Rep. Steve King calls Obama administration the ‘gangster government.’
Rep. Steve King calls Obama administration the ‘gangster government.’
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), one of the right wing’s most shameless hate-mongers, has propagated all sorts of baseless attacks on Obama. For example, he has said Obama will make America a “totalitarian dictatorship,” that Obama was raised by polygamists, and that “radical Islamists” would be “dancing in the streets” if Obama was elected. In an interview with the Washington News Observer, King offered his latest diatribe, calling Obama’s team of advisers the “gangster government”:
Valerie Jarrett is a product of Chicago politics. This is power politics through Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, son and daughter of Saul Alinsky, linked up with Mayor Daley, the one that actually hired Michelle Obama and put her into that link, which may have well been the link that put Barack Obama into that machine. The Chicago Machine, we know what it is. Someone called it gangster government. In Chicago, you have gangester government and Valerie Jarrett’s been in the middle of that. She’s been brokering power for a long time.
Watch it:
King’s attack on Valerie Jarrett comes on the heels of Glenn Beck’s repeated screeds against her on his show.
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The GOP is the crazy party with people like this moron in it.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:44 amYeah, man, that Obama is a pansy Jimmy Carter type who murders his enemies Chicago-style. A total Chamberlain-appeasment Hitler-facist, you dig? This Muslim Athiest takes his marching orders directly from Reverend Wright. That’s why he hasn’t changed anything except for turning America into a Socialist wasteland.
P.S. Health care is death, pass it on.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:46 amPhew. The reek of desperation.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:46 amFine, so why isn’t he sleeping with the fishies? Far as I know, you disrespect da boss, you gotta pay a price y’know?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:47 amOf course, I’m talking about Rep. Steve King here.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:48 amWatch out, vote-down troll; Obama will have you ground up to fill one of his Chicago-style pizzas. Did I mention Chicago?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:51 amI’m so confused. Is the Obama administration a do-nothing government that hasn’t fixed the economy or created jobs or accomplished anything, or is it a totalitarian dictatorship that has completely overturned the foundations of capitalism and democracy?
If the conservanuts are right, it’s both. How can that be?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:51 am‘Gangster’ Government? These as*es had NO problem when Bush spent our childrens future for these god forsaken wars. Rep. King can pound sand.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:52 am“The Chicago Machine, we know what it is. Someone called it gangster government.”
That wasn’t just someone, that was the ‘Minnesota Minx with Moxie’, Michelle Bachmann (June 10, 2009).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXyhKXUP7PM
November 12th, 2009 at 10:53 amWasn’t this moron one of the most vociferous jackasses when it came to “supporting the president during a time of war” ; did we leave both Iraq and Afghanistan , and I simply missed it ?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:53 amNo worries, folks – I just reported orangy to flag@whitehouse.gov. Chicago-style thugs from ACORN and SEIU should be arriving at his doorstep momentarily to take him off to a FEMA Reeducation Camp. We’ll make a good little socialist out of him yet.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:53 amorangy says:
“Terrorists did dance in the street when Obama won, too.”
Terrorists did dance in the street when Bush won, too.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:55 amorangy says:
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King is right. Terrorists did dance in the street when obama won, too.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:49 am
With ‘1st hand’ info like that , I can only ask : What are you doing hanging around/watching terrorists dance and not reporting them , you GOP nut hugging jackass ?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:56 amI just wish that these A-holes thats all of them repugs, hate radio etc… would just once get some thing right.
they could not hit water while in a canoe using oars.
At lease once please have some thing to say.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:56 amWait, are we talking about the original Broadway run of Chicago, or the Tony Award-winning revival?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:57 amorangy says:
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Lie much?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Talking to yourself , worm ?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:58 amIt’s one thing to level charges and accusations against the current administration based on fact and rational discourse.
King, however, is a delusional ass. He’s destined to fill the role for the Obama administration that Dan Burton had during the Clinton administration.
Remember Dan Burton? The one who shot a pumpkin in his backyard to show that Clinton had Vince Foster murdered? The one who believed Clinton had his Secretary of Commerce assassinated in Croatia and covered up to look like a plane crash?
Playing to your base is one thing; every politician does it. Rep. King’s base seems to consist of mental patients and Birchers.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:59 amThis is the same guy who skipped his son’s wedding to go to Bachman’s rally. What a dirt-bag.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:00 amPresident Obama Responds to Peter King’s Gangster Comment:
OBAMA: “Now let me be clear…you’ll never take me alive, see? I own this joint, and you better shut your yap or I’ll be writing you an eviction notice—with a lead typewriter see!”
November 12th, 2009 at 11:00 amNah. Definitely the Academy Award winning Hollywood production. You know how those liberal elitist gangster types love some Hollywood.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:01 amHe supported the Bush/Cheney regime totally.
Who is he to criticize anyone else?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:01 amThe absence of any real facts in this diatribe is just stunning. “Some call it a gangster government,” “nefarious …” On WHAT BASIS does this guy get off calling it “gangster?” Is King bringing in elements of racism here? And what is so nefarious about the Obama administration? Did Obama declare two wars, one based on lies, both of which have bankrupted our country? Out an undercover CIA agent? Tap our phones illegally? Hold prisoners without trial for YEARS?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:01 amOh. That was Bush-Cheney …
Steve, why don’t you just call President Obama Al Capone and be done with it? You know you want to.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:02 am-King is a jackass
November 12th, 2009 at 11:03 am-the republican party is useless
-you can’t talk to these putzes, much less work with them
-so, Obama tell them to pound salt,they have no intention of working with you, at all
-orangy is a dumbass
tony and lido
More like the wall street administration
November 12th, 2009 at 11:04 amP.D. says: This is the same guy who skipped his son’s wedding to go to Bachman’s rally. What a dirt-bag.
For all you know, P.D., his son may be a dirtbag too. Not every child rebels against the parents, and plenty expand upon the cues their parents have given them (see Bush, George W.)
November 12th, 2009 at 11:05 amOught to just name DC and all its congress critters the wall street kiss ass society.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:05 ammissmolly says:
Steve, why don’t you just call President Obama Al Capone and be done with it? You know you want to.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:02 am
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Oh, great. So now we have to watch Geraldo opening Obama’s secret vault live on Fox News. I wonder what deep dark secrets will be revealed – the President’s stash of Marlboro Lights?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:06 amI see orangy is back with his words of wisdom. Why do we always get the bottom of the barrel when it comes to teabag trolls? Why can’t troll central send us some smarter trolls?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:07 amAnd King you are part of that. May as well just put a red WS on the back of your jacket.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:07 amevangenital says:
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He supported the Bush/Cheney regime totally.
Who is he to criticize anyone else?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Ummmm ……..A Republican.
Hypocrisy ; it’s what the GOP is all about …………….
November 12th, 2009 at 11:09 amThey’re saving their best and brightest for sweeps week. Or the State of the Union Address.
Then again, here’s a scary though: What if orangy IS the best and brightest?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:09 amEnnuiDivine says:
God, I hadn’t thought of that. Scary…
November 12th, 2009 at 11:10 amMCMetal says: “did we leave both Iraq and Afghanistan , and I simply missed it ?”
No, but the Republicans left Afghanistan in April 2003, and Iraq probably in early 2008 when the election campaigns kicked-off. The said they were just popping out for a pack of cigarettes but they haven’t been seen since.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:11 amIf the Obama administration is a “gangster government”, then it stands to reason, if we use Rep. King’s criteria, the Bush administration was the equivalent of KAOS from the Get Smart television series. KAOS is described as an “international organization of evil” — oh and they were also, just like Bush/Cheney, supremely incompetent.
Just saying . . .
November 12th, 2009 at 11:13 amI see little Orangy is here again with his hands and tiny thingy the same color of Boehner’s face. Orangy must love him some “boner”, you betcha!
November 12th, 2009 at 11:13 am5th Estate says:
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MCMetal says: “did we leave both Iraq and Afghanistan , and I simply missed it ?”
No, but the Republicans left Afghanistan in April 2003, and Iraq probably in early 2008 when the election campaigns kicked-off. The said they were just popping out for a pack of cigarettes but they haven’t been seen since.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:11 am
And here I believed all those cigarette “outings” were after sex-with-male-pages breaks…………Learn something new every day here ………….
November 12th, 2009 at 11:14 amLizA35, We can only dream. How about a King/Palin ticket? Or better yet, a Palin/King ticket? I doubt Queen Sarah would want the No. 2 spot.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:14 amI’ve missed you, toasterhead — where have you been?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:15 amThe repiggies are morally repugnant and brain-dead.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:15 amIf you play Rep. Kings ridiculous guilt by association game you can just as easily connect Bush 43 to everyone from Nixon to Bin Laden.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:15 amangels81 says:
I see orangy is back with his words of wisdom. Why do we always get the bottom of the barrel when it comes to teabag trolls? Why can’t troll central send us some smarter trolls?
LOL>>>>> what makes you think that this is not there top of the line troll.
LOL
November 12th, 2009 at 11:16 amThat’s saved for Vitter.
(hopefully I don’t need to explain that one)
November 12th, 2009 at 11:17 amRep. King lives in cloud cuckoo land. I wish President Obama was as ruthless as a gangster or a dictator, especially regarding a strong public option for health insurance. The bill would have already passed!
November 12th, 2009 at 11:17 amDave@46, LOL! But eewww…
November 12th, 2009 at 11:19 amcheney was a gangster. He outed a cia agent.
Come up with some facts king or be judged as whimsicle.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:20 amI say let the new teabag party run Palin/Bachmann, and the repugs can run a King/Inhofe ticket. Boy I’ll buy drinks for everyone with that.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:20 amPennsylvanianne says: Did Obama [...] Tap our phones illegally? Hold prisoners without trial for YEARS?
All valid points.
However, I for one have no clue if the phone-tapping has been stopped, and Obama now ‘owns’ the prisoners held without trial, about which he has done nothing.
In the last case especially he has a huge problem in that he’s dependent on the intelligence community and the military whilst we are still ‘engaged’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:22 amOnce we end those involvements, he should be able to do something about the illegally held prisoners. I doubt there will be any accountability though, just closure and compensation.
I’d like to see more like an old NWA gangsta gnagsta: ‘…If ya fck with me I’ll put a foot in yur azz…’
They’re already scared, scare the fck out of them. Get mean. Time for nice is long gone.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:26 amWith Kings attack I count at least 29 instances since inauguration where a influential prominent right-winger (member of Congress, talk-radio/TV host, journalist etc) has publicly compared Obama to mobsters, thugs and criminals.
Of course they never offer any rational explanations for their accusations, just guilt by association, insinuations, and speculations. Obama once met with X, ergo Obama=X and since Obama=X his administration is a gangster government
November 12th, 2009 at 11:31 ammissmolly says:
I’ve missed you, toasterhead — where have you been?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:15 am
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Awww, that’s very sweet of you! I’ve had a few busy weeks, and needed a mental break from trollwhacking for a while. :)
November 12th, 2009 at 11:31 amgalmud says:
Obama once met with X, ergo Obama=X and since Obama=X his administration is a gangster government
November 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am
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That’s cause you haven’t studied conservalogic. See, that’s just the conservalogic Law of Associative Syllogism. Meeting with X, speaking with X, living in the same city as X, serving on a committee with X, being endorsed by X, makes you equivalent to X by association. Then you just follow through to Y, Z, and beyond by the Law of Slippery Slopage.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:36 amWell, it looks like Rep. King has finally flipped his wig.
Mental illness is a serious problem and people should not joke about it. Although Rep. King has been an “invitee” at numerous psychiatric care homes, it now appears he will be a permanent guest at one of them.
For years, people have speculated about Rep. King’s disturbing personality. Although alcohol and drugs were suspected, Rep. King refused to be examined by competent medical personnel. He had his friends do his checkups and mental stability tests.
In an exclusive interview with republicanSScareme, King revealed that he had spent his youth living in a “hippy camp” with Glenn Beck. “Let’s just say we were out in the woods,” King explained. He and Glenn used to discuss their superstitions and fear of witches. “Glenn thought he was a witch,” King revealed. “I never disagreed with him because he would get real mad.”
“I never thought I was a witch, but I did think I was a gobbollin,” King added. “I just never thought I would flip before I was 70.”
Condolence cards can be sent to Rep. King at the Tescadero State Mental Hospital.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:39 amTranslated from Republican into English, “The Obamaistas and the Demo-Crips are the ‘Bad Niggah’ government”. This is what the Tea Baggers and RW foamers hear.
Cheers,
November 12th, 2009 at 11:41 amYou guys and Kudlow need to get on the stick: “Gangster Government” isn’t a new term.
It’s been around for decades, and it’s pure dogwhistle to the teabagger crowd.
It’s chapter and verse in their cannon, just like “we the people,” or “patriot,” or “militia.” When any politician mentions any of these terms he’s screaming out to the wackos — that he’s one of them, that he believes the gov’t wants to swoop down in black helicopters, that the income tax is unconstitutional, that Tim McVeigh and David Koresh were heros murdered by the gov’t, that the Fed should be abolished, and that gold is the only legitimate medium of exchange.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:42 amIs it true King is having an affair with Bachmann?
Hmmmm,
Missing your Son’s wedding to be at a rally, err, press conference.
Bachmann fawning over King in public. Actually, she was drooling, which really turns King on.
They both have a thing about gangsters in government, too.
I repeat, Is it true King is having an affair with Bachmann?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:47 amZimzone says:
I repeat, Is it true King is having an affair with Bachmann?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:47 am
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Don’t know, but I’ll be sure to spread the rumor as much as possible, since the mainstream media is obviously covering it up. It is unquestionably true that it has been alleged that Steve King is having an affair with Michele Bachmann, and I am well within my rights as an American to ask questions about it.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:50 amWhere do the Republicans hate middle America?
November 12th, 2009 at 11:50 amHoly moly – someone please catch my eyeballs – they rolled right outta my head and they’re skittering across the floor!!!!
Oh man. These wingnuts sure do bring the crazy.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:51 amNo doubt this is just more racist innuendo (i.e., “black gangsta”) from the deranged and marginalized teabaggers. Good riddance. Welcome to permanent minority status, you filth.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:52 amHere are a few King accusations about Obama and his administration you missed:
“Obama and Michelle are brother and sister”
“Obama’s birth certificate is printed on a paper towel”
“The Obama administration meets for a barbecue at the home of William Ayers every Saturday”
“The Oval Office is rented out to SNL for skits pillorying Fox News”
“Obama writes Keith Olbermann’s special comments”
“The secret service can’t account for Obama’s whereabouts between 2 and 3 am on Thursdays”
“Obama watches Bill Moyer’s Journal with the volume turned all the way up”
“Obama talks to God in Persian”
November 12th, 2009 at 11:55 amIt’ll be so much fun watching them disappear one by one….
November 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pm“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 12th, 2009 at 12:07 pmWe have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:13 pmFDR
King has watched too many gangster movies. He lives in a proto fantasy world permeated by idiots.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Yep, Michelle can certainly tell it like it is.
Uh…HOW many came to that health-care rally again?
Maybe she tells it like it might have been…
November 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pmDear Rep. King: The gangster government was the Bush gangster regime, which ruled us from Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2009.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:56 pmaaaw… that’s so cute…
king and bachmann
November 12th, 2009 at 12:58 pmtogether on TP
b-l-a-m-i-n-g
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Gangsta or gangster?
November 12th, 2009 at 1:33 pmtim.ned says: Opps, can I say God here?
Sure, although we prefer you NOT do so while you simultaneously masturbate to Bachman’s photo.
BTW, is “opps” a typo or a Freudian slip?
November 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pmTerrorists dancing in the streets? Gangster government? What drugs has this idiot been using? He must think all the citizens in Chicago are terrorists. The TV coverage when Obama won showed average citizens and Oprah in Grant Park. I suppose if voting Dem is considered a terrorist activity, King would be right. But that would mean we have been terrorists since 1932.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThink it over or google it.
Does your mommy and daddy know you use this kind of language?
November 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pmIf King is worried about gangster govermnment, then he needs to take a look at the gangster that was just elected governor of New Jersey. Chris Christi has known mob connections.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:04 pmWow, the GOP has really become the party of the crazies.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:21 pmAre they aiming to turn that 20% into 10%.
You’re doing a great job guys.
@ 17. Chyron HR says: Wait, are we talking about the original Broadway run of Chicago, or the Tony Award-winning revival? November 12th, 2009 at 10:57 am
And just WTF is wrong with the Edward G. Robinson or Jimmy Cagney classics, eh? Why does it have to be a musical instead of something a tacky snat more on the noir side?
Never mind. It’s obvious that the Republipimps see themselves as Dick Tracy, while it’s apparent to everyone else that they have a serious case of Fearless Fosdick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Fosdick
November 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pmActually, that would be “Farsi”.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pmCats r Flyfishn says:
If King is worried about gangster govermnment, then he needs to take a look at the gangster that was just elected governor of New Jersey. Chris Christi has known mob connections.
Tino “The Animal” Fiumara was a family friend of the Christies when Chris was growing up. Chris Christie hasn’t seen him in years. Of course, Tino has been in prison for years.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pmI don’t hold that association against the Christie family, after all it is New Jersey we’re talking about.
However naming their son Chris Christie is very redundant and I can’t forgive them for that.
Still trying to throw spaghetti against the Obama Administration to see what sticks.
Epic Fail.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:59 pm“masturbation” is a bad word?
let’s find out.
nope, I can post “masturbation” here.
huh.
:/
November 12th, 2009 at 3:25 pmThese lilly-white, upper-crust d0uchebags know NOTHING about “gansterism”.
If Obama’s admin was 1/10th as threatening as the 9th Ward Posse from Rapalot Records in Houston, these cretins would drop dead from fear alone.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:33 pmDoes anyone keep a current count of ridiculous slanders against the current WH ?
It seems to me that they are throwing everything at the fan hoping that something, anything, will stick.
There’s the political ideal axis:
Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Fascist………
There’s the national allegiance axis:
Kenyan, ?Indonesian, …..
Now the criminal axis:
Gansta (BTW – do I detect the smell of a racial slur ?)
And on the criminal axis, wasn’t it the Bush Admin that leaked data on CIA agents and lied to Congress and the UN ?
November 12th, 2009 at 4:34 pmShe’s been brokering power for a long time.
A politician who ISN’T a power broker is not a very competent politician.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:35 pmDNFP says:
These lilly-white, upper-crust d0uchebags know NOTHING about “gansterism”.
If Obama’s admin was 1/10th as threatening as the 9th Ward Posse from Rapalot Records in Houston, these cretins would drop dead from fear alone.
Yeah, Obama studied Constitutional Law at Harvard.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pmGraduated Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude and was a Constitutional Law Professor for 12 years.
That’s some real gangster sh**!
(To Republicans)
My my, don’t they sound desperate? Hopefully it’s a sign that Obama’s policies are working, so, they can’t criticize him on policy, so therefore, they have to resort to “childish” name calling. Methinks that they’re trying to deflect attention away from something. Their lack of ideas, maybe.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:43 pmWho is Steve King playing for? I read his remarks and only an idiot could draw any conclusion from his statements except King in a mental nut case. Is this the best the Republicans can offer to govern the country.
I believe King is playing for the supreme leaders of the Republican Party, Linbaugh or Beck. King wants their attention and he desperately wants to please them.
I’m not going to get my panties all notted up over this guy. Anybody who would play for Linbaugh and Beck is worth giving the time of day. This guys a true hack job.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:11 pmtim.needy
You do KNOW you are incredibly stupid and brainwashed dont you?
November 13th, 2009 at 12:43 amlet’s see here. if I understand the argument to date, King and the Republipimps allege that with President Obama and Rahm Emanuel, Dave Axelrod, etc, we got the “Crips” and the “Bloods” and probably some other street stuff in the administration and the Democratic Party. Hm. Need proof. Allegations are like opinions; any arse can spout one.
OTOH, it has been demonstrated over and over again in the last couple of years by the Republipimps that they have the “Creeps” and the “Buggers” in their legislative group and in the former administration. And no proof is needed; they keep outing themselves. Going out on them lonesome hikes to the Appalachian Trail or the men’s room at the Minneapolis airport.
In this case, I think I’ll stay with the Democratic Party. Sometimes the people you don’t know are better than the devils you do. Well, not do; I wouldn’t do a Republipimp on a double dare ya bet. (There’s an implied ‘know’ after ‘devils you do”. Makes for a terrible double entendre, but what the heck, it’s late…)
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