Do We Have A 'Silly Shit Politicians Say' Thread? If Not, Here We Are

[Deftscythe]

https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/stat...80755236999169

Steve King of Iowa with some pretty unambiguous white nationalism.

[Zealot]

Won his last four elections by margins of greater than 20%.

[Byrthnoth]

It must speak to his constituency, then.

[6souls]

Brown woman criticizes Spicer at a Apple Store, He tells her; "It's such a great country that allows you to be here."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39254125

Texas Dem Jessica Farrar proposes a bill that would fine Men for Masturbating and/or Ejaculating while not inside a Woman or Medical Facility
It's in response to the Anti-Abortion bill
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39251655

[Niiro]

Texas Dem Jessica Farrar proposes a bill that would fine Men for Masturbating and/or Ejaculating while not inside a Woman or Medical Facility
It's in response to the Anti-Abortion bill
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39251655

I am 100% behind this legislation if only because it's always more fun to do something when you know you're not supposed to be doing it.

[Ragnus]

Say what you will about the dogged questioning, that says a lot about Spicer to respond like that.

The Farrar bill is pretty hilarious.

[Ragnus]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...s-made-it-hard

Former NC Governor Pat McCrory, who waged the bigoted bathroom crusades, complains that he can't find a job anywhere because people assume he's a bigot.

[Ragnus]

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/03...rry_epa_e.html

"God is a polluter" -PA Representative Scott Perry

[Ragnus]

Posting this here, because there's more important things being discussed in the Trump thread

"Hey, look," he said. "I can't be doing so badly, because I'm President and you're not." - Easy D to Time Magazine.

http://time.com/4710614/donald-trump...alflow_twitter

[6souls]

North Dakota congressman Kevin Cramer partially agrees with Spicer's Hitler comment

A North Dakota congressman says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's remarks about Adolf Hitler and Syrian President Bashar Assad are "not without some validity."

Later, Cramer told The Associated Press he thinks Spicer meant to say "Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in warfare ... which is technically true."

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/04...-some-validity

[Zealot]

I feel like we as a nation don't use Stalin or Mao to denote monsters often enough. It's always Hitler this and Hitler that. Give me some Pol Pot now and again.

[Niiro]

Because we didn't fight any of them.

[6souls]

We argued with Stalin and 1 upped him in WWII when taking part of Germany.

[Ragnus]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...lary-i-pay-for

"Taxpayers don't pay my salary". Either that's complete incompetency or a brutal truth bomb from Representative Mullin

[Tokitoki]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...lary-i-pay-for

"Taxpayers don't pay my salary". Either that's complete incompetency or a brutal truth bomb from Representative Mullin

My first thought was "he's making more money from lobbyists and their clients."

[Zalrik21]

http://www.ibtimes.com/broadband-acc...s-more-2525719

In a town hall appearance held on Thursday, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. defended his decision to vote to repeal the Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules passed by the FCC last October by arguing that “nobody’s got to use the internet.”

“You know, nobody’s got to use the internet….I don’t think it’s my job to tell you that you cannot get advertising through your information being sold. My job, I think, is to tell you that you have the opportunity to do it and then you take it upon yourself to make the choice.”

The congressman’s press office doubled down on this, responding to a tweet claiming Sensenbrenner said “not to use the internet” by stating, “Actually, he said that nobody has to use the internet. They have a choice.”

[Ragnus]

This is going to be the largest brawl in utilities history to get internet added to it. It was bad enough when phone service was being debated.

[Melena]

Maine republican senators threaten to shut down the state government unless democrats overturn a voter approved tax on the top 2% of the wealthiest to fund schools, as well as additional tax breaks to the wealthy.

http://mainebeacon.com/maine-republi...ax-referendum/

[Ragnus]

Quote from a ME friend who I linked this to

"Fuck em. Please let them try this and see how little patience Mainers have for this bullshit"

[6souls]

MN Rep Tim Miller calls the Battle of Repubs vs Dems a "Civil War," Says God gave the US a Second Chance with Trump
http://www.citypages.com/news/celebr...-war/419629323