GOP Congressloon Steve Stockman Crosses The Hruska Line, Brings The Mad Man Of Detroit To State Of The Union Address

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 case, the congressman is making a bigger-ain’t-better statement as one can imagine: as a guest at tonight’s State of the Union address, he’s bringing Ted Nugent – The Nuge, the Whackmaster – the hopelessly unhinged rocker of the unhinged. As you’ll see, so unhinged is Stockman’s choice that he has fallen well below what I’m introducing today, the Hruska Line. . .

His past is prologue

In the 2012 elections, Stockman, who served in Congress previously from 1995-1997, arose again phoenix-like from the newly-minted 36th Congressional District where he won 70% of the vote last November. That’s correct, seven out of ten voters chose this guy. Here’s a few lowlights of his previous invasion of the House of Representatives from 1995-1997:

In 1995,for Guns & Ammo magazine, Stockman wrote that the 1993 Branch Davidian disaster in Waco was masterminded by President Clinton to help him garner support for an assault weapon ban. He also contended that Attorney General Janet Reno be “indicted for premeditated murder” for her role.¹

On March 22, 1995, Stockman sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Janet Reno inquiring about a raid against “citizens militias groups” that he had been told was planned for March 25 or 26.

“A paramilitary-style attack against Americans who pose no risk to others, even if violations of criminal law might be imputed to them, would run the risk of an irreparable breach between the federal government and the public, especially if it turned out to be an ill-considered, poorly planned but bloody fiasco like Waco.”²

Since his 2012 victory, Mr. Stockman’s mental status has not improved. Almost immediately upon completing his oath of office, he introduced H.R. 35, the “Safe Schools Act.” Counter-intuitively he proposes to repeal the legislation creating “gun free school zones,” which passed into law in 1996 after the Supreme Court struck down its 1990 predecessor.³ The ’96 reenactment, riddled with exceptions favorable to gun owners, is on Stockman’s kill list. In a comment whose truth is logically ununprovable , Stockman asserted, “Not only has the bill utterly failed to protect our children it appears to have placed them in danger.”

He also issued this statement:

The White House’s recent announcement they will use executive orders and executive actions to infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms is an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic.

I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment.

Impeachment, no less . . .

The stupid wing of the Republican party has the right to represent itself! Introducing the Roman Hruska Line.

 

Steve Stockman may say anything he likes. Stupid things. Smart things. After all, we’re a representative government, and stupid things are not unprecedented within Congress. In 1970, Nebraska’s Republican Senator Roman Hruska reminded the Senate that even if G. Harold Carswell, Nixon’s Supreme Court nominee, was a bit dodgy in the brain:

“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”⁴

And with that level of reasoning, Senator Hruska established the Hruska Line, a line of thought so astoundingly inadequate for a person representing the American people that it sets the absolute minimum standard for service in the national government. Any activity falling below the Hruska line renders one absolutely unqualified to serve. (My Hruska Line is based upon baseball’s so-called Mendoza line.)⁵

At the State of the Union address, Ted comported himself with mild abandon. It must have been difficult to be within 100 feet of his arch enemies, i.e. anyone on the blue side of the aisle, the President, Vice President, Hilary Clinton, and pretty much everone else in the Obama government. He summed up his reaction to the President’s address:

“And every time he’s done speaking, he either does just the opposite or nothing at all. So there was nothing tonight to encourage my belief or support for the president. I believe that the scam rages on, and I think that in the next four years, he will prove what he did following his first State of the Union speech, and nothing will be improved. I’m afraid it will be worsened.”

On the administration’s approach to gun safety and regulation:

Nothing [Obama] proposes or nothing he’s been proposed would have stopped any of the shootings. None of those shooters are gonna register anything. Canada finally abandoned its multibillion waste of a C68 gun law where goose hunters and farmers had to register their squirrel rifles. And it didn’t do anything to reduce crime or save any lives. Who doesn’t know this? Who doesn’t know that registration and limitation on magazine capacity and the color of guns has anything to do with saving lives and reducing crime?”

Nonetheless, his good conduct at the annual State of the Union clambake can’t cover up his well-established record of mouthiness.⁶ Below is a selection of Ted Nugent’s sayings, advice, parables, and cautionary tales.

Four things leap out from this exercise:

1. Nuge’s quotes below are things he said in public. Imagine what he’s said in private. Imagine the thoughts he thinks.
2.  This is the gut who Steve Stockman invited to the State of the Union address ;
3. That choice falls well below the Hruska Line of minimal competence required to serve in the national government.
4. Therefore, Congressloon Steve Stockman must immediately resign.

Thoughts of Chairman Nuge
(his sayings begin below the image)

 

Ted Nugent On Ted Nugent:

“I’m an extremely loving, passionate man! And people who investigate me honestly — without the baggage of political correctness — ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damn nice guy! And if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your fucking dick!”

“I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.”

“[Rep. Debbie] Wasserman Schultz is such a brain-dead, soulless idiot. I could not be more proud that this soulless, heartless idiot feebly attempts to find fault with Ted Nugent, because I am on the right track and she just encourages me to stand stronger.”

On President Obama:

Prior to the State of the Union address: “I already know where the president stands and his deceit and his scam.  I will  remain respectful in the decorum department. I’m so sweet I can  hardly stand myself.”

“Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary [Clinton], you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.”

“I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama is a communist. Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.”

“If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

“Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America.”

On Americans who voted for Barack Obama:

“Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives.”

“Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools”

On gun safety and control:

“Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead. Anybody that wants to make me unarmed and helpless, we’re gonna literally create the proven places that where more innocents are killed called ‘gun-free zones,’ we’re gonna beat you. We’re gonna vote you out of office, or suck on my machine gun, you can take it whichever way you want.”

“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.”

“The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.”

“To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.”

Video: Ted on 2nd Amendment

On Women:

I met a couple guys in line yesterday who go, `Write something to my girlfriend, she won`t let me go hunting.` I wrote her something and I said, `Drop dead, bitch.` What good is she, trade her in, get a Dalmatian. Who needs the wench?”

“What’s a feminist? Some fat pig who doesn’t get it often enough?”

“You probably can’t use the term `toxic cunt’ in your magazine, but that’s what she is. Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” — Describing Hillary Clinton

“[I get a] full predator spiritual erection” from hunting “bear, lions, coons, housecats, escaped chimps, small children, scared women and everything else that can be chased and/or hunted.”

“Foreigners are assholes; foreigners are scum; I don’t like ‘em; I don’t want ‘em in this country; I don’t want ‘em selling me doughnuts; I don’t want ‘em pumping my gas; I don’t want ‘em downwind of my life-OK? So anyhow, and I’m dead serious…”

On Race Relations:

“I use the word nigger a lot because I hang around with a lot of niggers, and they use the word nigger, and I tend to use words that communicate.”

“Apartheid isn`t that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I`m one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands � These are different people. You give `em toothpaste, they fucking eat it … I hope they don`t become civilized. They`re way ahead of the game.”

On social welfare and contraception:

“What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birth control abortions & lives”

On Criminology:

“I don’t like repeat offenders. I like dead repeat offenders!”

On immigration policy:

“In an unauthorized entry, armed like they are right now, invading our country, I’d like to shoot ‘em dead.”

On activism and American History:

“The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil — instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.”

“I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.”

“Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno… I think he’s one of the best hunting dogs in the world.”