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Congressman Yucks It Up On House Floor Amid Naming Of Post Office For Fallen Soldier
dailycaller.com ^ | june 18, 2014 | betsy rothstein

Posted on 06/21/2014 11:25:21 PM PDT by lowbridge

On Tuesday, The Daily Caller‘s Mirror blog reported that Alaskan Republican Rep. Don Young was clowning around on the House floor during the naming of a post office. He stuck his fingers in his ears and made funny faces, much like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble on The Flintstones. Post office namings, as you might imagine, are not terribly exciting legislative moments in Washington.

But this one actually meant something.

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) sponsored the bill to honor a fallen solder.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 113th; alaska; donyoung; fallen; newjersey; scottgarrett
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1 posted on 06/21/2014 11:25:21 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Impeach for violating the No Funny Faces During Post Office Naming rule!

I’d guess he wasn’t paying as much attention as he could.


2 posted on 06/21/2014 11:27:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: lowbridge

Recall the sumbitch.
If he cannot restrain himself, in the honoring of a deceased military member, who gave his life for that twerp to be as insolent as he was, he deserves to be recalled, and stripped of his office.


3 posted on 06/22/2014 12:21:12 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: lowbridge; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty ping. Weird action from my Representative. I call on Don Young to explain himself.

4 posted on 06/22/2014 12:26:56 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: lowbridge

All democrats and a large majority of DC republicans need to go. They just suck.


5 posted on 06/22/2014 12:29:16 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: lowbridge

we really are mostly represented by scumbags, losers, and criminals. I’m so sick of politicians...


6 posted on 06/22/2014 12:31:06 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Terry L Smith

You can’t recall federally elected officials. However, Young has been in the House for 41 years, and it’s way past time to send him packing.


7 posted on 06/22/2014 12:35:47 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Any self-respecting person would immediately resign. Although I suppose in my mind I'm thinking that if I am a congressman, and in session at work, I am upholding an oath that I swore. Perhaps it has turned into such a bureaucracy and a circus that I have a too naive view of things. After having to fulfill some attendance rule, and the guy speaking has to fulfill some rule of naming all the post offices, a stupid face fits right in.

Although I guess I missed the part about them having to read everything about obamacare while in session.

8 posted on 06/22/2014 12:39:49 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Young is finished. That photo can be blown up into a full sized campaign poster by a TP primary candidiate and captioned: “Time to send an adult to Washington.”


9 posted on 06/22/2014 12:50:02 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: lowbridge

Don Young is a big spending, open borders RINO.

He did a 180 on his entire pro border record because he unfortunately used the term “wetbacks”. His premise was true though that cheap Mexican workers were less needed with mechanization.

http://donyoung.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=327198

With negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform continuing over the Easter state work period, Alaska’s Congressional Delegation is weighing in on the matter in a letter (attached) to leaders in both chambers, citing Alaska’s historic commitment to diversity and inclusion as the spirit to be kept in mind as the process moves forward.

Leading with an allusion to Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich’s successful fight for equality during the 1940s, and pointing out that Alaska’s civil rights movement preceded the national cause by roughly a generation, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich and Representative Don Young wrote that the 49th state may be considered the “reddest” of states by national political observers, but the reality on the ground shows it to be “a state that is highly diverse in population, culture and tradition.”

The delegation closes with a call to action for party leaders, asking for a three-pronged approach to be considered as discussion continues on the issue, including border security and enforcement, efficiency and well-crafted policy that is forward-looking:

Inspired by the words of our First Alaskans, and deeply committed to an inclusive state and nation, we join today to express our hope that the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill being drafted by our colleagues be brought to the floor of our respective bodies for consideration this session. Like our colleagues drafting the bill, we believe this legislation should secure our border, streamline our legal immigration system and provide a clear and responsible path to citizenship for those already here.


10 posted on 06/22/2014 12:50:59 AM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: lowbridge

This is something the media will be all over because he’s a Republican. If it was a Democrat, it would never be mentioned at all.


11 posted on 06/22/2014 12:57:16 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: lowbridge

based on the photo he’s either- drunk, high on pot, mentally ill or all three


12 posted on 06/22/2014 1:10:23 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: Terry L Smith
Don's so old and been in the Beltway so long that he's no longer Alaskan. But everybody understands that his senoirity is critical; although he seems to not understand this himself. I hope a true conservative runs against him the next cycle, I fear it will be an establishment plant!
13 posted on 06/22/2014 1:52:39 AM PDT by Redak
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To: Jet Jaguar

Active Duty ping. Weird action from my Representative. I call on Don Young to explain himself.


May I respectfully suggest calling on him with a bunch of Vets carrying baseball bats?

Don’t give a damn that he’s an R and ostensibly a Vet - you don’t pull that crap. Ever. If he’s too senile to understand that, he should step down.


14 posted on 06/22/2014 2:06:21 AM PDT by EC1
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To: lowbridge

Poster boy for why we need term limits.


15 posted on 06/22/2014 2:12:05 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: lowbridge

Apparently he doesn’t have a lot to do. Easy job.


16 posted on 06/22/2014 2:14:56 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: lowbridge; Jet Jaguar
How to handle the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUGeA2lur4

18 posted on 06/22/2014 2:40:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Border Crisis = Cloward-Piven, Chicano-style!)
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...Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich and Representative Don Young wrote that the 49th state may be considered the “reddest” of states by national political observers, but the reality on the ground shows it to be “a state that is highly diverse in population, culture and tradition.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOWot3efxY

19 posted on 06/22/2014 2:44:29 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Border Crisis = Cloward-Piven, Chicano-style!)
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To: lowbridge

The jackass aspect is not quite as bad as the RINO aspect.


20 posted on 06/22/2014 2:58:11 AM PDT by OldNewYork
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