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  1. 1.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I always liked him best with the James Gang. I’m old…

    kthnxbai

  2. 2.

    JCT

    So classy, hope the morans who elected this asshat are happy with themselves. Race to the bottom! Yeah!

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    Heh. That happened about one town over from where my parents live (in the summer, anyway — they’re snowbirds).

    We’re not real big on that whole “emotion” and “hysteria” thing in Chicagoland, so this will probably hurt Walsh in a pretty major way even with Republicans.

  5. 5.

    lamh35

    ugh, I’m really disgusted by those people outside Coach Joe’s House cheering him on like he won some great victory. Ugh, there are real victims of that Sadusky guy. Joe P, is NOT the one who needs support in all this.

    I would love any of those outside Joe P’s home cheering to look at their sons or nephews or lil brothers and decide how appropriate these “cheers for Paterno” would feel is it was their loved ones who were preyed upon.

    Seriously he a goddamn football coach, not a god. Is football so important to some people?

  6. 6.

    Hunter Gathers

    He’s been redistricted into another GOPer’s seat, so we won’t have Joe Walsh to kick around much longer.

  7. 7.

    sven

    One thing this crisis has clearly shown is the extent to which many elected officials simply don’t understand the issues they are supposed to be handling. This has always been true to some extent but as policy issues have become more complicated, the gap continues to grow. This is where the issue of political access has particular salience. Elected officials who clearly understand the stakes may be corrupted but it is dollars rather than face time which does the damage. For those who are over their heads, the parade of donors presenting ‘experts’ can make a strong impression. Unfortunately, this problem is spreading rapidly to the state and local levels.

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    I’m going to ask this again……

    why the fuck isn’t he IN JAIL FOR NON-PAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT?

  10. 10.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Don’t worry, after Joe loses next year, he can join fellow two-bit unemployed huckster Newt Gingrich in fighting to protect families.

  13. 13.

    lamh35

    @Maude: That’s def prob it. Ugh it pisses me off though. I don’t have children, but I do have cousins, neices and nephews. The idea that anyone would dare deem accomplishments as a football coach over any of my family kids, is just ughh. and like I said, thay ain’t even my kids and I get pissed thinking about anything happening to them

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @lamh35:

    Seriously he a goddamn football coach, not a god. Is football so important to some people?

    I believe that the answer to this question is “not only yes, but Nittany Lions yes!”

    It’s pretty sad, I’ll agree with you there.

  15. 15.

    scav

    He is a loon and we’ll be well rid of him but I will give him this: he is apparently on-camera and more or less interacting with people that disagree with him. Low bar and I’ll still drink to his exit but he’s a sincere loon, not entirely a grifter loon. Damning with faint praise is what I’m aiming for (but there are people I’ll damn without even that).

  16. 16.

    Take Them at Their Turd

    Classic. Get the facts wrong, raise your voice, get in the face of anyone who disagrees with you, raise your voice again, then blame both sides equally, following the instructions on page 1 of the false-equivalency playbook. Ladies and gentlemen, the “civil” version of your (sorry; “the”) the 21st-century Republican Party in action.

    If Joe Walsh had a third brain cell, it would have no choice but to take the other two to court for failure to provide child support. The judge would then be forced to throw out the suit on the grounds that the first two don’t have the necessary means to provide support.

  17. 17.

    Rome Again

    Who? Oh, I’m sorry. There is only one famous Joe Walsh in my world and this loser ain’t him.

    ETA: and yes, I DID see the post title, thanks! :)

  19. 19.

    J

    @sven: What is more, don’t understand because they deliberately cultivate ignorance, which they do because the crazy system of incentives in our politics rewards ignorance with money and esteem.

  24. 24.

    Mark B.

    I’m not terribly bothered by his manicness*, but his doctrinaire devotion to pretending that getting rid of all government intervention is going to make everybody rich … is just fucking stupid. Private enterprise needs regulation to keep them from destroying the commons and engaging in deceptive and predatory practices. The effect of removing regulation would be for the most predatory and irresponsible businesses to gain an economic advantage over businesses which take a larger view. We’ve seen exactly that happen with the deregulation of the mortgage industry during the Clinton and Bush years. We don’t need to go further down that road to know it’s an economic loser.

    *Although his attempts to talk over and silence people who disagree with him is just rude, but to be honest, I’ve seen worse. You want a job, don’t you?

  25. 25.

    Mino

    The scariest thing is we’re getting more stupid as Republicans hamstring education. And rewrite the text books.

  27. 27.

    Mino

    And Bloomburg was making the same Barney Frank defense of the banks just recently. And HE knows better.

  28. 28.

    sublime33

    Thank god my subdivision got gerrymandered so that I am about 500 yards outside his district.

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    boss bitch

    From Twitter: Kenneth Vogel

    Ugh. Mark Block alleges Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar’s son works @POLITICO. Reference to @HotlineJosh, who isn’t related & doesn’t work here

  35. 35.

    JD Rhoades

    Don’t worry, after Joe loses next year, he can join fellow two-bit unemployed huckster Newt Gingrich in fighting to protect families.

    He’ll have either a nationally syndicated radio talk show or a FOX news show within six months. The rubes love them some raging, screaming, frothing-at-the-mouth wingnuts.

  37. 37.

    msskwesq

    Representative Walsh is on his way out. Redistricting will take his seat away soon. As a Chicagoan, I can tell you NO ONE supports this bozo. His deadbeat status and his crazy tea party ideas are not popular in Illinois. Most people are really embarrassed by his representing Illinois in any way.

  38. 38.

    Carnacki

    I really liked the woman in this video. Even though he got in her face, waving his hands and trying to intimidate her, she didn’t back down at all and seemed to know her facts.

  40. 40.

    msskwesq

    @rikyrah: I agree with your question, why is he not in jail for this dodging of child support? As an attorney, I am occasionally appointed by the court to represent parents that are behind in child support. Most of my clients are far behind, but not to the $100K level as is Walsh. Furthermore, most of them are either disabled, unemployed, and/or low wage earners. THEY go to jail in most cases. It costs the state more to go after these parents than they are ever able to collect in back support. Walsh is getting the upper-class court pass. Sickening. I hope the judge in his case does the right thing and forces Walsh to pay the support in full or go to jail. I won’t hold my breath.

  41. 41.

    Jay in Oregon

    So this asshole Walsh likes to get in women’s faces and try to shout them down when they don’t kowtow to his opinions.

    I can’t imagine why he’s divorced.

  42. 42.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    THAT’S NOT THE PROBLEM…

    THE PROBLEM IS THAT BARNEY FRANK IS GAY!

    AND HE’S FAT… HE’S GAY AND HE’S FAT!

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

  43. 43.

    Joel

    You know you’ve seen enough wingnut bullshit when Rep. Walsh’s behavior in this video doesn’t even qualify as a “meltdown”.

  44. 44.

    James Hare

    As somebody who pays his child support, this fucker really annoys me. I haven’t seen my 11 year old daughter in 5 years. I can count the number of times I’ve seen her on my fingers. I still pay my obligation because that is the very least I can do. Men who don’t live up to their child support obligations are the lowest kind of scum. This asshole has no right to yell at anyone because he can’t live up to the most basic human responsibility — looking after your own kids.

  45. 45.

    Cluttered Mind

    Republicans are vehement supporters of family values. They don’t seem too keen on supporting actual physical families though. What was it that Newt told his second wife when she confronted him about his philandering? It was something like “It doesn’t matter what I do, only what I say”, wasn’t it?

  46. 46.

    Uncle Omar

    @rikyrah:He’s safe as long as Congress is in session…they have constitutional immunity from process while in session. We used to have a Congress-critter who owed money all over the State, but until he was defeated, no one could drag his worthless ass into court. Perhaps in January, 2013, Mr. Walsh will have the opportunity to sample the fine cuisine at the Cook County lock-up. But, I’m sure he’ll plead that he doesn’t have a job and therefore can’t pay.

  47. 47.

    William Hurley

    ….and the dead-beat dad is certainly consistent!

    I was reminded of the scene in 48 Hours where Eddie Murphy asks for Nolte’s badge and a gun before heading into the hillbilly bar. Murphy educates “Jack”, telling him that “the only thing that kept us from kicking their (the cops’) asses were their guns and badges”.

    So, if the dead-beat family award winner were to carry on like that in any bar in America without his Congressional “badge”, the conversation would end with Joey trying to mumble the “whys” and “hows” of his state to an ER doctor through the hole where his teeth used to be.

  48. 48.

    G

    @rikyrah:

    Much as the right wing and Joe himself would like it we don’t really have debtor’s prisons. We do have some really scary areas to live, or even some bridges to live under for the really destitute. I think we figure why should taxpayers give deadbeats three hots and a cot when they can die of exposure, starvation and lack of medical care for free.

    Mathew chapter 25 verse 31 notwithstanding, that appears the polilcy of the country, a policy set by the “Christian” Right

  49. 49.

    JasonF

    @Kristine: Howdy, neighbor!

    The sad part is that I just moved up here from the city about six months ago. Until then, I was represented by Jan Schakowsky. What a difference a few miles makes.

  53. 53.

    Rorgg

    @JCT: Yeah, I’ll admit it, I voted independent in IL-08 in 2010, which helped Walsh unseat Melissa Bean, who was a horrific Blue Dog. But I’d already written and told her I wouldn’t vote for her again, and daggummit, I’m a man of my word.

    Walsh is doomed in any case. The new district drawn is basically a ring around exurban Chicago, pretty heavily red, but more importantly, it also includes another sitting GOP rep, so he’ll probably not even make it out of the primary, or have to try to run in another district that’s not so red.

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