21 pmThe nicest thing I can say about Jean Schmidt, is that she’s one hell of an obnoxious woman.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:24 pmshe is so full of schmidt
September 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pmpfatuchi says:
then-Sen. Obama, blasted the President.
“Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices…”
I don’t see a problem here. Senator Obama was blasting then President Bush for making “bad choices”.
President Obama is proposing that the choices being made now will lead us out of the hole that the previous administration put us in, and provide on-going access to proper health care for not only this generation, but for all to follow.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pmwhat a schmidthead
September 8th, 2009 at 5:26 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
If Jean Schmidt & company were telling the truth,then they have nothing to hide, and they should not worry about TP camera.
But since they know that they were selling lies to their audience ,then they don’t want the outside world to see them.
I am glad that TP was their to expose Jean’s lies.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:27 pmshe acts like her schmidt don’t stink
September 8th, 2009 at 5:27 pmSTORM says:
You are a liar. YOu dont think. You have never thought in your life you ignorant punkass troll. You are far too stupid to even TRY to think. You dont have the equipment to think. You are stupid. You regurgitate what you were TOLD to think. You repeat like the ignorant propaganda parrot you are. You are a punk. You are a moron. You are NOT a thinker and you never will be
September 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pmfurthermore, I don’t like her schmidtty attitude
September 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pmI would feel that these scumbags are just hammering nails in their own coffins – except that the dems are such cowards and won’t stand up to them
September 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pmThey just can’t seem to accept the fact that the spending under Obama is, about 80% depending on who’s numbers are used, emergency spending to address various crises that he inherited.
And, while it would be satisfying to see a little more direct confrontation, it’s clear to any sane observer that President Obama is doing precisely the job he was hired for. Namely, to restore reason and integrity to the office of President.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pmpoor little storm, reduces all women to sexual objects and wonders why none of them will sleep with him
September 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pmshe’s dumber than a bag of schmidt
September 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pmSucking up to dummies is easy,
just ask Mrs. Schmidt.
They’ll believe anything,
except the truth.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pmgee dubya thought he looked tough wearing his schmidtkicker boots on his pretend ranch
September 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pmhere i sat
September 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pmbut since departed
tried to schmidt
but only farted
i just found this thing advertised in my AAA magazine…
might be worth the bucks – doesn’t look like a camera!
http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_mino.shtml
September 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pmGotta love the Stormpooper.
“Nancy Pelosi was ugly first!” :P
September 8th, 2009 at 5:37 pmI’m not so sure, muzz. If the GOoPers were making logical arguments then the Dems would have to respond in kind. However, the fantastic batscat comming from the Reichwhiners doesn’t really deserve to be dignified with a response. There is a danger that the crazy conspiracies would take more hold if the Dems answered them as though they had any particular merit.
And, frankly, I’m still enjoying watching the Reichwhiners descend into complete madness in their attempts to vilify our President and, incidentally, the majority of the electorate. Their calling us all “socialist, fascist, communist, satanist, traitors” doesn’t seem to be gaining them much ground with thinking people. I say let ‘em rave on.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pmaww, poor little stormy, got his feewings hurt and is stomping around the thread, giving everyone vote downs, as if that will change his diaper
September 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pm…his schmidtty diaper
September 8th, 2009 at 5:40 pmme too, pete
rave on, lunatic fringe!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:42 pmpete – yea, I love watching them sink into an ocean of scum, lies, and absurdity, but I am afraid that a significant portion of the US population is dumber than a bucket of hair, and falls for this garbage without even giving it a second thought.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:42 pmThe losers are going to be sore the whole term.
These questions of citizenship are in no way legitimate. It’s a dead-end argument that will never go anywhere. The thing is, they lose all credibility on any other subject. They have no respect for verified facts or logical conclusions.
The earth has never been flat, and it still isn’t flat.
Now, if Obama was appointed instead of elected, there might be a legitimate question of his eligibility.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pmStorm: “She’s ugly! Ha hahaha!”
That’s the kind of hard-hitting, fact-based political commentary people have come to expect from intelligent conservatives like Storm.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pmHow is someone that is as mentally challenged as this woman is allowed to vote in Congress?
September 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
no stormy, it’s because you don’t think anything you aren’t told to think by the right wing ‘fraidycats on the radio
BOO!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pmBecause I don’t think like an Obama bot?
How would you know, if you were programmed?
Jeeze, these guys are actually getting more stupid.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pmThe “Voice of America Tea Party” ?
Now THAT’Sone hell of an oxymoron.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pmMathazar says:
The “Voice of America Tea Party” ?
Now THAT’Sone hell of an oxymoron.
I dunno… wouldn’t the voice of a ‘tea party’ be a whistling kettle?
A whole bunch of hot air escaping as a loud piercing whine sounds like an accurate description for this event to me…
September 8th, 2009 at 5:52 pmYour going to have to forget what some words mean. One, for instance is liberal, we all know what it doesnt mean. Poor, welfare, hollywood, hippies etc etc etc.
So lets go back to the more original intent of the word in that it means individual. So, in that definition Obama Bot thinking cannot exist. Now, if your one of those hive brainers that want everyone to follow the same Lord, God, religion and core values, thats just cookie cutter thought.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:55 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Storm: “Because I don’t think like an Obama bot?”
Fixed Storm: “Because I don’t think.”
September 8th, 2009 at 5:56 pmSTORM says:
You dont think at ALL you brainwashed stupid punkass troll. You are too stupid to think. You have no brain. You are programmed. You are incapable of thinking. You are a moron
September 8th, 2009 at 5:57 pmThis is nothing more than pandering. When will voters ever learn that politicians will say what they think the voters want to hear?
September 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pmMathazar says:
The “Voice of America Tea Party” ?
I would imagine it sounds like when someone sticks a finger in there mouth and makes a cork popping sound, exceot the cork is a teabag.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pmkaty says:
– doesn’t look like a camera!
I have one, you can put a string on it and wear it around your neck, no one suspects you are “filming” them, I use it at political gatherings, but here in Seattle there are very few “neanderthals”.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pmStorm: “Everyone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?”
Because Democrats are always the major party that best represents my interests. This is not the result of programming.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:59 pmSTORM says:
Everyone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
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No MORON everyone has NOT been programmed many of us think for ourselves. YOU on the otherhand are so stupid you cant even concieve of thinking for yourself. You are a sad, stupid, pathetic hiveminder.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pmEveryone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
I’ll answer for myself, Storm.
I vote for Democrats in the hopes that enough will be elected to enact real change in this country so that we have better healthcare, a better educational system and a more robust economy.
Democratic policies would benefit both myself and the majority of Americans.
Why people continue to vote AGAINST their interests and support a Republican party that caters to the extremely wealthy at the EXPENSE of both our citizens and economy is beyond me…
…perhaps you have some insight. I doubt it, but perhaps…
September 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThe problem, muzz, is that they don’t obey logic as we do. I read an article about the Reichwing mind that has some interesting findings.
They found that 34% of GOoPers who were told that Saddam had WMD continue to believe it without question. However, among the group who was then shown the data that proved Saddam didn’t have WMD that number spiked to 74%. Refuting the lie actually reinforced it in what the author termed the “backfire effect”.
That’s why I think that the best tactic is to simply ignore them. It’s impossible to educate them so engaging them just doesn’t have an upside.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:01 pmWasn’t Jean Schmidt goose-stepping in the Congress a few years ago? where does she get off being a bigot?
September 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pmOkay, who put the alum powder on the wanker?
September 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pmJust when I thought Mean Jean Schmidt couldn’t get less likeable.
PS The GOP should hate her too since she said the Young Republicans reminded her of Hitler Youth.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pmI vote for Dems most of the time because they come closer to my political philosophy and are not quite as venal and evil as the average Republican
September 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pmMost Repigs put a happy face on their bigotry and hide behind it. Jean Schmidt’s bigotry is all whips, chains, and army boots – right up front. Other than that she’s just like all the other Rethugs.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pmI agree if your talking about DNA, but even then every human has some 100 mutations in its DNA that werent programmed.
Please elborate.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm*elaborate
*sigh*
September 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pmThe GOP is absolutely controlled by the wackiest wingnuts this country has to offer.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:09 pmI think it’s probably comforting for people who believe they’ve been programmed to think everyone else has been as well. When one is dealing with his own demons, it probably feels better to pretend or believe everyone else suffers the same kinds of demons.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pmSo because Stormpooper knows he’s programmed to be an idiot, he thinks no one else has any critical thinking ability.
Typical.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pmSTORM says:
Everyone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
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Simple: Republicans have been failures for the past thirty years. They are liars. They live off dirty tricks. They stand for nothing that is good for the masses of citizens. They are too silly to understand they are carrying water for corporations. The main reason today is that the GOP has been overtaken by the right wing fringe lunatics that William F. Buckley fought so hard to keep out of the fold for so many years. The GOP is being run by lunatics.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pmI voted “straight tickets” in the last two elections because the GOP is now populated by greedy, moronic, parodies of humanity. While it gives me no particular satisfaction, the plain fact is that there’s only one viable party in this country. And it sure as Hell ain’t the GOP.
Heck! The average GOoPer is so delusional that they can’t recognize fact from fiction. That, to me, disqualifies them from public service.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pmI go with the people who identify themselves because they treat other people better than most self identified republicans do.
They are more compassionate, more forgiving, realize that we all march to our own beat, they listen to many viewpoints and dont denigrate those that dont follow their ideology verbatim.
Look at the democratic party, its a very loose knit group, hardly communist, and not in any way wanting to create a communist society, all the talk of Marxism is complete BS. Marxism is crap to me. Its psychological BS meant to empower a few over the many. Religion, I like religion for the most part but I dont like people telling me that my soul needs to be saved, that I will burn in hell if I dont listen to them, become them. That kind of prosyletizing I dont care for,
September 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pmEveryone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
Because they act like Americans should act. Republicans act like greedy hogs, who don’t care who they hurt, as long as they can get rich.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:20 pmSTORM says:
Everyone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
I choose for myself, those who have MY best interests and the best interests of AMERICA at heart – not their fat wallets or their vile bigotry. If they are Democrats, I’ll vote for them.
Party does NOT come first with me.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:21 pmSo, No, the unlected democrats, my POV, are not Marxists [outdated crap] are not in any way communal, nor do they want government to tell people where to work, what they are best suited for, what their pay will be, where they will live.
If you listen to some demonizing pundit they will tell you what they dont know but believe to be true. Forget them.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pmThe only reason party ever comes first for me is pragmatism. The Greens better represent my opinions, but they have no chance at wielding any political muscle until they take the time to grow from the town, to the county, to the state and so on. In fact, at this point, they’re a detriment to progress. If it were not for the Greens, a million Iraqis and thousands of Americans wouldn’t be staring up at us from the ground.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:27 pmI might add that, while making my decision about who to vote for, I did consider criminal records and education history. If any of the local Dems had been convicted criminals or had been educated at a religious “college”, I would have had to go to third party, or independent, candidates.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pmSTORM says: Everyone has been programmed to some degree
Not me I was raised by apes.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:36 pmSTORM says:
Everyone has been programmed to some degree. Why do you vote for Democrats?
> Because I watched in horror in August 2006 when Katrina hit and America allowed people to drown and die in New Orleans due to ‘heckuva job Brownie’ and Dubya running the government. Nope, Cheney had to cower in his bunker and Dubya had to read “My Pet Goat”, and Condi went shoe shopping.
> Because most of my friends have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and it is tough to hear of any more soldiers dying, and me being afraid one of my friends is next. There is no reason for any of them to be where they are currently.
> Because in a few years I will fall into a donut hole where I will not have a unionized teacher job yet, but I will be too old for my parents health insurance. If I get sick or hurt, I’d basically be bankrupt and my life ruined before it got started.
> Because Dubya decided to fritter away budget surpluses on frivolous tax cuts and unnecessary wars instead of maintaining the sensible course we were charted on. We might not have all of our debt paid off by now, but if we maintained that course the credit card lender (in this case China) wouldn’t eventually balk at us being a perpetual debtor nation.
> Because Republican deregulation, voodoo, yellow trickle-down, laissez-faire economic policy led to this current deep recession. Foxes don’t guard henhouses very well, and since Reagan the foxes see no farmers in sight.
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Are the Democrats perfect? Not by any stretch of the imagination. But the Republican fascists are a lotworse. I’m not voting Democratic, I’m voting against the Republicans.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:46 pmI think a troll came to town and voted down every liberal’s coment today.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:47 pmIn case Jean doesn’t know that she is a “birther”…GO HERE and tell her:
http://www.house.gov/schmidt/contact.shtml
If you need a zip code for the email form, use 45236-2981 (the zip for her Cincinnati, OH office)
September 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pmI’m still waiting for one of these birthers at a town hall to
September 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pmdemand to see Obama’s shaft, to confirm he’s been circumcised.
I hope you’re right Pete. It’s just that when I constantly see this kind of unbelievable stupidity, it’s kind of tough to have much faith in the general population. Unfortunately, I think too many people are not inquisitive, curious, or even aware that what they are told may not be the truth. Package the lies, use a lot of subliminal messaging, make it simple-stupid, and too many people will fall for it hook, line and sinker. I get more discouraged every day – and especially when I see Obama and his staff continually appeasing these whack-jobs, and striving for “bipartisanship” – it ain’t gonna happen – not with these people, not now, not ever – so forget them and move on.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:59 pmpsst… whatever you say; just vote for me ok? wink wink
September 8th, 2009 at 7:28 pmI think the Dems have a lot of material to work with for the 2010 elections. There are so many stupid statements by Republicans that it should be easy for some of them to be bounced. Obama needs to drop the pretense of bipartisanship. The Republican strategy is death by a thousand cuts; they cannot win on the major arguments so they raise all sorts of silly issues. I hope the public figures this out sooner than later because then public opinion polls will change.
September 8th, 2009 at 7:32 pmwhen will these assclowns learn every cellphone is capable of filming video which can easily be posted on youtube?
September 8th, 2009 at 7:38 pmI had forgotten all about her. Is there any woman in politics in the Republic party that isn’t bat $hit insane?
September 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pmBirthers are so yesterday. REAL wingnuts are now afterbirthers. They want to see the placenta to prove BO was really born.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:01 pmProof positive that the GOP has been overrun by lunatics and asshats. Even their Members of Congress feel obligated to continuously feed the rantings of these drooling lowlifes, just to keep a job.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:04 pmRantingTommy says:
she is so full of schmidt
L O L … good roll there! i read up from my #43… funny!
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yes, buckie boy – that’s what i thought… handy movie camera!
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Ape-Man says:
… all whips, chains, and army boots – right up front.
uh huh… check out the mini-schmidt trying to screen/protect mean jean…
September 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pmhmmmmm…
Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:
I had forgotten all about her. Is there any woman in politics in the Republic party that isn’t bat $hit insane?
Nope. And I can’t think of any sane men who are still GOoPers either. Let’s face it, they have turned “conservatism” into a mental disease.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:12 pmRepubs: liars. liars, liars. Which TV character was it that said, “God’ll get you for that!” – a warning to these Repub/GOP/right wing pundits. God will!
September 8th, 2009 at 8:19 pm… have always voted (D), since ‘72… my first… a major disappointment…
became a determined and avowed Democratic voter as retribution for
the most embarrassing political witch hunt in USA history –
the impeachment of a successful president for a blowjob…
i really really REALLY hate “republicans” these days…
really.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:04 pmBea Arthur said “God will get you for that” when she played Maude.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:26 pmStorm said,
September 8th, 2009 at 9:27 pmI do not always vote for Democrats, but I will never again vote for a Republican.
Jean Schmidt is a two-faced lying c*nt. Pardon my French. American translation: she is a Republican
STORM=The Filthy Cur is a thread derailing, lowly troll. Although I will make one point that may have been missed and will surely be lost on la nina: Republicans are incompetent at governing. I challenge our troll to name ONE piece of Republican written legislation that was enacted within the last fifty years that solely benefitted the average American WITHOUT enriching the upper class exponentially (sp?) more! Heck I’ll give you seventy five years! Cur?
September 8th, 2009 at 9:44 pmCur? Here doggy!
September 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm“Mean Jean” from wiki:
During debate on adopting the rule for debating the resolution, H. Res. 563, Schmidt said:
Yesterday I stood at Arlington National Cemetery attending the funeral of a young Marine in my district. He believed in what we were doing is the right thing and had the courage to lay his life on the line to do it. A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body — that we will see this through.[29]
Schmidt’s remarks threw the House into an uproar and earned her the sobriquet “Mean Jean”. Many Democrats saw it an attack against Murtha, a 38-year Marine Corps veteran. After she said “cowards cut and run, Marines never do,” angry Democrats nearly drowned out her words. Victor F. Snyder, a former Marine, of Arkansas demanded that Schmidt’s remarks be “taken down.” Under this disciplinary procedure, the House clerk would have re-read Schmidt’s words and the presiding officer (at the time, Michael K. Simpson of Idaho) would have ruled whether they were parliamentary.[30]
After 10 minutes, Schmidt asked for and received permission to withdraw her remarks and apologized to Murtha.[31]
A spokeswoman for Bubp said that the state representative “did not mention Congressman Murtha by name nor did he mean to disparage Congressman Murtha” and that he felt “the words that Congresswoman Schmidt chose did not represent their conversation.” The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Bubp said “he never mentioned. . . Murtha . . . by name when talking with Schmidt, and he would never call a fellow Marine a coward.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schmidt
September 9th, 2009 at 12:04 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FZ_nxmf0Y&feature=PlayList&p=861005A2B7D3BC7A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14
September 9th, 2009 at 12:07 amSpoof on Mean Jean!
http://crooksandliars.com/2005/11/20/snl-spoofs-fox-news-bush-and-jean-schmidt
September 9th, 2009 at 12:11 amJean Schmidt-for-brains is the ultimate political whore, she will do or say anything a voter wants to hear.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:02 amI sense that you take Rep. Schmidt’s batscat personally, cowboyneok. If it’s any conciliation? I live just two blocks outside Shelly Bachmann’s (InsaneR-Mn.) District.
Jean may be as mean as Crazy Shelly but, she can’t quite match the level of mental dysfunction and sheer wackiness.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:12 amSchmidt v. Krikorian Hearing Offers ‘High Drama’
‘High drama at the otherwise sleepy Ohio Elections Commission’…
LATE UPDATE: HEARING CONTINUED TO OCT. 1, SIBEL EDMONDS COULD TESTIFY; MORE: SUGGESTS FBI TESTIMONY AS WELL…
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7391
September 9th, 2009 at 1:29 amKrikorian says that Schmidt, co-chair of the Congressional Turkish Committee, accepted more money from Turkish interests during last year’s campaign than any other member of Congress, despite few, if any, ethnic Turks among her local constituency. He has suggested she may have been instrumental in helping to hold off a Congressional vote on a long-proposed, much-disputed resolution declaring the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during WWI as a “genocide” by the Turks.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7374
September 9th, 2009 at 1:33 amHow Jean Schmidt “WON” against Paul Hackett. “Won” as in “lost”!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00186.htm
September 9th, 2009 at 1:35 amRep. Schmidt, go away.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:50 amThey closed the Voice of America relay station 15 yrs. ago and this is the kind of crap that goes on there now. Boehner was there also along with that nut case Willy Cunningham.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:24 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pmIt’s a major difference between Dems and Republicans. Van Jones resigned because of a petition he signed. Republicans resist resigning even when they’ve broken the law. lazer epilasyon
September 15th, 2009 at 6:51 am