Crowd Laughs When Congressman Is Asked: Who's Going To Shoot Obama?

[Townsend]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/25/134054078/crowd-laughs-when-congressman-is-asked-whos-going-to-shoot-obama?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Jocularity

From Georgia, the Athens Banner-Herald reports that at a townhall meeting Tuesday night Republican Rep. Paul Broun was asked by a person in the audience when — or who, depending on the person doing the reporting — someone is going to shoot President Obama.

Two things about what happened next stand out:

— The question "got a big laugh," the newspaper reports.

— Broun, his press secretary confirmed, moved on. "Obviously, the question was inappropriate, so Congressman Broun moved on," spokeswoman Jessica Morris told the Banner-Herald.

He responded this way, according to the newspaper:

"The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that's going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare."

As Politico says, Broun "didn't come anywhere near condemning the question in his response."

Broun, a doctor, was first elected to Congress in July 2007.

The Washington Post's Plum Line blog says the Secret Service has spoken with the person who asked the question, and determined that "he or she was an 'elderly person' who now regrets making a bad joke."

[heironymouspasparagus]

Wow!  Sounds like an Inhofe style townhall meeting!  But that's Georgia for you.  These are the people who elected Saxby Chambliss over Max Cleland.  What can you expect?  (With lots of Karl Rove help.)

[Townsend]

Congressman draws fire for calling evolution, Big Bang 'lies from the pit of hell'

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/congressman-draws-fire-for-calling-evolution-big-bang-lies-from-the-pit-of-hell/

Washington (CNN) – A U.S. congressman is attracting attention and criticism for an online video that shows him blasting evolution and the Big Bang theory as "lies from the pit of hell" in a recent speech at a church event in his home state of Georgia.

"All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell," U.S Rep. Paul Broun said in an address last month at a banquet organized by Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia. "And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior."

Damn.  Makes me nauseated.

[Teatownclown]

These pip squeaks get elected by stupid Americans whose best interests are no where close to mine....can a revolution be far behind?

And Mark Wayne and Bridenstein are of the same mold....

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/10/984071/pro-life-congressman-pressured-mistress-to-get-an-abortion/

Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) told his mistress to get an abortion for the sake of his marriage, despite his pro-life views, in a conversation obtained by the Huffington Post. Rep. DesJarlais, who supported the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" — a bill that included "forcible rape" language in one of its early drafts — demanded that his lover end her pregnancy, saying, "You told me you'd have an abortion, and now we're getting too far along without one." The lawmaker has faced accusations of hypocrisy before; although he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he later celebrated the construction of a health clinic in his district funded wholly by Obamacare.