Is this a new thing?
Oh, come on! We elect dumb politicians all the time...Patty Murray (sp), Ron Widen for a start.
two words: joe biden
“If these men were around today, making similar statements, Americans would hold them in contempt and disqualify them from office.”
Probably, but by failing to take action to reduce spending, the politicians have gone from dumb to idiotic. Sooner or later the dollar will collapse. Yeah, it’s a catch 22. But so what? The politicians were elected to deal with it.
“That’s a sad commentary on how we’ve trashed our Constitution.”
Who is this “we?” I had nothing to do with it. My family had nothing to do with it. I daresay the overwhelming majority of FReepers had nothing to do with it. So how is this “our” responsibility?
Answer: it isn’t. We didn’t trash the Constitution. So don’t expect me to line up as some sort of indentured servant to do the clean up.
How ‘bout the politician that was worrying about an island turning over and sinking from the weight of a new airport?
Sheila Jackson Lee is as dumb as a bag of hammers yet is reelected time and again.
I would like to argue that point!
Maxine Waters, Alan Greyson, just for starters. Oh, and how about Hussein! Elected twice (although I still say fraudulently).
Yo What iz da constitution ya'll is mad stupid.
Dumb article.
What the heck happened to Walter Williams? He used to be very smart.. and wise.
The rest of the article is fine, but the title and first paragraph are like Al Gore or Karl Rove wrote them.
Our smartest President, James Garfield, was shot by a lunatic, Charles Guiteau but killed by his Doctor, Doctor Doctor Bliss (Yes, his first name was Doctor) due to his refusal to listen to the new medical discovery of the day by Lister (Listereen) who showed that germs can infect a wound...which is what caused Garfield’s death due to Bliss’s continual search for the bullet with a dirty probe. The bullet wound, if left “untreated” would not have been fatal.
Republicans have learned to fear being on the wrong side of libs; we need to retrain them to fear being on the wrong side of US!
We got to dumbass chicks for Senators here in the state of euphoria (WA).
It’s all about Pork. Bringing home the Bacon!
Oh, and a former congressman for Governor to boot.
MmmmmmmmBacon!
Print more bacon please.
More prevailing wage jobs please. Oh and don’t forget the boeing tax breaks.
Win the unions win the state that’s where were at here.
(ramblings of wash state conservative during cybalta withdrawel.)
Hank Johnson may be the winner for dumb, although there are many DemocRAT entries. Hank worries about the island of Guam tipping over and capsizing. That performance eclipses by a substantial amount Sheila Jackson Lee, who is on the Space subcommittee, believing U.S. astronauts planted a flag on Mars.
ENJOY MOCKING HANK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
How do you explain Joseph E. Biden?
It’s a comforting thought but it’s wrong.
The congress and senate are packed with some of the dumbest people walking the streets of America.
They may be sly and manipulative enough to mislead and cheat hordes of people or have enough smart and wealthy backers to weasel their way into office.
But that doesn’t mean they posses usable wisdom or intelligence.
Barack Obama:
Calls a Navy corpsman a “Navy Corpse-man.”
Thinks Austrian is a language.
“We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.”
“I’ve now been in 57 states - I think one left to go.”
Refers to Hawaii as being part of Asia
Congressman Hank Johnson:
Worries that overpopulation could cause the island of Guam to tip over.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee:
“Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.
Asked NASA about the American flag flying on Mars
Veto Message - February 16, 1887
House of Representatives:
I return without my approval House bill No. 10203, entitled “An act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas, and making an appropriation therefor.”
It is represented that a long-continued and extensive drought has existed in certain portions of the State of Texas, resulting in a failure of crops and consequent distress and destitution.
Though there has been some difference in statements concerning the extent of the people’s needs in the localities thus affected, there seems to be no doubt that there has existed a condition calling for relief; and I am willing to believe that, notwithstanding the aid already furnished, a donation of seed grain to the farmers located in this region, to enable them to put in new crops, would serve to avert a continuance or return of an unfortunate blight.
And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds for that purpose.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
It is within my personal knowledge that individual aid has to some extent already been extended to the sufferers mentioned in this bill. The failure of the proposed appropriation of $10,000 additional to meet their remaining wants will not necessarily result in continued distress if the emergency is fully made known to the people of the country.
It is here suggested that the Commissioner of Agriculture is annually directed to expend a large sum of money for the purchase, propagation, and distribution of seeds and other things of this description, two-thirds of which are, upon the request of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, supplied to them for distribution among their constituents.The appropriation of the current year for this purpose is $100,000, and it will probably be no less in the appropriation for the ensuing year. I understand that a large quantity of grain is furnished for such distribution, and it is supposed that this free apportionment among their neighbors is a privilege which may be waived by our Senators and Representatives.
If sufficient of them should request the Commissioner of Agriculture to send their shares of the grain thus allowed them to the suffering farmers of Texas, they might be enabled to sow their crops, the constituents for whom in theory this grain is intended could well bear the temporary deprivation, and the donors would experience the satisfaction attending deeds of charity.
GROVER CLEVELAND
In July 2003, Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee (a member of the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, and an ardent supporter of the civil rights leadership) criticized the weather establishment for its selection of names with which to christen hurricanes, stating that “All racial groups should be represented.”
I can’t wait for hurricane Shaneequa.
You mean like some one who thinks you can capsize an island?
That’s a dumb title.