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Jon Stewart Vs The Three Tea Stooges
Liberal Group Zings GOP Rep. Steve King
Mediaite reports: Over the past few weeks, Iowa Congressman Steve King showed that he’s not one to mince words on illegal immigration. He might, however, want to look into how to rip videos. King sent out a fundraising email to his supporters Monday morning with a video of a speech from last year, in which he argued that America’s immigration …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Rep. Steve King
“Some of them are valedictorians, and their parents brought them in. It wasn’t their fault. It’s true in some cases, but they aren’t all valedictorians. They weren’t all brought in by their parents. For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds …
Read More »Crackpot GOP Rep. Steve King Whines For Help Over Student Immigration Activists
A small group of teenage DREAM activists have crackpot GOP Rep. Steve King wetting his Sansabelts. King, a long-time immigration hardliner, last week sponsored an effort to cut funding for President Obama’s deferred action program, which grants deportation reprieves to DREAMers. In response, United We Dream, an undocumented youth activist group, organized a protest at the Iowa congressman’s office this …
Read More »GOP Rep. Steve King Introduces Bill To End Birthright Citizenship
Tea Party hero Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has introduced a bill that would deny American citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants. The bill would amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth. It’s generally thought that …
Read More »IOWA: Humane Society Denounces Anti-Gay Crackpot Rep. Steve King
RELATED: You might remember King’s speech at the FRC’s 2011 Values Voter hate-fest where he told the giggling audience: “Gays are the most unhappy people I’ve ever met.”
Read More »GOP Rep. Steve King: I’m Going To Sue Obama To Stop Immigration Reform
GOP Rep. Steve King (Iowa) says he will be the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to stop President Obama’s immigration reform plan. Wingnut site Daily Caller reports: “I think we’re talking weeks rather than months,” King told The Daily Caller in an interview Friday about the planned legal action against Obama. King’s lawsuit is in response to the Obama …
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Rep. Steve King Tells Hate Convention: Gays Are Most Unhappy People I’ve Met
Of course King only meets gay people who show up to counter-protest his hate rallies. But the line got a laugh.
Read More »Wingnut GOP Rep. Steve King Plans To Cut DOJ Budget Over DOMA
Virulent homophobe Rep. Steve King (R-IA) says he will introduce a budget amendment that will cut the Department of Justice’s funding by the amount it would have spent to defend DOMA. “What I intend to do, and there are other solutions that are offered, and I believe that the Speaker is focused on this, as well … is to offer …
Read More »Lawrence O’Donnell Vs. Rep. Steve King
Wingnut birther Rep. Steve King (R-IO) says the president deliberately “perpetuates” the impression that he may be a Muslim.
Read More »Steve King: If You Don’t Like Your Health Care Options, Move To Another State
Jared Polis Vs. Nutcase Steve. King
Openly gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) tangled today with lunatic Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who says that health care reform is unconstitutional because some babies are born in trash cans and never see a doctor. I sincerely have zero idea what that is supposed to mean.
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Rep. Steve King
“The basis for the individual mandate was the Commerce Clause — that Congress has the constitutional authority to regulate commerce between the states. [But] not accessing healthcare from any source, let alone not purchasing health insurance, none of that is interstate commerce and should not be. “The dozen or so new Republican governors and the almost 700 new Republicans in …
Read More »Rep. Steve King: GOP Will Bring A Test Vote On The Repeal Of “Obamacare”
When the GOP takes over the House next month. Rep. Steve King plans to launch a “test vote” on the repeal of health care reform. The GOP has no chance of a repeal with Obama in office, but is looking towards January 2013 as their first chance to yank health insurance out of the hands of America’s poor.
Read More »NOM To Launch Iowa Bus Tour Against Pro-Marriage Supreme Court Justices
Next Monday NOM launches their third bus tour, this time in Iowa to support the Christianist campaign to defeat the state’s Supreme Court justices. In one sweeping decision unelected judges decided that it is all right to purposefully deny a child a mother and a father and that millennia of tradition and the views of a large majority of Iowans, …
Read More »Rep. Steve King (R-IA): Illegal Immigrants Can Be Spotted By Their Shoes
In a rambling story about catching a cab in DC, Rep. Steve King said that racial profiling is an “important component” of police work and that Arizona cops can spot illegal immigrants by “what kind of shoes” they wear. Stay out of your local Immigrant Foot Locker unless you want those cops to think yer a Mex’can!
Read More »Rep. Steve King: Obama’s A Racist
Because he opposes Arizona’s racist immigration law.
Read More »Rep. Steve King On ENDA: Gays Shouldn’t “Flaunt It” If They Don’t Want To Suffer From Discrimination
Speaking on the Family Research Council’s radio show, yesterday Rep. Steve King (R-IO) warned FRC execudouche Tony Perkins that gays were going to commit “sting operations” against their employers by showing up at work in a dress and then suing for discrimination. According to King, gays wouldn’t suffer so much discrimination if they just wouldn’t be so damn GAY.
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