On September 9. 2013, GOP Congressman Ted Poe of southeastern Texas introduced H.RES. 58 (below), a binding resolution that would prohibit federal funds for the use of military force against Syria unless specifically authorized by Congress.
Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 13, 2013. Congressman Steve Stockman is from Texas, and they do things bigger there. Bigger ain’t always better, but it is bigger and that seems awfully important to Texans. In this...
During his two undeserved years in Congress Congressloon Allen West ought to have followed the rule he used in his letter responding to the Florida Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ polite appeal...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, January 3, 2013 Are you surprised?? P.S. Thanks to Scott Raymond (see his tweet below) for the great line I paraphrased in my title: “Michele Bachmann, Repeal Yourself!” Also,...
Another day, another weepy Republican congressloon – this time Utah’s Raul Labrador – moaning and groaning about how mean President Obama was to place the responsibility for the ever difficult fiscal cliff negotiations at...
by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 10, 2012 John Boehner, the wily Speaker of the House, is trying to simultaneously outthink and outmaneuver virtually everyone during the battle over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He knows...
by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 9, 2012 “I don’t have a problem with lunatic being used in the Federal law. Apparently, I was the only one here on the floor that didn’t have a...
(Soon-to-be-former) Congressloon Allen West of Florida’s gold coast 18th district conceded the November 6th election to now Democratic Congressman-to-be Patrick Murphy after receiving nearly 2,000 less votes than his Mr. Murphy. Lawyers for the soon-to-be-just-plain-loon Allen...
Bigotry masquerading as freedom and liberty In the midst of the political discussion of LGBT rights newly energized by Mitt Romney’s high school “high jinks” directed at a classmate suspected of being gay, last...
I was doing a Google image search today for “psychiatric nurse uniform” (don’t ask) and about 20% down the first image page results there’s a fine portrait of Congressman Allen West, who has lately...
