This politician is mentally unstable

[epo]

Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky announced that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will die soon and that will help conservatives. From the story (http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090222/NEWS01/902230303):

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.

During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges "and that's going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg … has cancer."

"Bad cancer. The kind that you don't get better from," he told a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.

Two things about this story tell me that Jim Bunning is mentally unstable:

1. Ginsburg was diagnosed with Stage 1 cancer, but that doesn't mean she'll be dead within 9 months.

2. How in the bloody hell does Bunning think that Ginsburg's death would lead to a more "conservative" court? The last time I checked the President and both houses of Congress were sort of.......not conservative.

Congrats Kentucky, one of your senators is mentally unstable!

[A.J.]

Bunning really may be mentally unstable. He exhibited some bizarre behavior during his 2004 race.

[Tallman388]

Congrats Kentucky, one of your senators is mentally unstable!

Isn't that redundant?

[dino_electropolis]

Whats the likelihood of reverting to the Jim Crowe era, but instead of subjecting blacks to a 3/5ths vote, we just apply it across the board to anyone living in middle america?

[KingModem]

He did throw a perfect game though.

Jim Bunning: The Underperformer (Time Magazine, 2006) (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183986,00.html)

[Dude!]

he is an idiot no doubt

not worse than diane feinstein though
who spilled secrets about pakistan recently
she is much more dangerous an idiot than bunting

[TheMojoPin]

Whats the likelihood of reverting to the Jim Crowe era, but instead of subjecting blacks to a 3/5ths vote, we just apply it across the board to anyone living in middle america?

What is this even supposed to mean?

Beyond that, the 3/5th's ruling had nothing to do with the Jim Crow era, and it had nothing to do with how much a black person's vote counted, namely because when it was established blacks did not have the right to vote. It was a founding Constitutional declaration that said that states with a slave population could count 3/5th's of that population towards the number of representatives the state got in the House of Representatives. Jim Crow laws didn't show up until after the failure of Reconstruction in the last 20-25 years of the 19th Century.

[MacVittie]

wow, disparaging a Phillie on ronfez.net.

What's next, an anti-Greg Luzinski thread?

http://www.kypolitics.org/.a/6a00d8357d58c369e201053687da21970b-320wi

[Zorro]

What is this even supposed to mean?

Beyond that, the 3/5th's ruling had nothing to do with the Jim Crow era, and it had nothing to do with how much a black person's vote counted, namely because when it was established blacks did not have the right to vote. It was a founding Constitutional declaration that said that states with a slave population could count 3/5th's of that population towards the number of representatives the state got in the House of Representatives. Jim Crow laws didn't show up until after the failure of Reconstruction in the last 20-25 years of the 19th Century.

Wow...jumpy...jumperton...cut the poor guy some slack. Pretty sure he was just trying to make a dopey joke. Seems like maybe you might want to lay off the caffeine a bit.

[TheMojoPin]

Wow...jumpy...jumperton...cut the poor guy some slack. Pretty sure he was just trying to make a dopey joke. Seems like maybe you might want to lay off the caffeine a bit.

No slack will be cut when it comes to bad history.

[Fezticle98]

Mentally unstable, perhaps.

An idiot, almost certainly.

Consistently voted the dumbest Senator by hill staffers.

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/9097.html

[Dude!]

Mentally unstable, perhaps.

An idiot, almost certainly.

Consistently voted the dumbest Senator by hill staffers.

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/9097.html

i saw ron wyden of oregon interviewed recently
came across as almost illiterate

[jauble]

pancreas jokes aren't funny

[Dan 'Hampton]

pancreas jokes aren't funny

I certainly disagree!

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Today's winner of "This politician is mentally unstable" goes to Alabama Senator Richard Shelby. Shelby was at a meeting on Saturday in his home state when this happened (http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/local_story_052203445.html):

Comments Sen. Richard Shelby made in Cullman recently concerning a rumor that President Barack Obama is not a natural born United States citizen garnered national attention Monday.

During a community meeting at the All Steak Restaurant on Saturday, a local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to the rumor, which appeared during the presidential campaign.

“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”

Congrats Alabama, you've got a Senator who is in the Alan Keyes "batshit crazy" wing of your party!

[A.J.]

During a community meeting at the All Steak Restaurant on Saturday, a local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to the rumor, which appeared during the presidential campaign.

Way to play up the stereotype Alabamans!

[GreatAmericanZero]

Congrats Kentucky, one of your senators is mentally unstable!

i'm only a few miles from the Ohio border. Does that help me out?

[KnoxHarrington]

As mentioned above, Bunning damn near pissed away a 30% lead to a complete political unknown (who's now Lieutenant Governor, Dan Mongiardo) with the crazy shit he was saying. Daddy Mitch is apparently now trying to talk the Senate President, David Williams, into running against Bunning in the Republican primary.

[EliSnow]

“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”

Um, no. If a parent is american and you're born in Germany, because they are stationed there (as one example), you can be president.

[Thebazile78]

Um, no. If a parent is american and you're born in Germany, because they are statitioned there (as one example), you can be president.



Wasn't Eisenhower in a situation like that? Like he was born in Panama because his father was stationed at the Canal Zone?

[Dude!]

Um, no. If a parent is american and you're born in Germany, because they are statitioned there (as one example), you can be president.



like mccain

[A.J.]

Um, no. If a parent is american and you're born in Germany, because they are stationed there (as one example), you can be president.



Wasn't Eisenhower in a situation like that? Like he was born in Panama because his father was stationed at the Canal Zone?

like mccain

Yeah, it was McCain. Ike was born in Texas. Interestingly, it is rumored that President Chester A. Arthur was actually born in Canada and not the uppermost part of Vermont like he claimed.

[scottinnj]

wow, disparaging a Phillie on ronfez.net.

What's next, an anti-Greg Luzinski thread?



May I never live to see this board sink that low. Long Live the BULL!

[Thebazile78]

Yeah, it was McCain. Ike was born in Texas. Interestingly, it is rumored that President Chester A. Arthur was actually born in Canada and not the uppermost part of Vermont like he claimed.

Who the Hell was I thinking of if it wasn't Eisenhower, then? (And I know, I described McCain's situation in my example, as a later poster's comment about McCain reminded me ... when it was too late to correct it.)

[epo]

Today's winner of "This Politiian is Mentally Unstable" is Alabama U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus. Bachus is claiming that 17 members of the House of Representatives are "socialists". Link here. (http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/09/rep-bachus-17-house-members-are-socialists/)

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) puts the number of socialists in the House at 17.

"Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists," Bachus told local government leaders on Thursday, according to the Birmingham News.

Bachus gave the specific number of House socialists when pressed later by a reporter.

The beauty is that Bachus has no names to name, nor does he exhibit the mental clarity of what an actual socalist is, but damn...can he display some hyperbole in the face of logic. I'm not gonna say it reeks of McCarthyism (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456)....but goddamn is it lame.

[NewYorkDragons80]

I can't consider him truly unstable until Gvac confirms it.

[Gvac]

Mentally unstable?

I actually like the cut of their jib!

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Representative Joe Barton (R- Texas) claimed this week on his Twitter page that he "baffled" the Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu. Here is a screen cap of his claim...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/barton-tweet-400.jpg

Now if you are wondering about how he did it, here it is:

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I don't think Representative Barton can tell the difference between a mocking chuckle over a stupid question and a baffled moment. And for that, Representative Joe Barton of Texas is our Mentally Unstable Politician of the Day.

[Dude!]

I don't think Representative Barton can tell the difference between a mocking chuckle over a stupid question and a baffled moment. And for that, Representative Joe Barton of Texas is our Mentally Unstable Politician of the Day.

Wow
when is nancy pelosi
going to get your award

for knowing ALL about
the CIA interrogation practices
IN ADVANCE
and then lying and
saying she is shocked
to learn of it

she is in a whole nother league
of badness from dopey barton

[epo]

Wow
when is nancy pelosi
going to get your award

for knowing ALL about
the CIA interrogation practices
IN ADVANCE
and then lying and
saying she is shocked
to learn of it

she is in a whole nother league
of badness from dopey barton

A case like that would be a "lying politician of the day"...not a mentally unstable one. Clearly by Rep. Barton's communication through Twitter, he wrongly believes that he fooled a Nobel-prize winning scientist with a simple question. In reality he made an ass of himself via his mental unstability.

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Today's example is one that I hope and pray is mentally unstable. The reason I say that is that Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) on the floor of the House of Representatives today did something I find just hideous during the debate of a Hates Crimes Bill named after Wyoming victim Matthew Shepard. Here in Rep. Foxx's words are her thoughts about the bill:

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Lets hope that this woman, who thinks the Matthew Shepard murder was a "hoax", is only mentally unstable and not a cold, heartless bitch.

So here you go.....Virginia Foxx of North Carolina is today's Mentally Unstable Politician of the Day.

[Dan 'Hampton]

Hey look this guy does a hack Keith Olberman bit. Fantastic.

[Sen. Clay Davis]

I tell ya'll, this is some shameful shit. Now, I ain't never been much on the Republicans, mostly because they keep tryin' to indict my ass. They say it's because I'm corrupt, I'm a crook, all that shit, but we all know why; they want to be able to steal from the motherfuckers I steal from. That's all there is to it, partner.

Anyway, like I said, I ain't no friend of the Republican Party, but I kinda admired them. They talk all this God bullshit, but they had the stealing thing down. I mean, I look at a guy like Dick Cheney, and I say to myself, "Sheeeeeeeit, Clay, you ain't got nothing on that cracker." And no one tries to indict Cheney, because he'd just pop a cap in them. Shit, even that fuck Freamon wouldn't try to pull shit with ol' Dick. And I like that.

But they're just turning into a party of crazies. I don't know what the hell the game is here. Who wants to have anything to do with this party? You gotta at least act like you aren't totally out of your damn mind with the public. You can't say this crazy shit. At least not in public.

Anyway, gotta go, partner. By the way, if anyone here knows Mikeyboy, tell him that I'm gonna need another contribution to my favorite charity to get that extra bandwidth for RF.net project through Annapolis. And we all know what my favorite charity is. It's the Buy Clay Davis Another Car Foundation. Catch ya'll later.

[epo]

Hey look this guy does a hack Keith Olberman bit. Fantastic.

No that's right....I'm pointing out completely NORMAL behavior.

[Dan 'Hampton]

It's two sides of the same toilet.

[HBox]

It's two sides of the same toilet.

Keep telling yourself that.

[Crispy123]

Hey look this guy does a hack Keith Olberman bit. Fantastic.

redundant. I for one find EPOs posts just peachy.