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Posted on 09/18/2013 2:32:04 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen blamed opposition to gun control on voters’ affinities for “guns and the Bible” on Wednesday in an MSNBC appearance.
“I got the vitriol from on the Twitter from all these people who opposed that cartoon,” said Cohen, who tweeted a cartoon that appeared to blame the National Rifle Association for the Navy Yard shooting spree on Tuesday. ”They are hardcore Republicans. This I think means more to them than — I think their guns are right there next to their Bibles. I’m not sure which they find more important to them.”
Cohen’s remarks bear a strong resemblance to comments made by President Barack Obama in 2008 at a California fundraiser, where he explained that economic downturns pushed “bitter” Pennsylvania voters to “cling to guns or religion” — a point co-host David Corn quickly made.
Corn also asked if opposition to disarming private citizens was “a cultural matter that can’t really be broken by simple politics.”
Corn’s question prompted Cohen to blame guns and the Bible for primary challenges to moderate establishment Republicans.
“It’s been that way for a while, and it certainly is in the Republican caucus,” Cohen said. “These people are afraid to get primaried, which they would. And you see Lamar Alexander, who’s a reasonable Republican, now has a right-wing opponent in his primary in my state. Mitch McConnell has one in Kentucky. Rich Luger, one of the stars of the Senate, was defeated by a right-winger, so it’s around, and it’s difficult. And it is guns, and the Bible.”
This guy must be in a really safe gerrymandered, vote frauding, obama loving, dimocrat district to say something like that in Tennessee. But maybe Tennessee isn’t the Tennessee i imagine it to be.
Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen...RESIGN you POS anti-American totalitarian wannabee...and PAY UP...
Where’s that wanted poster for socialist robbery?
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
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I guess we know where this douche bag stands on the 1st and 2nd amendments.
No, he's from the part of Tennessee where Communists and whitey-bashing are still popular.
He has a ton of "service"/"good guy" awards, one of them from the Human [homosexual] Rights <ptui!> Campaign. He's also bigtime ACLU/NAACP buddy.
Remember that Tennessee produced two Fords and two Gores, all pinker than a rhesus monkey's ass.
He’s a white liberal from a Memphis district that is 60% black. Which makes me seriously wonder how much he has to debase himself to get elected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%27s_9th_congressional_district
Memphis; that tell you anything?
1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches? 4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.
They have ALWAYS been in the tank for Obozo. No matter how ridiculous the argument was.
I don't know which scenario I'd like better:
1. Read that the SOB was shot dead in his home unable to defend himself due to his aversion to guns
or
2. Have him shoot an intruder and thus expose himself as a hypocrite.
Either way we would win!
to Steve:
Steve, you are an idiot
the dude that did it was an obamaton
Yup. That's me. Proud of it, too. :)
As opposed to the congressman's affinity for gay boys and the devil. :)
I don’t know how you got away with it, but you expressed my feelings very well.
(btw, good tagline ! d:^)
He represents that toilet bowl Memphis...no wonder.
Yes, Rep. Stevens - I do have an affinity for my Bible, it helps me know my God better. Teaches me about my salvation through Jesus. It inspires me and helps guide me.
Explain to me the problem Mr. Stevens. Try to.
Farnsbaby, our sentiments exactly.
Thanks. The tagline goes with the alter ego. Google my screen name and check out the Wikipedia explanation. If you are a Larry Niven fan you already understand. Speaker did finally earn the name Chmee, but I am sentimental.
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