Dumb And Dumber Headed To Texas Border
U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said on Friday that he is heading to the Texas-Mexico border this weekend to assess the current immigration crisis, and he will be joined by Michele Bachmann (R-Minn).
They will visit the areas of Brownsville, McAllen and Laredo, meeting with the Border Patrol and local officials. King has been a critic of immigration reform and has called for toughening border security, according to KCCI.
His jaw dropping statements such as immigrants weighing “130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” will only add to the problem.
Stuff King shouldn’t say again while visiting our Southern Border:
“We could also electrify this wire (on the border) with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”
King comparing immigration laws to picking a dog: “You put out a beacon like the Statue of Liberty and who comes here? The most vigorous from every country that has donated legal immigrants to America. The cream of the crop. We’ve always had bird dogs around our place. In our family there’s a black lab and white lab, a yellow lab, and my brother has a chocolate lab. Well, you go in and you look at a litter of pups, and you watch them. You watch how they play — they run around a little bit — and what do you want? You want a good bird dog, and you want one that’s gonna be aggressive? Pick the one that’s the friskiest, the one that’s in games the most — not the one that’s over there sleeping in the corner. You want a pet to sit on the couch, pick the one that’s sleeping in the corner. That’s — so, you get the pick of the litter, you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. We got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet because it’s hard to get here; you had to be inspired to come. We got the vigor from the planet to come to America. Whichever generation it was, and then we taught our children that same thing.”
King on the United States’ official language, “One of the great things about America is we’ve been unified by a common language. That common language, of course, is English. Our language is getting subdivided by some forces of the federal government. It is time to speak with a common voice. The argument that diversity is our strength has really never been backed up by logic. It’s unity is where our strength is. Our Founding Fathers understood that. Modern-day multiculturalists are defying that.”
“When we give the welfare state, then people won’t be able to come out of it. It’s the biggest trap that people can have,” Michele Bachmann said in 2011.
Both politicians are “pro-life” Christians. It will be interesting to see how the two will reject children who are fleeing violence and still be OK with GOP Jesus.
H/T: Agnostic-God @ComgenKDT with thanks.
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Republicans_are_Evil July 26th, 2014 at 22:27
So there is a chance, albeit only a slight one, that they will get caught up in some border violence. Maybe they will mistake cartel smugglers for refugee children fleeing violence.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:34
Liberals are evil.
Republicans_are_Evil July 26th, 2014 at 22:27
So there is a chance, albeit only a slight one, that they will get caught up in some border violence. Maybe they will mistake cartel smugglers for refugee children fleeing violence.
Obewon July 26th, 2014 at 22:51
U.S. Rep. Steve King said on Friday that he is heading to Texico’s border for a weekend getaway and final fling with Michele Bachmann. Unless there’s a corndog sucking contest, there’s never any Marcuth in sight ever!
mmaynard119 July 29th, 2014 at 10:40
They didn’t specifically state where they were going. Perhaps the two are on a fact-finding tour of Tijuana.
Obewon July 26th, 2014 at 22:51
U.S. Rep. Steve King said Friday that he is heading to Texico’s border for a weekend getaway with Michele Bachmann. Unless there’s a corndog sucking contest, there is never any Marcuth in sight ever!
mmaynard119 July 29th, 2014 at 10:40
They didn’t specifically state where they were going. Perhaps the two are on a fact-finding tour of Tijuana.
majii July 27th, 2014 at 00:31
Imho, I think these two and those who have been disparaging the migrant kids couldn’t care less about their so-called Christian values. Their only interests appear to be promoting their political careers, causing trouble, fostering hatred against kids simply because they’re not American kids, and drawing attention to themselves. If they are Christians, they’ll have to answer to God for calling for these kids to be mistreated because Jesus had a special place in his heart for kids.
Robert Johnston July 27th, 2014 at 01:17
And Hell has a VERY SPECIAL place for folks like Bachmann, Gohmert, King, et al ad nauseaum…
–RKJ
Judgeforyourself37 July 28th, 2014 at 19:59
If I truly believed in Hell, I would concur with your opinion. However, they are a disgrace to their country and other nations must be be laughing, hysterically at them and at us for giving them any media attention. We should ignore the whole bloody lot of them, then, perhaps they would just go away..
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:33
You lieral hae that exactly BACKWARDS.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:31
No Robert. He meant you.
Robert M. Snyder July 27th, 2014 at 01:30
For every kid who makes it to the US border, there are 20 more who will never have the opportunity. If we really care about the kids who make it, then we should care just as much about the vast majority who remain in their violence-ridden and poverty-stricken home countries. Obviously we cannot import the entire population of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. So if we really care about these people, then we need to ask why their countries are in such a mess, and we need to work with these countries to find solutions.
The flood of illegal immigrants is just a symptom. The real problem is corruption and violence in Central America and Mexico. Honduras has the highest gun-related homicide rates in the world. (65 homicides annually per 100,000 people). Guatemala is the sixth highest at 35 per 100,000 annually. The USA has only 3 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people annually. People aren’t just coming here for jobs. They’re coming here to escape violence.
We certainly can’t absorb the entire population of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. And even if we tried, how would we identify and exclude the people who are causing the violence? Moving all of the people here only moves the problems here.
If we care about those who make it to the US, then we should care about all of their brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles who do not. The solution is to help these countries to fix the problems where they exist. Is that realistic? Only if we want to get our hands dirty. We don’t ferret out the criminal element in this country with nice talk and free food. It takes tough police tactics.
If you think America should not be the world’s policeman, then ask yourself this question: What is the first organization you call when you see a mugging or a rape being committed? A food pantry? A social worker? Or the police? If there were no cops, who would stop the muggers and rapists?
I have no illusions about America making the world a perfect place. I think the best we can hope for is to help make it a little bit better. But to do that, we have to ask “Who is making it bad for people, and how can we stop them?”.
A strict policy of non-interventionism is like only helping the child next door who is being beaten and raped if the child can first find a way to escape and make it to your front door. There is no cop to call, unless you are willing to be that cop.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:32
Suddenly thousands show up. SOMETHING FISHY.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:29
Especially those little darlings who are 18 going on thirty, with full body tattoos who finally made it after being caught the first three times and sent back… his rap sheet longer than his arm and just released from the So. American jail for rape, child molestation, theft… etc. Some of things can easily be overlooked by the president to obtain the end result of a new member of the DemocRat Party.. no doubt.
majii July 27th, 2014 at 00:31
Imho, I think these two and those who have been disparaging the migrant kids couldn’t care less about their so-called Christian values. Their only interests appear to be promoting their political careers, causing trouble, fostering hatred against kids simply because they’re not American kids, and drawing attention to themselves. If they are Christians, they’ll have to answer to God for calling for these kids to be mistreated because Jesus had a special place in his heart for kids.
Robert Keith Johnston July 27th, 2014 at 01:17
And Hell has a VERY SPECIAL place for folks like Bachmann, Gohmert, King, et al ad nauseaum…
–RKJ
Judgeforyourself37 July 28th, 2014 at 19:59
If I truly believed in Hell, I would concur with your opinion. However, they are a disgrace to their country and other nations must be be laughing, hysterically at them and at us for giving them any media attention. We should ignore the whole bloody lot of them, then, perhaps they would just go away..
Robert M. Snyder July 27th, 2014 at 01:30
For every kid who makes it to the US border, there are 20 more who will never have the opportunity. If we really care about the kids who make it, then we should care just as much about the vast majority who remain in their violence-ridden and poverty-stricken home countries. Obviously we cannot import the entire population of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. So if we really care about these people, then we need to ask why their countries are in such a mess, and we need to work with these countries to find solutions.
The flood of illegal immigrants is just a symptom. The real problem is corruption and violence in Central America and Mexico. Honduras has the highest gun-related homicide rates in the world. (65 homicides annually per 100,000 people). Guatemala is the sixth highest at 35 per 100,000 annually. The USA has only 3 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people annually. People aren’t just coming here for jobs. They’re coming here to escape violence.
We certainly can’t absorb the entire population of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. And even if we tried, how would we identify and exclude the people who are causing the violence? Moving all of the people here only moves the problems here.
If we care about those who make it to the US, then we should care about all of their brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles who do not. The solution is to help these countries to fix the problems where they exist. Is that realistic? Only if we want to get our hands dirty. We don’t ferret out the criminal element in this country with nice talk and free food. It takes tough police tactics.
If you think America should not be the world’s policeman, then ask yourself this question: What is the first organization you call when you see a mugging or a rape being committed? A food pantry? A social worker? Or the police? If there were no cops, who would stop the muggers and rapists?
I have no illusions about America making the world a perfect place. I think the best we can hope for is to help make it a little bit better. But to do that, we have to ask “Who is making it bad for people, and how can we stop them?”.
A strict policy of non-interventionism is like only helping the child next door who is being beaten and raped if the child can first find a way to escape and make it to your front door. There is no cop to call, unless you are willing to be that cop.
William July 27th, 2014 at 07:02
….and for those who like to keep up with Mr. King, there is actually a web site called…..wait for it…
http://progressiowa.org/sections/pages/didstevekingsaysomethingstupidtoday
William July 27th, 2014 at 07:02
….and for those who like to keep up with Mr. King, there is actually a web site called…..wait for it…
http://progressiowa.org/sections/pages/didstevekingsaysomethingstupidtoday
shocktreatment July 28th, 2014 at 14:20
Finally! It’s about time a crack team of enlightened forward thinkers put in a photo-op or two down there in border-country!
With all the tools, the wealth of knowledge, the insight, and just plain ol’ go-rah! USA UBER ALLES! character Rep. Steve King and Rep. Michele Bachmann bring to any discussion, who could doubt that a reasonable, practical and workable solution is forthcoming!
What could possibly go wrong?
Laura Flannery July 28th, 2014 at 18:52
We could wait until terrorists come in and kill a few thousand of us. But if they are white, christian and perhaps conservatives that are killed than that will be okay with you libs.
shocktreatment July 28th, 2014 at 18:58
Thanks for that Laura! I am sure sending the “best and the brightest” will keep all you “white, christian and perhaps conservatives” safe!
Why don’t you grab a gun or two and hide under the bed until Reps Bachmann and King get a handle on things.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:22
And you in KKK whites taking out the black chi-thugs for the new arrivals sent by drug cartels down south of the border… another St. Valentine’s Day in Chi-town for bread and circuses per your Rahm Emanuel fantasies.
OldLefty July 29th, 2014 at 06:46
Again…..
Do you have ANY idea what you are talking about??
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 14:19
Oh shoot! I was looking forward to replying to crazy Marie…
I’m as fond of whiskey in the morning as the next guy, but unlike Marie, I neither get behind the keyboard, or pick up the telephone…
Laura Flannery July 29th, 2014 at 13:36
I’m not a sissy or a spineless jellyfish as you apparently are. I will go down fighting the enemy whether they be foriegn or domestic. But you keep on hiding like a good little lib.
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 14:22
“I’m not a sissy or a spineless jellyfish as you apparently are…”
Whoa! With such artful argument, such mastery of fact, it’s a wonder you conservatards don’t rule the world!
“I will go down fighting the enemy whether they be foriegn or domestic”
Oh Laura, just another deluded dimbulb. You don’t even know who your enemies are. Please, spare me that “the terrorists”, “the socialists”, and similar uninformed ‘yadda yadda duh-what’ nonsense.
Remember, the last time “terrorists come in and kill a few thousand of us” was after a conservative President had been provided actionable intelligence in his daily, and then a special warning delivered to him in person,at his home (while he was vacationing).
The last time terrorists killed 168 of us, they were already here, and were white, ‘christian’ and conservative.
More brain damaged mental midgets and moral defectives who graduated from writing incomprehensible ‘manifestos’ to bomb making. We’re all just waiting for the ones who don’t know the difference between ‘illegal immigrant’ and ‘humanitarian refugee’ to do likewise.
With your command of fact (and spelling), it could be you! Tell the truth, you run out of beer money early this month, decide to come out and troll Liberaland?
Laura Flannery July 29th, 2014 at 16:29
If Bill Clinton and Al Goracle would have done their jobs instead of letting terrorists go to flight schools{which he was told about] or did something when we were being attacked over and over and over again instead of having sex with his wife and child under the same roof, perhaps things would have turned out differently. Clinton was also offered bin laden on a silver platter but he was too busy deporting Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint.
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 16:53
Yeah right. the Bushco years of unmitigated disaster never happened, and if they did, it’s like Hannity said, Clinton dropped the ball.
You are a hapless fact-free boob, repeating others’ talking points without a shred of evidence. You even crib the words!
“Was Bill Clinton offered bin Laden on “a silver platter”?”
Short answer: No.
Full answer: NO
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/clinton-passed-on-killing-bin-laden/
But Bushco? Another story:
“Q Ari, according to India Globe, the Taliban in Afghanistan, they have offered that they are ready to hand over Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia if the United States would drop its sanctions, and they have a kind of deal that they want to make with the United States. Do you have any comments?
MR. FLEISCHER: Let me take that and get back to you on that.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/20010227.html
http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/staff_statement_5.pdf
Just in case anybody, anywhere, thought a deluded dimbulb like you might have a point.
Laura Flannery July 30th, 2014 at 17:41
Sure brother. Perhaps you should watch the documentary that was on National Geographic called “Inside 9-11” that will be an eye popping expose’ for you to see and hear. I think you need a little more shock therapy sweetie, it doesn’t seem to be enough.
shocktreatment July 30th, 2014 at 18:29
Too stupid for words! I think you need help for what is called ‘mental disease or defect’.
You see, “sweetie”, you have confused the National Geographic documentary called “Inside 9/11”
which won an Emmy and supports none of your idiotic contentions, with the ABC-TV “docu-drama” called “The Path to 9/11” which was hooted at by anyone not a conspiracy-hobbyist, or beached on the right fringe.
Hilarious!, Obviously you’ve never seen either of the shows, and just sphincter-whistling some sh!t you heard somewhere.
Fact free, and delusional, as usual, but you do entertain!
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:15
Not only terrorists also the purveyors of the drug cartels… friends with our dear leaders.
mmaynard119 July 29th, 2014 at 10:38
We already have terrorists. They are the Koch Brothers, Walton Family, Sheldon Adelson, DeVos Family, all of whom are attacking the rest of the country from within through despoiling the environment, not paying living wages, supporting right-wing terrorist groups determined to start armed insurrection/repeat of the Civil War.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:12
They coukd be subtefuged by a few liberals, like Obama’s & F&F Holder’s buds from across the pond, don’t ya’ think?
shocktreatment July 28th, 2014 at 14:20
Finally! It’s about time a crack team of enlightened forward thinkers put in a photo-op or two down there in border-country!
With all the tools, the wealth of knowledge, the insight, and just plain ol’ go-rah! USA UBER ALLES! character Rep. Steve King and Rep. Michele Bachmann bring to any discussion, who could doubt that a reasonable, practical and workable solution is forthcoming!
What could possibly go wrong?
Laura Flannery July 28th, 2014 at 18:52
We could wait until terrorists come in and kill a few thousand of us. But if they are white, christian and perhaps conservatives that are killed than that will be okay with you libs.
shocktreatment July 28th, 2014 at 18:58
Thanks for that Laura! I am sure sending the “best and the brightest” will keep all you “white, christian and perhaps conservatives” safe!
Why don’t you grab a gun or two and hide under the bed until Reps Bachmann and King get a handle on things.
OldLefty July 29th, 2014 at 06:46
Again…..
Do you have ANY idea what you are talking about??
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 14:19
Oh shoot! I was looking forward to replying to crazy Marie…
I’m as fond of whiskey in the morning as the next guy, but unlike Marie, I neither get behind the keyboard, or pick up the telephone…
Laura Flannery July 29th, 2014 at 13:36
I’m not a sissy or a spineless jellyfish as you apparently are. I will go down fighting the enemy whether they be foriegn or domestic. But you keep on hiding like a good little lib.
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 14:22
“I’m not a sissy or a spineless jellyfish as you apparently are…”
Whoa! With such artful argument, such mastery of fact, it’s a wonder you conservatards don’t rule the world!
“I will go down fighting the enemy whether they be foriegn or domestic”
Oh Laura, just another deluded dimbulb. You don’t even know who your enemies are. Please, spare me that “the terrorists”, “the socialists”, and similar uninformed ‘yadda yadda duh-what’ nonsense.
Remember, the last time “terrorists come in and kill a few thousand of us” was after a conservative President had been provided actionable intelligence in his daily, and then a special warning delivered to him in person,at his home (while he was vacationing).
The last time terrorists killed 168 of us, they were already here, and were white, ‘christian’ and conservative.
More brain damaged mental midgets and moral defectives who graduated from writing incomprehensible ‘manifestos’ to bomb making. We’re all just waiting for the ones who don’t know the difference between ‘illegal immigrant’ and ‘humanitarian refugee’ to do likewise.
With your command of fact (and spelling), it could be you! Tell the truth, you run out of beer money early this month, decide to come out and troll Liberaland?
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 16:53
Yeah right. the Bushco years of unmitigated disaster never happened, and if they did, it’s like Hannity said, Clinton dropped the ball.
You are a hapless fact-free boob, repeating others’ talking points without a shred of evidence. You even crib the words!
“Was Bill Clinton offered bin Laden on “a silver platter”?”
Short answer: No.
Full answer: NO
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/clinton-passed-on-killing-bin-laden/
But Bushco? Another story:
“Q Ari, according to India Globe, the Taliban in Afghanistan, they have offered that they are ready to hand over Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia if the United States would drop its sanctions, and they have a kind of deal that they want to make with the United States. Do you have any comments?
MR. FLEISCHER: Let me take that and get back to you on that.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/20010227.html
http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/staff_statement_5.pdf
Just in case anybody, anywhere, thought a deluded dimbulb like you might have a point.
Laura Flannery July 30th, 2014 at 17:41
Sure brother. Perhaps you should watch the documentary that was on National Geographic called “Inside 9-11” that will be an eye popping expose’ for you to see and hear. I think you need a little more shock therapy sweetie, it doesn’t seem to be enough.
shocktreatment July 30th, 2014 at 18:29
Too stupid for words! I think you need help for what is called ‘mental disease or defect’.
You see, “sweetie”, you have confused the National Geographic documentary called “Inside 9/11”
which won an Emmy and supports none of your idiotic contentions, with the ABC-TV “docu-drama” called “The Path to 9/11” which was hooted at by anyone not a conspiracy-hobbyist, or beached on the right fringe.
Hilarious!, Obviously you’ve never seen either of the shows, and just sphincter-whistling some sh!t you heard somewhere.
Fact free, and delusional, as usual, but you do entertain!
mmaynard119 July 29th, 2014 at 10:38
We already have terrorists. They are the Koch Brothers, Walton Family, Sheldon Adelson, DeVos Family, all of whom are attacking the rest of the country from within through despoiling the environment, not paying living wages, supporting right-wing terrorist groups determined to start armed insurrection/repeat of the Civil War.
Traveler51 July 28th, 2014 at 16:44
She will ask him to take Route 69 to get there. Marcus doesn’t go that way.
Traveler51 July 28th, 2014 at 16:44
She will ask him to take Route 69 to get there. Marcus doesn’t go that way.
Larry Schmitt July 28th, 2014 at 18:37
His comments about the immigrants’ calves belong in the Congressional Idiocy Hall of Fame, along with Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, and the late, great Ted “Let me explain the internet to you” Stevens.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:08
Mary J is bulky
Larry Schmitt July 28th, 2014 at 18:37
His comments about the immigrants’ calves belong in the Congressional Idiocy Hall of Fame, along with Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, and the late, great Ted “Let me explain the internet to you” Stevens.
Don Jensen July 28th, 2014 at 20:04
I’m looking forward to their assessment. Their responses will answer once and for all if either of them are truly human, or an advanced species of flesh eating maggots that mimic human form. I suspect the latter.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:07
They’re human alright… but I don’t expect you’ll notice.
Don Jensen July 28th, 2014 at 20:04
I’m looking forward to their assessment. Their responses will answer once and for all if either of them are truly human, or an advanced species of flesh eating maggots that mimic human form. I suspect the latter.
JamesMMartin July 29th, 2014 at 01:38
Want to know what is wrong with that picture? It only shows two of the stooges. The other one is from Texas, Rep. Louie Gohmert. Now THAT is a bozo.
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:06
The other stooge is Obama who never showed.
JamesMMartin July 29th, 2014 at 01:38
Want to know what is wrong with that picture? It only shows two of the stooges. The other one is from Texas, Rep. Louie Gohmert. Now THAT is a bozo.
Progressive Republican July 29th, 2014 at 05:34
Um… so which one’s “Dumb” and which one’s “Dumber”?
Marie W July 29th, 2014 at 06:04
Former: Obama
Latter: Biden
OldLefty July 29th, 2014 at 06:36
Do you have ANY idea what you are talking about??
Progressive Republican July 29th, 2014 at 15:18
Clearly not. I didn’t even get the chance for a . :(
Obviously a victim of Pres. Ronnie’s “let’s-defund-public-education-and-make-a-generation-of-idiots-stupid-enough-to-vote-Rethuglicon” pogrom.
Progressive Republican July 29th, 2014 at 05:34
Um… so which one’s “Dumb” and which one’s “Dumber”?
OldLefty July 29th, 2014 at 06:36
Do you have ANY idea what you are talking about??
Progressive Republican July 29th, 2014 at 15:18
Clearly not. I didn’t even get the chance for a . :(
Obviously a victim of Pres. Ronnie’s “let’s-defund-public-education-and-make-a-generation-of-idiots-stupid-enough-to-vote-Rethuglicon” pogrom.