31 House Republicans voted to declare that wingnut wiretapper James O’Keefe was “owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States”. Since you guys in Republican districts have been asking me what to do, why not ask their staff how they feel about O’Keefe now? Republicans who support wiretapping in general (that is, most of them) ought to stand by their vote proudly. List after the flip.
Todd Akin [R-MO2] Roscoe Bartlett [R-MD6] Joe Barton [R-TX6] Rob Bishop [R-UT1] Jo Bonner [R-AL1] John Boozman [R-AR3] Paul Broun [R-GA10] Henry Brown [R-SC1] John Campbell [R-CA48] John Carter [R-TX31] Howard Coble [R-NC6] Tom Cole [R-OK4] Michael Conaway [R-TX11] John Culberson [R-TX7] Mary Fallin [R-OK5] Trent Franks [R-AZ2] Louis Gohmert [R-TX1] Kay Granger [R-TX12] Ralph Hall [R-TX4] Jim Jordan [R-OH4] Steve King [R-IA5] John Kline [R-MN2] Doug Lamborn [R-CO5] Blaine Luetkemeyer [R-MO9] Daniel Lungren [R-CA3] Kenny Marchant [R-TX24] Joseph Pitts [R-PA16] Bill Posey [R-FL15] Phil Roe [R-TN1] Jean Schmidt [R-OH2] John Shadegg [R-AZ3]
Econwatcher
What strikes you most about these guys is the immaturity. It’s all like some junior-high school game.
calipygian
It’s not on Drudge, so it never happened.
General Winfield Stuck
I knew sumpin whas up when I saw this.
Boris and Natasha of the 21st century.
Keith G
John Culberson [R-TX7] is my fuckwit. His office will be getting a call and an email.
I usually don’t bother since he is so around the bend, but at least I can play a WTF? card on his office staff.
Mike in NC
Wiretapping, waterboarding, whatever. It’s all good to them if it serves the agenda.
JenJen
OK, Tim. My congresswoman is Jean “Patriotic Scrunchie” Schmidt. Haven’t called her because, well, what’s the point?
Would love to ask if she’s interested in renouncing her own vote on that resolution, though. Should I? Hmmm…
ETA: Hell yes, I should. First thing in the morning when her office reopens. I’ll let you know what they tell me.
Viva BrisVegas
This bozo went in to Acorn dressed as a cartoon character and got cartoon answers. The Right then, as always, translated these cartoon answers into reality via the MSM.
So it goes.
It will be interesting to see how he wriggles out of this, as he inevitably will. There is nothing the Right is better at than wriggling out of shit.
Violet
I live across the street from my district’s boundary line. The neighboring district’s representative is on this list. I just might give that Rep. a call tomorrow and check in to make sure they’re still in full support of this guy.
Darius
Somehow, I knew without even looking that my representative would be on that list. Sigh.
El Cid
I think the Washington Post needs to introduce an entire new daily section based upon the unfair persecution of these heroic investigators.
danimal
We get to test my hypothesis that support for wiretapping, waterboarding and everything in between is inversely proportionate to the number of white, conservative, middle class Christians arrested for the alleged crimes.
IOW, when the children of Republicans are involved, the civil rights questions suddenly become much more relevant and the wingnuts start to pay attention to the concerns expressed by the hippies.
John PM
I am pleasantly surprised that my representative is not on the list. At the same time, I am gobsmacked that Michelle Backman did not vote for this resolution.
Loneoak
I am gobsmacked that Michelle Backman did not vote for this resolution.
She hasn’t yet actually figured out how to write or sponsor legislation. Remember, she wanted to ‘vote for prosperity.’
John O
@JenJen:
LOL. I’ll see your Schmidt and raise you a Kirk/Durbin/Burris full house.
inkadu
This is depressing me. Remember in the sixties (or for me, documentaries on the sixties), when hippies would be doing crazy stuff like blowing up buildings for peace and stealing books and protesting and marching in the streets and all that?
It seems that the right has really stolen the left’s political street theater, aided and abetted by a compliant MSM. As a well-groomed leftie, I don’t think I’d try any of that sixties stuff now; I’d probably be thrown in Gitmo for terrorism and disowned by everyone but the Communist Party of America.
Eric U.
I knew without looking that my rep wasn’t on the list. He would be a centrist if the House republican leadership would let him. He sometimes seems baffled by the republican bullshit he’s forced to support.
General Winfield Stuck
@inkadu:
Yes, but it’s like Daffy Duck goes to law school.
GregB
First we need to begin the criminal profiling of these rat-fuckers.
Second we need to determine if they were working in cahoots with Al Qaeda in order to probe the weaknesses in congressional and governmental offices.
Perhaps some enhanced interrogation is in order.
I hear Camp No has at least three openings.
-G
Mark S.
Never mind Bachman, where the hell is my favorite wingnut Virginia Foxx?
Oh, Virginia, I’m going to have to take your picture down from my locker.
sacrablue
Hey Tim,
Need more info so I don’t sound like a complete idiot when I call my congressman’s office to demand an explanation. What was the bill number? When was the vote. I relish the idea of calling out my Congressclown for his childish, reactionary vote. We even have someone has decent to run against him this time.
Fitzwili
Thanks for doing this Tim!
Tomorrow is my day off. After I call the usual suspects to push for PTDB, I am going to make a triple espresso, put on some Gilbert and Sullivan( the music of the working man !), fix an arugula salad,and try to embody any other elite liberal stereotype I can think of. Then I am going to start calling this ship of fools and I plan to enjoy asking everyone on that list how they could encourage such felonious investigation and if they are under investigation by the FBI for their part in this !
Zach
@Viva BrisVegas:
The most tragic part of this is that Hannah Giles instantly entered the list of the 5 most influential conservatives her age or younger by… successfully passing for a Baltimore prostitute. Progress!
Ben S.
@John O:
Hey, me too (when I’m not at college). Where do you live in the 10th? And who do you like in the Democratic primaries?
Malacylpse
It will be interesting to see how he wriggles out of this, as he inevitably will.
I’m assuming Presidential pardon, in an effort to reach across the aisle.
Zifnab
@Darius: Ditto that.
Violet
@sacrablue:
I think this is info on the resolution:
The link indicates that it lacked support. Don’t know if it actually passed.
Something Fabulous
Here’s the part I love: over on Gawker they were able to suss out details on the likely ids of these bozos by noting that they are all friends of one another on facebook.
eta: the t-buggers, not the r-critters, that is. we all know the critters prefer the Tweet.
gnomedad
@Viva BrisVegas:
I’m surprised they didn’t go in blackface.
PTirebiter
@John PM:
I was similarly shocked by the absence of mine, Sam Johnson TX-3.
Maybe Tim should cross reference the date with MAMBLA and Klan meeting schedules.
Midnight Marauder
So one could say, then, that these good people are objectively pro-unauthorized wiretapping?
demkat620
Remind me agian how it is that we are losing to these clowns? Cause I don’t get it.
Notorious P.A.T.
So true. Actually, that’s all they are good at.
Because our party leader insists on reaching out to them, and involving them, and giving them concessions in hopes of getting something back.
inkadu
@General Winfield Stuck: Daffy Duck goes to law school? That sounds like a great WB cartoon. Wish they’d run it. And with the original Daffy Duck who couldn’t do much more than laugh, bounce on his ass, and grab his webbed feet.
EEH
No surprise to me that Doug Lamborn is on that list. Makes me twice as glad that I don’t live in Colorado Springs where I’d be represented by this horse’s patoot.
MTmofo
@calipygian:
It is now. middle column, using a fuxnews link. But we know how fairly unbalanced that report will be.
Cain
I think we should do something else in addition to phone banking. Since the Supremes decided that ads by anyone, foreign countries and the like is free speech I think we should start asking the government of france, germany, and anybody else to start giving money to our congress man to pass healthcare. Hell if they get money from them they don’t need to worry about healthcare insurance companies right? I mean, it’ll work.
So while phone banking tell em that you’re also talking to the ministries in france and germany to help lobby for this bill. Do that especially to republicans haha…
I need some scotch. Abelour anyone?
cain
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@John O:
What’s wrong with Durbin? I could have swore that I saw him listed as the 2nd most liberal Democrat in the Senate. Burris is the 4th most liberal.
Scott H
@JenJen: heh, my condolences. At least I don’t have Steve Chabot to kick around anymore. Driehaus isn’t all that impressive, but he’s
betterless of an idiot than Chabot.inkadu
Anyone remember newsmaps? They were the rage in the early aughts. What they do is measure how big a story is by hits, number of articles, etc, and assembles them all on a map so you can see what the big stories are.
I find it really helpful to know that the things I was blogging about avidly were 8-point font news items.
I haven’t heard anybody talking about them in a few years, but they’re still out there, if anyone’s interested:
Newsmap for US National News. (you can add sports and business on the bottom right.)
Its good to see that politics is outscoring the Kerrigan family feud (though, of course, my thoughts and prayers go out to the Kerrigan family during this difficult time).
PTirebiter
Since Tim inspired me to go to my Republican Congressman’s web site, (Sam Johnson TX) maybe Tim is willing to help Sam better serve me by taking Sam’s survey.
1. Do you support or oppose the healthcare reform legislation that passed the House?
Support
Oppose
2. Do you like your health insurance?
YesNo
3. Do you think the stimulus has created jobs?
YesNo
4. Do you think that the stimulus was worth it?
YesNo
5. Do you support or oppose the national energy tax – sometimes called cap-and-trade – that passed the House this summer?
Support
Oppose
6. The President has ordered the closing of the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba by January without a plan of where to move the suspected terrorists. Do you feel the President’s plan will make America safer?
YesNo
7. Do you support using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions?
YesNo
8. Do you support allowing illegal immigrants to participate in the government-run health plan?
YesNo
9. Do you support the Administration’s plan to try terrorists in New York City and give suspected terrorists constitutional protections?
YesNo
10. With unemployment over 10%, do you support the so-called second stimulus?
YesNo
demkat620
Man, the way Jonathan Turley is talking about this, I am getting all hot and bothered. I may need a shower and a cigarette. More charges? More conspirators? Could fat Andy Breitbart and the Eggman be involved?
Wouldn’t that be sweet?
JK
Steve Doocy and Glenn Beck will head the James O’Keefe Legal Defense Fund.
Zach
@gnomedad:
The woman’s fake name was Kenya. That close enough?
Notorious P.A.T.
@Cain:
Awesome.
JenJen
@Scott H: And he’s in trubs. I campaigned hard for Driehaus in ’08 even though it was a neighboring district. I’ll do it again, but what the hell is Combover doing back in the race, and viable again?
@John O: I’m all-in with Sherrod Brown, I guess. :-)
me
At least my Republican congressman (Paul Ryan) isn’t dumb enough to appear on that list.
Annie
Call the Republicans and advocate for waterboarding O’Keefe to find out what he knows. After all this is not torture. And, then, advocate we send him to Gitmo for seven+ years without due process. After, all why does he need a lawyer if he has nothing to hide?
And, please, please, don’t transport him to the US for trial. Because our legal system is not designed to convict the guilty. The last thing we need is to give him a platform for a “show trial,” where he will have the ability spew his political beliefs. Nooooooooooooooo
Ben JB
@John O: I can’t beat you on Kirk–I’ve got Luis Gutierrez in one of the most gerrymandered districts I’ve ever seen, but I’m happyish with him. But what’s wrong with Durbin and Burris? (I mean, what’s wrong with Burris besides the obvious?)
And what’s your zip? I wouldn’t mind calling Kirk tomorrow just to see what happens when I tell him to pass the damn bill.
Fitzwili
@ Ptirebiter – just took survey and in comments section asked if he supported the felonious act of wiretapping a US Senator’s office. Thanks for the suggestion!
kay
“Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) still praised O’Keefe’s work over the summer filming ACORN employees while undercover after the activist was arrested by the FBI Tuesday after he and three others allegedly attempted to wiretap the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in New Orleans.
“Individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity like ACORN receiving federal tax dollars should be praised,” Olson told The Hill in an e-mail. “However, if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Senator Landrieu’s office – that is not something I condone.”
What an ass.
SiubhanDuinne
@inkadu #39
Wow, I hadn’t heard about the Kerrigan story. How sad.
Back on topic, my own critter, surprisingly, is not on the list. I’m actually kind of amazed there are only 31 repunks listed. Someone wasn’t paying attention when that particular memo went out.
P.S. @Mark S. #19: I have to confess an unhealthy fascination with Virginia Foxx and not in a good way. First of all, it’s really hard to believe she holds a doctorate. In anything. From any accredited university (no offense to any Juicers from UNC-G, but come ON!). Second, and I know this is risky, but she is only 66 years old? Really? *Really?* I’m nearly two years older chronologically but — and I *truly* don’t think I’m delusional here — I promise you, if you put the two of us together, there is nobody who would think that she was younger. Gods know I’m no beauty and I look my age and not pretending otherwise, but I swear Foxx looks like someone in her 80s. Am I just in denial? (And yeah, I’m guilty of ageism and lookism here. I’m also +3. Sue me.)
Thoughtcrime
@demkat620:
Ever hear of the Washington Generals?
Thoughtcrime
@GregB:
They sure look like enemy combatants to me.
KCinDC
Tim, you’re right about the 31 cosponsors, but you missed the original sponsor: Pete Olson (R-TX-22).
r€nato
Shadegg’s mine, and I never have an opportunity to call him about anything whatsoever because I know he doesn’t give a damn what I think since I am diametrically opposed to about everything he stands for.
I can’t even call him on this issue; Shadegg is retiring after his term is up, so what does he care where he stands on this? He’s going into a lobbying career.
soonergrunt
Finally, a reason to call my asshole congressman, Tom Cole (OK-4)!!
YAY, ME!!
Mark S.
@SiubhanDuinne:
No. Foxx looks easily ten years older than my mother who’s in her seventies.
Legalize
Finally, a (fun) reason for me to call Jean Schmidt’s office!
Mnemosyne
@inkadu:
Nah — I much prefer the Daffy who can announce to the audience that his predicament is due to “pronoun trouble.” That one I could totally see in law school.
KDP
OT re: Senate office break-in, but not re: phone-banking.
Our calls seem to be working, but continued pressure on the Senate may now be the priority.
Just saw this on TPM: http://tinyurl.com/ybb8fxj
Also Elizabeth Warren on Jon Stewart tonight suggesting that more calls to Congress demanding the passage of comprehensive financial regulation.
Just saying.
Paul in KY
I can’t believe one of our Republicans in KY wasn’t on the list. Wonders never cease.