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from Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/07/815901/meet-rep-steve-king-romneys-new-partner-in-congress/
Meet Rep. Steve King, Romneys New Partner In Congress
By Zack Beauchamp on Sep 7, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Today, Mitt Romney enthusiastically endorsed Rep. Steve King (R-IA), saying he needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington! If Romney were elected, then, hed be partnering on legislation with one of the most radical members of Congress:
1. King is the leading defender of dog-fighting and animal torture in the United States. King recently suggested there was something wrong with the priorities of people who wanted to criminalize dogfighting while boxing was legal. When challenged on that assertion, King went on a bizarre diatribe about how the kidnapping, rape, and forced abortion of an underage girl wouldnt be illegal under current law. Kings prodogfighting statements are consistent with a long legislative record of defending the inhumane practice as well as his recent sponsorship of legislation that would enable the torture of animals on farms while critically weakening food safety standards.
2. King compares immigrants to dogs, proposes keeping them out with electrified fence. Describing immigrants as birddogs, King said that we should only take frisker people, not the one thats over there sleeping on the corner. This makes his remedy for illegal immigration, an electric fence, unsurprising, which he justified by saying we do this with livestock all the time. He also thinks that multicultural groups are about self-pity and that immigrants who love taxes arent real Americans.
3. King believes states can ban birth control and that contraception may destroy America. King, who adheres to a revisionist interpretation of the 10th Amendment, disagrees with well-established Supreme Court precedent guaranteeing a womans right to control her own body. This may be because King thinks that access to birth control may let our birth rate get down below replacement rate were a dying civilization. Hypocritically, King has proposed that it is unconstitutional for states to ban foie gras. King, like Todd Akin, has never heard of a rape-induced pregnancy.
4. King tends birther. King personally searched for and discovered Obama birth announcement in Hawaii newspapers, he remains unconvinced that Obama was born inside the United States, positing the notion that they mightve announced that by telegram from Kenya.
5. King sympathized with a terrorist and secessionism. After being informed of an attempted right-wing suicide attack on an IRS building, King expressed empathy with the terrorists motives, saying Its sad the incident in Texas happened, but by the same token, its an agency that is unnecessary and when the day comes when that is over and we abolish the IRS, its going to be a happy day for America. Further, after the passage of the health care law, King intimated that parts of the country may need to secede from the Union, claiming that we wouldnt have to do that if his audience could beat the other side to a pulp and chase them down.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The GOP likes them mean. They mistake meanness for passion and conviction. The crazier the stuff is that comes out of their mouth's the more the GOP likes them. The only reason Akin is in trouble is because he revealed the GOP platform which they didn't want to talk about.