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Steve King derides SB-1070 judge as a Clinton appointee, forgets she was recommended and praised by Jon Kyl.

steveking2Yesterday, shortly after federal district court Judge Susan Bolton blocked key, controversial elements of Arizona’s harsh new immigration law from taking effect, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) ripped into the ruling. He alleged that Judge Bolton prioritized “protecting the [Obama] Administration’s political standing” because she was “appointed by the Secretary of State’s husband,” former president Bill Clinton:

“With the possible exception of illegal immigrants in Arizona, the people cheering the loudest about Judge Bolton’s injunction can be found in the Obama Administration,” said King. “By blocking the most important enforcement provisions of Arizona’s law, Judge Bolton has apparently decided that Arizonans’ lawful attempts to protect their lives and property is of secondary importance to protecting the Administration’s political standing among open borders advocates. I doubt Judge Bolton’s ruling will survive an appeal, and, for now, the Obama Administration should consider itself lucky to have had its day in court in front of a judge appointed by the Secretary of State’s husband.”

Apparently, King has forgotten that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), a prominent foe of President Obama’s immigration reform agenda and a defender of SB-1070, recommended Bolton for her judgeship in 2000. At her confirmation hearing, Kyl praised her “expertise and fairness” in dealing with Arizona’s concerns. Moreover, as the Wonk Room’s Andrea Nill points out, “Bolton has been described by her peers as an ‘impeccable’ and ‘fearless’ judge whose rulings are ‘well-reasoned and unambiguous.’”

- William Tomasko



155 Responses to “Steve King derides SB-1070 judge as a Clinton appointee, forgets she was recommended and praised by Jon Kyl.”

  1. Kid Charlemagne says:

    He didn’t forget anything, the wingers just say whatever they want.


  2. A Patriot Acting says:

    “At her confirmation hearing, Kyl praised her “expertise and fairness” in dealing with Arizona’s concerns. Moreover, as the Wonk Room’s Andrea Nill points out, “Bolton has been described by her peers as an ‘impeccable’ and ‘fearless’ judge whose rulings are ‘well-reasoned and unambiguous.’””

    Whereas Rep. King is just a disingenuous sef-serving prick…or in other words, your average Rethuglican


  3. Frugalchariot says:

    I love the laughter, the mocking of Kyl, the faux blaming of Clinton that the judge’s “expertise and fairness” have allowed. Her decision was proper, and will most likely remain intact till it hits the SCOTUS where the fascist majority will probably overrule the Constitution. Again. Meanwhile, let us all enjoy the idiocy currently on full public display thanks to the bowels of the conservative movement. Sotospeak.


  4. eyesopen says:

    Since when did facts get in Stave King’s way?


  5. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    well when you have a bar set as high as the tea party`s what you expect.

    bar for them is just about knee high to a snakes belly.


  6. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    Republicans don’t walk in lock step

    LOL>>>LOL>>> if one republicant stops quickly there would be 15 broken noses.

    do you have a idea what lock-step means?


  7. bambu says:

    Steve King is just a dumb, ignorant Republican along with the rest of them.


  8. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    @7

    VD

    AP: Sherrod to sue Andrew Breitbart

    yes going to be a good summer for some and a bummer for you and others.

    LOL


  9. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    First Vitter claims medical expertise and now King claims judiciary expertise. The American people need to remember, there are (obviously) no standards for running for Congress. Just a willingness to accept money.


  10. zxbe says:

    And so it begins. Attack the judge for the ruling you don’t like. Leave out important facts about who recommended her. Typical right-wing hate and revisionism.


  11. austininc4 says:

    Rep.Steve King is an IDIOT, that should be public knowledge by now.


  12. Zimzone says:

    I’d rather have Susan Bolton ruling on this than John Bolton.

    John Bolton’s answer would have been to bomb Mexico.


  13. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    it use to be

    what have you done for us lately.

    now its

    how much is this going to cost us.


  14. har5125 says:

    austininc4 says:

    Rep.Steve King is an IDIOT, that should be public knowledge by now.
    He is not just an idiot he is The King of Idiots!


  15. leftzone says:

    Isn’t Juan McCain the long-standing Senator from Arizona?
    How come he NOR Kyl has ever addressed this terrifying wave of browns into Arizona? Until now? Now that there’s a Democratic President, that is.


  16. the orj says:

    “By blocking the most important enforcement provisions of Arizona’s law, Judge Bolton has apparently decided that Arizonans’ lawful attempts to protect their lives and property is of secondary importance to protecting the Administration’s political standing among open borders advocates”

    Wrong! By blocking the law Judge Bolton has ruled that our constitution takes precedence over the wishes of racist conservative wackos!


  17. bambu says:

    Onlooker says:

    bambu says

    Lemme guess. You’re “new?” LOL!
    ———————
    Republicans are stupid and that’s nothing new.


  18. Buckie Boy (New Improved Troll Ignore) says:

    King

    Pie hole

    Spew


  19. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    Kaiser poll: Health care reform support reaches new high

    more talking points hitting the shitter.

    LOL hows that repel going.


  20. har5125 says:

    Hey onlooker a.k.a “The Avoider” here to avoid direct questions again today?


  21. Buckie Boy (New Improved Troll Ignore) says:

    bambu – Ignore Onlooker (oldhooker), it is a PAID RNC TROLL.

    PAID to disrupt and spread misinformation, not worth your time.


  22. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    Do conservatives really want there to be 50 different immigration laws in the US? That’s why it has to be federal—not state.


  23. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    @18

    VD

    LOL>>> spin, whine, cry, beg you are going down down down

    waaa blaaa waaa blaaa


  24. littlejohn says:

    Anything that upsets the Radical Right this much must be a good thing. What Arizona did was simply unconstitutional. The most egregious to me was the requirement that immigrants carry papers with them at all times. Cue up Hogan’s Heroes Major Hofstetter – “papers please!”


  25. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    If only stupid included not being able to figure out how to breed. Since it doesn’t, we get stuck with morons who think toasters are witty conversationalists.


  26. A Patriot Acting says:

    I love these Constitutional cherry-picking @ssholes. They claim that they steadfastly support the letter of the Constitution. Detaining a legal immigrant because he isn’t carrying his papers and then arresting/fining him for not carrying them infringes on his Constitutional liberties and is therefore simply UN-CONSTITUTIONAL. It’s cut and dry, so simple you would think that even your average tea bagger could wrap their peabrains around it. Then again these are the same @ssholes crying daily about losing their liberties (without being able to name even one that they lost), rail against “socialistic” healthcare reform (but don’t touch their medicare), wail over their taxes (even though they are paying LESS than they were before)…but what gets me the most about these ignorant fools is that they scream so much about the Constitution…yet ignore the fact that Federal law supercedes local law…that the Federal Government ALONE maintains the right to dictate and enforce laws regarding our borders and immigration. Constitutionalists my left nut…effin morons


  27. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    The NAACP did not edit the tape to make it say the opposite of the full version. She should win the lawsuit.


  28. zxbe says:

    Republicans don’t walk in lock step.

    ROFL.


  29. Badmoodman says:

    – - O.T. … apologies if this was posted earlier:

    Shirley is suing Breitbart.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/shirley-sherrod-to-sue-an_n_663656.html


  30. just the bleepn facts says:

    coins in the jar oldhooker, keep posting little troll. the website thanks you for your contribution to advertising revenue! ;)


  31. zxbe says:

    Badmoodman says:
    – – O.T. … apologies if this was posted earlier:

    Shirley is suing Breitbart.

    Interestingly, I don’t see this on the Fox News page. I see it on the main page of CNN. And MSNBC. But not Fox.

    Curious.


  32. Michiganmitch says:

    Onlooker says: Republicans don’t walk in lock step. Who gives a phuck if kyl “praised” her.
    ———————————————————-
    Why then do they all fear the wrath of Limbaugh? Chris Mathews has given up the dare to any Republican office holder to publically differ with Rush on anyhting after weeks of chirping crickets. Why do all members of the House and Senate vote in “lockstep” on virtually every issue of importance? This “lockstep” sh!t is sheer projection of the highest order.


  33. just the bleepn facts says:

    Unlike the Acorn case where it took the courts to obtain a copy to determine the schmucks had edited the tape, this time Breitbart has been shown to intentionally distort information to smear a public figure. That’s wrong even by bible standards! ;)


  34. MrWombat says:

    Onlooker and Martha V have a deep seated hatred of brown skinned people.


  35. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    Onlooker says:
    The NAACP did not edit the tape
    You’re right. Msnbc and cnn did.

    You lie. CNN and MSNBC did NOT edit it. They played Andrew Breitbart’s edited version.


  36. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    Judge Bolton has apparently decided that Arizonans’ lawful attempts to protect their lives and property is of secondary importance to protecting the Administration’s political standing among open borders advocates.

    No, Judge Bolton has apparently decided that Arizonans’ “attempts to protect their lives and property” was unlawful. You really don’t know what you’re talking about, Steve, do you?


  37. zxbe says:

    The Arizona law is massively popular in the United States. Over 60 percent of all American voters support it.

    According to another troll “Polls can be deceiving…”


  38. Michiganmitch says:

    Marha V. says: The real reason is to outlaw the threat of liberalism
    ———————————————————
    You want to outlaw the last best hope for humankind?


  39. just the bleepn facts says:

    Funny how the KKKons are all about the law, except when the law is “illegal” and “breaks the law”. Then they all become vigilante/terrorist criminals overnight. Fascists never change.


  40. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    You can’t even spell “forward”?


  41. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    Rangle hearing GOING FOREWARD! ROFL!!!!

    You mean it’s going to be the introduction to someone’s book? Why would that be so funny?


  42. leftzone says:

    Jesus. Is Freeperville closed today or something?


  43. zxbe says:

    Apparently the racist troll was so giddy with glee that a black person was in trouble that it couldn’t spell.


  44. Michiganmitch says:

    @45 Onlooker says: In the long term, the Bolton decision will likely be overturned by the U.S. Supreme
    ———————————————————–
    Shocker from a court that calls a corporation a person.


  45. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    @42

    New Sock alert.

    Give it VD

    laugh at it.

    it will expose who it is here soon enough.


  46. har5125 says:

    har5125 says:

    Hey onlooker a.k.a “The Avoider” here to avoid direct questions again today?
    July 29th, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    ——————————————————————————————–

    Fifteen minutes later, looks like your answer is NO!


  47. bambu says:

    Lingus-Clee says:

    #38 No one ever won a law suit for being “uppity”.
    ————————————-
    And Breitfart is sure to loose then, right?


  48. wildweasel says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  49. Michiganmitch says:

    The liberal media edited OUT the laughing, clapping and cheering
    —————————————-
    Even if that were the case, (and it isn’t) the crowd wasn’t harmed, Sherrod was so the suit goes on.


  50. zxbe says:

    Cool. The troll warned of a sock-puppet and another troll showed up.


  51. paleolib says:

    Proposed by Kyl, confirmed by a Republican senate, praised by Arizona’s governor as a reasoned jurist before the decision was handed down, yep, it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault.

    King must rattle when he shakes his head.


  52. A Patriot Acting says:

    oldhooker @ 7-

    You expect the disasterous state that Bush left our Nation in to be suddenly remedied in such a short time?? How long did it take to recover from the Great Depression @sshole? You Regressives are funny…you happily sit back while your guys are in power, spending six years royally screwing everything up from the wars, our infastructure, our Economy…deregulating everything from banking, healthcare, big oil, big coal…to disastrous effect. Then you b1tch and moan that the Democrat ni99er isn’t fixing it all fast enough? Sorry dipshit, the economy IS recovering (dispite Repub roadblocks), healthcare is a far sight better (dispite Repub roadblocks), the financial sector is coming under better control (dispite Repub roadblocks).

    Maybe if Republicans didn’t try to gring everything to a hault and lie all the time….maybe even work to honestly solve some of the problems they caused (rather than offer the same failed ideas over and over), maybe progress would move a little faster for ya ‘tard.


  53. Zimzone says:

    If Rangle’s hearing is the ‘foreward’, Jan Brewer’s statement is the epilogue.


  54. just the bleepn facts says:

    oldhooker, useful idiot alert. enjoying putting money in TP’s wallet through advertising dollars? ROTFL!


  55. just the bleepn facts says:

    whinyturd, the law is unconstitutional. what a bunch of constipated old right wing judicial activists do is anybody’s guess. they’ve smacked down several of your right wing agenda items however, so your premature speculation is just that, premature.


  56. Winski says:

    King is clearly one of the top 5 stupidest people alive…


  57. just the bleepn facts says:

    oldhooker, how’s that right wing KKKulture of KKKoruption doing these days? still in the back pocket of big oil? ;)


  58. DRxJ (FCK Enbridge Energy!) says:

    Why is Olbyslobberer purposely ignoring the actual topic of the thread?
    Maybe because he is so blinded by passion for Keith, that he doesn’t have a clue what the hell he is posting, even when presented with talking points?

    Ahhhh, true love.


  59. Xisithrus says:

    olbooger isnt it time for a moniker change?


  60. just the bleepn facts says:

    I did the numbers oldhooker, you’re funding 1 staff person by yourself with the number of posts you make, thanks to the rates they’re charging! ROTFL! ;)


  61. Frugalchariot says:

    Dumfooker says:

    In the long term, the Bolton decision will likely be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and Arizona will find itself vindicated.
    ————————————————————-

    The fascists in AZ will FEEL vindicated by what is the very probably upcoming SCOTUS decision by the 5-4 fascist majority.

    In reality, the process involving fascists feeling vindicated by fascists, while historically common, has never proven itself to be much of a virtue. And it won’t this time either.

    My question is, why don’t all of you anti-American seditious fascist treasonous twits so something decent with your lives and master the art of self-immolation? It’s not hard, and I’m sure doesn’t hurt a bit. Plus your “goal” would be met: the world would be SUCH a better place!


  62. just the bleepn facts says:

    oldhooker doesn’t realize they’re using her to drive advertising revenue. what a FU against the tpwatch dorks! ROTFL! explains why the stopped banning her when they started ads… ;)


  63. zxbe says:

    Still no mention of the Sherrod lawsuit over at Fox “News.” ABC has it. CBS. Politico. CNN. MSNBC. Huffington. Heck, even the Washington Times has it. But not Fox.

    Very curious.


  64. Zimzone says:

    The Federal 9th Court of Appeals is Republics’ worst nightmare.

    Based in San Francisco, it’s chock full of liberal judicial views.

    Trolls warn us of impending doom with this, the Nov. elections, Obama’s racism, blah de phuck’n da.

    It’s all they got. Kind of like the kid on the playground who’s biggest threat was saying, ‘I’m going home to get my Dad!’


  65. Xisithrus says:

    i suggest self trepanantion before immolation


  66. Michiganmitch says:

    @53 Frugalchariot says: Funny how the KKKons are all about the law, except when the law is “illegal” and “breaks the law”. Then they all become vigilante/terrorist criminals overnight. Fascists never change
    ————————————————
    WTF do you think this obession with perverting the 2nd Amendment is all about? A side arm gives the fat, male-pattern bald punk who was always a punk a chance to fantasize about being Palidan, the vigilante who will right all wrongs by administering immediate “justice” to them thar’ darkies, wetbacks and libruls that get out of line or that “over-reachin” gubbamint.


  67. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    Well, the nematoads are certainly earning their nickels today. It is so considerate of the more liberal type posters to contribute.

    For my 5 cents worth…morOnlooker want a pasty?


  68. ElBruce says:

    To “protect their lives and property?” WTF, is King buying into this Laredo story?


  69. Zimzone says:

    Steve King is a verbal accident waiting to find a sentence.


  70. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    It’s all they got. Kind of like the kid on the playground who’s biggest threat was saying, ‘I’m going home to get my Dad!’

    As soon as their mom can decide which guy it is.


  71. Frugalchariot says:

    Xisithrus says:

    i suggest self trepanantion before immolation
    ———————————————————–

    Hmmh. I assumed that had already been taken care of. The conservative skull drainage tube, you know.


  72. evangenital says:

    The teabagger trash have never produced any records showing George W. Bush actually reporting for reserve duty.


  73. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    @74

    VD

    now its crying about making money.
    dam you should be able to get that little red bike you wanted when you were a little cult troll.

    LOL at YOU and very hard.


  74. evangenital says:

    Steve King fingered his hookie hole with joy when the Iraq stupidity was initiated by the Bush/Cheney co-presidency.


  75. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    Hmmh. I assumed that had already been taken care of. The conservative skull drainage tube, you know.

    Their mouth?


  76. evangenital says:

    What sort of rational and intelligent adult would ever lower himself/herself to the idiocy of the birther clowns?


  77. Xisithrus says:

    they dont want big government unless its to stop some cave dwelling foreigner and remove our freedoms that terrorists hate


  78. evangenital says:

    I am just waiting for “birtherism” to descend into “after-birtherism.”

    The birthers are batshit crazy clowns.

    Who in their right mind would ever vote for such lunatics, apart from the imbeciles and nosepickers that put Bush/Cheney into office?


  79. barfly says:

    they dont want big government unless its to stop some cave dwelling foreigner and remove our freedoms that terrorists hate

    They love big government when it funds their agenda, make no mistake.


  80. RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    Maybe Stephen King should write a horror story about Steve King.
    Plenty of ammo there.


  81. evangenital says:

    The teabagger trash show themselves over and over to be fools and cretins, lacking any sort of philosophical consistency.

    Their prime motivator is their hatred of non-whites.


  82. RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    apart from the imbeciles and nosepickers that put Bush/Cheney into office?

    How dare you talk about the SCROTUS like that!
    /thnark.


  83. Zimzone says:

    Bachmann & King weren’t even born, they were excreted.

    Big steaming piles of PeeTardy doo-doo.

    Does that make them citizens?


  84. Gregor Samsa says:

    Yeah, but life is so much easier when unencumbered by facts and reality… wheeeee!!!


  85. Xisithrus says:

    onpuker, i dont support unethical acts like you apparently do so bringing up rangel isnt going to irritate me or probably anyone here for that matter.

    so take your chum bucket and, please, go.


  86. barfly says:

    Sorry if it’s already been posted, but according to Raw Story, Sherrod is suing Breitbart — and since Fox has very vocally apologized, and is distancing themselves editorially from Breitbart, he’s going down. Hard.


  87. Frugalchariot says:

    Michiganmitch says:

    @53 Frugalchariot says: [Actually, it was bleepin said it, but no worries, I agree] Funny how the KKKons are all about the law, except when the law is “illegal” and “breaks the law”. Then they all become vigilante/terrorist criminals overnight. Fascists never change
    ————————————————
    WTF do you think this obession with perverting the 2nd Amendment is all about? A side arm gives the fat, male-pattern bald punk who was always a punk a chance to fantasize about …

    ————————————————————

    … the size of his dick, or maybe it’s just the dream of having one?


  88. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    I wonder if the nematoads realize that once Rangle is done in the barrel the next contestant in ‘Distrat the Public’ is….come on down, Ensign!


  89. Zimzone says:

    Breitbart’s going down?

    On whom, Graham or King?


  90. evangenital says:

    Steve King should hook up with Joe the Plumber and make teabagger gay porn.


  91. alfoduane says:

    WHO GIVES A FUK WHAT THIS RACIAL ARSONIST SAYS


  92. MCMetal says:

    Steve King derides SB-1070 judge as a Clinton appointee

    Translation = If judges do not vote the way conservatives want , they are ‘activist judges’ …..


  93. evangenital says:

    Teabaggers have totally embraced the kookie dominionist evangelical horseshit and all its white power jargon.


  94. Xisithrus says:

    yeh, why isnt ensign or vitter or craig or sanderson being asked to resign for ethical lapses?

    see, you do support unethical acts lawnpuker



  95. barfly says:

    motomark says:

    A severed finger was delivered to the Laredo, TX police department this morning.

    Having trouble with the can opener, moto?


  96. RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    Was it Steve King’s severed finger>? If not, why are you skidding off topic again, and again, and again..?


  97. Xisithrus says:

    if it was motos finger it would have had a wanker around it?


  98. MCMetal says:

    I see OldHooker is here (typically) ; the jackwagon criticize anyone yet for being unemployed ?

    What a colossal moron ….


  99. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    A severed finger was delivered to the Laredo, TX police department this morning

    LOL>> and the cult troll spam bot community cry s for one of there own who now sadly will have to retire cause it was its cut and paste finger.

    more news at 11


  100. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    THE MEXICANS ARE INVADING! er, no…THE IRANIANS DISGUISED AS MEXICANS ARE INVADING! Well shit, SOME SORT OF BROWN PEOPLE ARE INVADING!

    BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!


  101. barfly says:

    This rhetoric by King and the others shows how scared they are of ramaining in the minority after the election.

    If they are unable to regain the majority, some time-tested shibboleths will be biting the dust, most notably their laughable claim that the nation is still politically center-right.


  102. Xisithrus says:

    look, if rangel did what he is being charged with he needs to go.

    now, lets see moto and clownhooker do something about ensigns ethical shenanigans


  103. SoapBox says:

  104. MCMetal says:

    QuestioningEverything says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    A severed finger was delivered to the Laredo, TX police department this morning.

    There’s a fly in the ointment that liberals DON’T want people to see.
    July 29th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Signed , a Bush apologist retard……..


  105. Zimzone says:

    If I was in Texas I’d be giving someone the finger, too.


  106. RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    When are the employers of the undocumented workers going to have their figurative fingers cut off??


  107. barfly says:

    There’s a fly in the ointment that liberals DON’T want people to see.

    That outside of a few hot spots like Laredo, cross-border crime is actually down?

    California’s, dramatically so.


  108. RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    Now, barfly, there you go with more of those facty things again!


  109. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    barfly, across the board the threats by brown people outside our borders have dropped in the last 18 months. This means the theocratic isolationists have jumped to the top of the threat board and they are wailing.

    FDR said we have nothing to fear but the fearful themselves. Well, maybe he didn’t exactly say it that way.


  110. Frugalchariot says:

    RUCerious ~Truck U Folls!~ says:

    Was it Steve King’s severed finger>? If not, why are you skidding off topic again, and again, and again..?
    ————————————————————

    He does it everytime he’s made to look like a fool. Which is every post. So he does it “anain, and again, and again…”

    It’s kinda fun to watch. Worth a laugh, at least.


  111. barfly says:

    FDR said we have nothing to fear but the fearful themselves. Well, maybe he didn’t exactly say it that way.

    I wonder what he would have thought of the teabaggers.


  112. Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:

    Republican Tea Party Contract ON America

    LOL>> teabaggers hows that for your motto

    tea bagger party is the hit squad of the rich.


  113. evangenital says:

    All these so-called “libertarians” on this blog were all ardent Bush/Cheney supporters.

    They are fascists, as they themselves know, but are too ashamed to admit.


  114. donquijoterocket says:

    I’m of the opinion that the joke that is rep. King is doing his best to distract from his obvious clown status by doing his best to prove the old joke that Iowa is an acronym for Idiots Out Wandering Around.


  115. Virtual Pebble (A Mean Motorscooter and a Bad Go-Getter) says:

    Why, lands sakes, there must be an election coming up. That famous Republipimp, Steven King, has his wondrous miraculous Reversagrind (pat. pending) process running, trying to turn bullshit into redmeat for the ‘bagger crowd. OOps, still makes the same nauseating smell though…


  116. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    The Republicans and their bagger allies are working on their campaign slogan.

    “Vote for us! We don’t stand for anything we care to be pinned down to but we are afraid of everything! We want you to be as well!”


  117. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    OT, but I want to respond:

    Lingus-Clee says:
    And her old man weren’t lynched neither.
    Proof positive.

    A black person in Georgia taken out by a group of racists and beaten to death (not hanged with a rope)—-still comes under the definition of “lynching”. Not everyone knows this. And you are missing the point all the way around.


  118. hellinabucket says:

    How soon before Arizona requests federal aid because of the revenue lost by their short sided move?


  119. jjm says:

    I guess morons have the country’s ear.


  120. evangenital says:

    King is an idiot who plays to even greater idiots.


  121. Keith brought to you by the RDA Corporation says:

    Where were you rightwingers yelling about illegals the eight years of Dubya or the twelve years of Reagan-Bush? Clinton and Obama have done MORE than those twenty years—-not LESS.


  122. MCMetal says:

    King attended Northwest Missouri State University from 1967 to 1970,taking courses toward becoming a wildlife officer. In 1975, he founded King Construction, an earth moving company. King founded the Kiron Business Association in the 1980s. His involvement with the Iowa Land Improvement Contractors’ Association led to regional and national offices in that organization and a growing interest in public policy.

    What exactly in this fu(ktard’s background qualifies this idiot to babble on about anything , never mind a judge’s ruling on the constitutionality of a state’s (moronic) law ?


  123. Frugalchariot says:

    QuestioningEverything says:

    A severed finger was delivered to the Laredo, TX police department this morning.

    There’s a fly in the ointment that liberals DON’T want people to see.
    ——————————————————–

    So here’s what you do then: get that finger, whatever it takes, and stick it up your butt. No liberal will ever see it — but what a joy for your wingnut buddies!


  124. evangenital says:

    How many of you have ever noticed how the teabaggers who claim to question everything never seem to question anything, even the more idiotic and crazy stuff,
    promulgated by the right wing?


  125. zxbe says:

    Still no mention of the Sherrod lawsuit on Fox News’ main page. They have six articles about Rangle. Not one about Sherrod. I guess Fox wants to promote it when blacks are in trouble, but not when they fight back for their rights.

    Just amazing that they call themselves a news organization.


  126. Badmoodman says:

    Lingus-Clee says:
    And her old man weren’t lynched neither.
    Proof positive.

    – - Yeah, the wingnuts are grasping at straws on the Sherrod matter and they’ve hung their hopes on parsing the word “lynch.”

    Mind you, these are the same people that still mock Bill Clinton to this day for his parsing of the word “is.” Of course, one incident was a bl*wjob and the other a murder, but wingnuts can’t differentiate.


  127. Chicano2ndFightingTerrorismSince1492 says:

    He hasn’t “forgotten” anything. He is just friggin disingenous! Like all friggin repubs.


  128. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    Considering the conservative gyrations over the definition of the word torture, I am not surprised they will go through a similar dance over lynch.


  129. shoe (formerly shoeless, before the beach got covered with oil) says:

    evangenital says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    All these so-called “libertarians” on this blog were all ardent Bush/Cheney supporters.

    They are fascists, as they themselves know, but are too ashamed to admit.

    Libertarian, corporatist, fascist are just different names for the same thing.


  130. Hoodathunk(sponsored by Free Speech for Fish) says:

    I guess Los Zetas are amateurs. Our fundy crowd goes directly for the genitalia. None of this mucking about.


  131. dasm says:

    In their rush to blame anything not GOP, Republicans show yet again how stupid, ignorant, dishonest & partisan they are.


  132. hellinabucket says:

    QE, are you advocating the legalization of certain drugs like coke and pot?


  133. Virtual Pebble (A Mean Motorscooter and a Bad Go-Getter) says:

    hellinabucket @ 162, QE isn’t advocating, but she may be an avocado – she has some really tasty hallucinations going, but she’s coming down from whatever it is. Her ‘finger delivered to the Laredo Sheriff’s Dept’ story started yesterday with some redstate types trying to get a story going that the Zetas had invaded the US and had taken over a couple of ranches near Laredo.

    Coming down is such a bummer; from real estate craziness to yakuza mutilation in 24 hours or so.

    My diagnosis; PCP with some datura tea on the side.


  134. USCKitty: To the trolls, if You say something stupid, it will be noted. says:

    Lingus-Clee says:
    And her old man weren’t lynched neither.
    Proof positive.

    From the American Spectator, since probably you could not rely on original thought to make that claim…

    The arrest was made late at night at Hall’s home on a warrant charging Hall with theft of a tire. Hall, a young negro about thirty years of age, was handcuffed and taken by car to the courthouse. As Hall alighted from the car at the courthouse square, the three petitioners began beating him with their fists and with a solid-bar blackjack about eight inches long and weighing two pounds. They claimed Hall had reached for a gun and had used insulting language as he alighted from the car. But after Hall, still handcuffed, had been knocked to the ground, they continued to beat him from fifteen to thirty minutes until he was unconscious. Hall was then dragged feet first through the courthouse yard into the jail and thrown upon the floor, dying. An ambulance was called, and Hall was removed to a hospital, where he died within the hour and without regaining consciousness. There was evidence that Screws held a grudge against Hall, and had threatened to “get” him.

    Law enforcement could participate in lynchings either in an official or unofficial way. Often they would arrest the guy and then keep him in jail for a while. Then they would release the victim into the “jurisdiction” of the lynch mob. The self-defense or blaming the victim excuse was often used in the South from Confederate soldiers who officially cited “attempted to escape” as their reasons for massacring black POWs to lynch mobs who accused the victim of rape, a charge that Ida B. Wells noted obscured other reasons such as economic competition…The man was handcuffed but the police officers continued to beat him until he died. By your Jeffrey Lord’s definition, this would not have counted because law enforcement was involved, and you authoritarian types believe that law enforcement is always right. By your Jeffrey Lord’s definition, the lynchings of Emmitt Till (torture and then shooting) and James Byrd Jr. (dragged from a truck) would not have counted…

    Educate yourself…


  135. hellinabucket says:

    QE, stay away from the Payote.


  136. USCKitty: To the trolls, if You say something stupid, it will be noted. says:

    Lingus, when does Jeffrey Lord, a wingnut interested in smearing Sherrod become the arbiter of what a lynching is or is not?


  137. hellinabucket says:

    For Lingus-Clee to think the death of Hall wasn’t a lynching shows how far we have yet to go.


  138. Michiganmitch says:

    @153 Badmoodman says: Mind you, these are the same people that still mock Bill Clinton to this day for his parsing of the word “is.” Of course, one incident was a bl*wjob and the other a murder, but wingnuts can’t differentiate.
    ——————————————–
    And the same who would impeach Clinton for a lie about a BJOB refuse to recognize the lies about Iraq (WDMs and a Sadamm-Osama alliance) that cost 4,000 plus American lives, up to half a million Iraqi lives, thousands of permanently crippling injuries and probably a trillion dollars. Truely despicable are the lot of Republobaggers of our country today.


  139. USCKitty: To the trolls, if You say something stupid, it will be noted. says:

    hellinabucket says:
    For Lingus-Clee to think the death of Hall wasn’t a lynching shows how far we have yet to go.

    He’s a mindless bot…of course he linked to the very same article I spent debunking here


  140. blogbob says:

    The difference between an “activist judge” and a “strict constructionist judge” is whether they favor the rights of people (former) or corporations (latter) when considering how the law applies to everyday life.


  141. breaker581 says:

    The judge used personal bias in rendering this decision. The Federal Government is mandated to protect the borders, however they have been derelict in this duty. The Arizona law is a mirror image of Federal Law. This judge is basically saying that Arizona has no right to enforce Federal Law when the government will not enforece said laws. This is a clear-cut case of corruption at the highest level, as well as an attack on state sovereignty.


  142. breaker581 says:

    @blogbob #171 – You actually have it backwards.


  143. Chickenbone Bill says:

    Born in May of 1949, what was King’s reason for not serving in the military during the Viet-Nam War besides being a Chickenhawk?
    Also he has “NEVER” debated anyone who has run against him,wonder why?


  144. barfly says:

    breaker581 says:

    @blogbob #171 – You actually have it backwards.

    Historically speaking, you don’t know what you’re talking about.


  145. Biot says:

    Have mercy. I am living in the same state as a political clown that goes by the name of “Pennywise.”


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