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The Stones on These Arrogant Fucks

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Here’s giant flatulating West Texas asshole Randy Neugebauer (R-TX-19) telling a National Park Ranger that she ought to be “ashamed” for following orders and putting up barricades to close the World War II Memorial because Randy voted for a shutdown.

One of the two people talking in this video are drawing a Federal paycheck right now, and it sure as hell isn’t the woman who has to put up with Randy’s bullying.

(via Benen)

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  1. 1.

    kindness

    Oh DPM, you do not want the feds coming after you like they did with that Silk Road guy. I don’t think even using Tor will protect you.

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    I wonder if they could clean the audio up a bit and get this whole clip onto the network news tonight?

    Wish it was longer; suspect there was more grandstanding prior.

    Most viewers know it is Republicans in Congress, and not the Park Service, that closed the National Parks.

  3. 3.

    shelly

    If it hasn’t already, this needs to go viral. Glad to see that there were some spectators who gave him some ‘how dare you…’ backlash.

  5. 5.

    Jerzy Russian

    By calling Mr. Neugebauer an asshole, I think you are being insulting to actual assholes, which do perform an important function for the body.

  6. 6.

    wenchacha

    Ha! “Let’s take this somewhere else.” Was that Randy, or one of his entourage saying that? Because the guy with the bike helmet told ol’ Randy that the shutdown was his fault. Shame on him for badgering the Natl Park Ranger, who just happened to be a woman.

  7. 7.

    Cassidy

    The meme is already spreading that Obama personally ordered the closing of the veterans memorial.

  8. 8.

    Triumph

    You have to forgive the Republican congressman, he’s used to not having to do his job and just doing whatever the blue fuck he pleases, so he’s understandably confused the ranger isn’t following his sterling example of professional conduct.

  9. 9.

    Hill Dweller

    The twitter machine is telling me Wolf Blitzer’s begging every Dem that comes on his shoe to negotiate with the crazies in the House.

  10. 10.

    Hill Dweller

    @Cassidy:

    The meme is already spreading that Obama personally ordered the closing of the veterans memorial.

    The sheep have their marching orders.

  11. 11.

    nemesis

    This and other similar stories are deflection. The gop is losing the messaging battle so they always, always have an outrage default position to fall back on. We are better off ignoring this, even though the rep is a turd. We need to stay focused. Dems dont need to name call or backstab. The gop is proving quite capable of handling that themselves. Lets hope Dems remain united and no capitulation.

  12. 12.

    Elizabelle

    I feel terribly for the businesses around Yosemite.

    First the Rim fire during prime tourist season, and now a shutdown for the early fall tourists. 600 of 750 Park staffers are furloughed. Yosemite closes at 3:00 p Pacific, although some back country hikers are likely to be traipsing about.

    Yosemite’s in California’s 4th congressional district, represented by the very conservative Tom McClintock.

  13. 13.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Randolph Neugebauer was born in 1949, which would have made him prime draft age for Vietnam, and yet there is no record of any military service in his biography.

    Lots of chickenhawks trying to act like war heroes here.

    I won’t even bother talking about the German surname.

  15. 15.

    WereBear

    I think this explains how the sex worker business booms wherever R’s congregate.

    Because Democrats will sleep with each other, but Republicans have to pay.

    Rachel Maddow had a photo lineup of the intrasigent Congressionals that have put us in this place.

    White, doughy, grinning imbeciles who I’m sure still refer to their father as “mah daddy,” who refuse to believe they are getting chubby and their collars are too tight and increases the jowls they show. The kind who paws the female employees and laughs if they get upset, “Ah was jest bein’ friendly. We all want to be friends here.”

    They never get their own beer during “the football.” That’s what women are for.

    I realize now I’m having a bit of a flashback. I’ll take some aspirin and think happy thoughts.

  17. 17.

    MattF

    But… Neugebauer has such a BIG flag on his jacket. He can’t possibly be wrong about anything.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    @wenchacha:

    “Let’s take this somewhere else.” Was that Randy, or one of his entourage saying that?

    Guessing it was an aide. Who realized they weren’t in Fox News channel world, but among people who knew the score.

    Bully and flee. For the cameras.

    What a congresscritter.

  21. 21.

    aimai

    Wish he’d been mobbed by the tourists but I doubt they are well enough informed. Frankly I think furloughed workers should be staking out and leafleting at all the public memorials in DC to inform the tourists just who is responsible and prevent the asshole republicans from having any photo ops.

  22. 22.

    The Red Pen

    In related news, this is awesome. Money quote:

    “I don’t know there’s just something about the word Reagan that makes [Reagancare] work,”says Todd Johnson, an unemployed civil war reenactment specialist from Huntsville, Alabama, “It sounds lighter, more bright and optimistic. Obamacare has a very dark tone to it. It seems shadowy and ominous.

    Obama dark. Reagan light. Whoodathunkit?

  23. 23.

    Napoleon

    By the way, the Republicans have given the media enough ammo in the last 24/48 hours that any of the major networks could do an absolutely devastating piece using nothing but their own words.

  24. 24.

    kednedub

    Just tried to e-mail and call Rep. Neugebauer to communicate my sentiments on his bullying, a-holish ways… office closed, mailbox full, and will not accept emails from zip codes outside of the district he represents… imagine that?

  26. 26.

    Scott S.

    I used to live in Lubbock, Neugebauer’s home district, and I know he wants to imagine that he can become a Teabag Hero. But honestly, I don’t think he really has it in him. He’s not all that well-liked, even in Lubbock, where everyone has him pegged as a Crooked Businessman Fellator first and everything else dead last.

    Plus, he comes across as desperately needy. That flag in his jacket pocket is just too much — it makes him look like a dork, because no one wears a flag that way. He’s overcompensating because he wants Teabag Luv, and he knows he’ll never get it. He does okay with the bullying when he’s yelling at a woman who’s required as part of her job to treat Congressman nicely and not, say, kick their balls up into their esophagus. But he runs like a coward when people start pushing back. He’s a coward, and it shows.

    Teabag Heroes have to be assholes because that’s just Who They Are, not Who They Really, Really Wish They Could Be.

  30. 30.

    shelly

    ““Let’s take this somewhere else.” Was that Randy, or one of his entourage saying that?”
    ********

    Brave Sir Robin.

  32. 32.

    The Red Pen

    @TooManyJens:

    Shots fired on Capitol Hill. No joke. They’re on lockdown.

    Apparently, someone has shot the House Republican Caucus in the foot, and they’re claiming is was Obama.

    Seriously, though, I can’t find any linkies on this. Any help?

  33. 33.

    Cacti

    Notice 2 things in this video:

    1. Congressman Texas toughguy finds a female park ranger to scold.

    2. When confronted by a man on a bicycle who sticks up for the ranger, he turns his back and walks away.

  34. 34.

    shelly

    “Obama dark. Reagan light. Whoodathunkit?”
    *******

    So if we just change the name, that’ll make them reopen the government?

  36. 36.

    piratedan

    @Narcissus: more than likely some deranged gun nut/teabagger who insists that the government be shut down until he can buy more guns (didn’t say it had to make sense)

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    @The Red Pen: No, it’s a joke. Note that the source is ‘The Daily Currant’ (as opposed to the Daily Current, which I think is a real thing).

  43. 43.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    @The Red Pen:

    Source links to the Daily Currant, which is a satire blog. The site linked is legit I think, just duped.

  44. 44.

    TG Chicago

    Mistermix, do you know for a fact that the Park Policewoman is not currently getting a check? I would think she’d fall under ‘necessary services’, but I don’t know that.

  45. 45.

    Suffern ACE

    @Hill Dweller: If it gets to the point that Wolf Blitzer gets to take credit for saving the Republic, I’m moving to Canada.

    And no. Even during the lowest darkest days of the Bush presidency, I never thought of moving away.

  47. 47.

    max

    @Scott S.: I used to live in Lubbock, Neugebauer’s home district, and I know he wants to imagine that he can become a Teabag Hero. But honestly, I don’t think he really has it in him. He’s not all that well-liked, even in Lubbock, where everyone has him pegged as a Crooked Businessman Fellator first and everything else dead last.

    Agreed. DeLay gerrymandered the district just from him. He didn’t even get Amarillo.

    In fact:

    During the first seven years of his political career, from 2003 to February 2010, he has raised $6.4 million, most of these funds coming from the oil and gas, real estate, commercial banking and crop production/processing industries, and leadership PACs. His largest corporate and association donors have been the National Auto Dealers Association, National Association of Home Builders, Quantum Energy Partners, the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the National Association of Realtors. Outspoken against abortion during Congress’ debate on health care reform legislation, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Neugebauer has received a total of $3,000 during his career from people and committees associated with antiabortion groups.

    These real estate dudes (along with the oil company execs) are pretty much all bullshit and chutzpah.

    max
    [‘But I’m used to these assholes. That’s why I think they should be whomped every chance you get.’]

  49. 49.

    Nethead Jay

    Yeah, that’s a prime Texas Repug asshole. Not sure who’s worse, him or that Culberson “9/11 let’s roll” guy.

    OT: as I remember, mistermix, you’re knowledgeable about upper mid/west politics, what do you think of this news out of Montana: Montana Democrats get Senate candidate. Sounds okay to me, especially given current events.

  50. 50.

    Eric U.

    @shelly: changing the name is what I was proposing a couple of threads back, I mean, didn’t the dems see that naming it Obamacare would be inflammatory? Never thought of naming it Reagancare, that’s a good idea.

  51. 51.

    TG Chicago

    @The Red Pen: Also, too:

    Despite the details of “Reagancare” being identical to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, nearly two-thirds of Republicans said they supported it; with 27 percent opposed and 8 percent undecided.

  52. 52.

    Face

    Wolf Blitzer’s begging every Dem that comes on his shoe

    Whoa whoa whoa….just what kind of sick foot fetish pr0n is Blitzer doing now?

  55. 55.

    TG Chicago

    @Eric U.: The Dems named it the Affordable Care Act. Republicans came up with the name “Obamacare” to be inflammatory.

  56. 56.

    Another Botsplainer

    After all the assholishness things I’ve seen regarding the shutdown, for some reason, this pisses me off more than anything. Goddamn that fucking Texas turd.

  60. 60.

    Punchy

    ”says Todd Johnson, an unemployed civil war reenactment specialist from Huntsville, Alabama,

    Holy moley.

    #1 — he’s unemployed, so no work = no eat, right? That’s what their bumper stickers say
    #2 — people can be professional Civil War reenactment actors? That’s a full time job?

  61. 61.

    R. Porrofatto

    Neugebauer owes this woman an apology. And then he can apologize to the rest of the country.

  62. 62.

    TG Chicago

    @TG Chicago: Okay, in regard to the shooting, I’m hearing that Capitol Police aren’t getting paid today, so I guess that’s surely true for Park Police, too. Odd that Capitol Police aren’t considered necessary…

  63. 63.

    Dexter

    Apparently, Capitol police who are responding to this gunfire are also working without pay. Nice optics for Boner.

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    @TG Chicago:

    Jimmy Kimmel allegedly had a field day with this.

    Man on the street interviews with people aghast at “Obamacare” but happy there’s an “Affordable Care Act.” One woman, who does not know the difference, agrees it’s important to have well-informed American voters.

  72. 72.

    Trollhattan

    @Elizabelle:

    Yeah, so true. Know someone who went there during free admission weekend a week or two ago and had zero problem getting his choice of backcountry permits because there was hardly anybody there.

    To top the cake, it was Yosemite’s 123rd birthday on Tuesday.

  73. 73.

    karen marie

    I’d suggest that Neugebauer go back to Germany where his illegal immigrant grandparents came from. He’s the descendant of carpet baggers and anchor babies.

  76. 76.

    Eric U.

    @TG Chicago: satire is dead, dead I say

    @beltane: I thought it was the elvis impersonator? Or is that the one turned out to be the wife? Keep getting these incidents mixed up. Is ricin one of those things that you can buy from the Wingnut company store?

  78. 78.

    nemesis

    U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday that one person was injured in a shooting on Capitol Hill, CNN’s Dana Bash reports.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has dispatched units to the Capitol, following reports of shots fired near Garfield Circle, which is on the west front of the Capitol Building.

    An order was given over the Capitol speaker system to shelter in place because of an active shooter situation.

  79. 79.

    karen marie

    @kednedub: I left him a message at his Lubbock office. Inquired as to whether he wasn’t answering the phone because he’s too busy hiding under his desk so he can avoid apologizing for abusing a public servant who’s actually doing their job.

  80. 80.

    beltane

    @Eric U.: The Elvis impersonators former associate (also crazy) tried to frame him by sending the ricin letters in his name. If nothing else, the USA is truly the superpower of teh crazy.

  81. 81.

    celticdragonchick

    Holy shit. Now hearing the shooter tries to ram a gate at the White House and then fled to capitol Hill. Unclear who fired shots.

  82. 82.

    LanceThruster

    The lesson is: Our God is vengeful! O spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten! ~ Homer Simpson

  83. 83.

    Trollhattan

    @TooManyJens:

    Wow, what a mensch. Just when you think you’ve seen the bottomest of the bottom dwellers, you find it’s a false bottom and there’s at least one more below it.

  86. 86.

    celticdragonchick

    Unconfirmed reports that someone may have tried to ram a vehicle through the White House gate before the shooting.

    Ten bucks there is a tea party or Gadsden flag sticker on the vehicle.

  87. 87.

    Citizen_X

    Goddammit, she’s doing her job, but she’s not getting paid. He’s not doing his job, but he is getting paid. What’s wrong with this picture?

  91. 91.

    ? Martin

    I keep saying – Republicans always blame the people out of power – the workers, minorities, the poor. No better illustration than this.

  93. 93.

    nemesis

    Has Alex Jones reported the shooter has ties to the Weather Underground? Or is this another false flag operation to divert attention away from how Obummer is losing the Obummercare debate? Or is this an inside job designed to aid in getting guns banned? Some much potential….

    Ive already read in various comment sections that such a gunfight couldnt happen in DC, since DC is a gun-free zone. The assholes are always the first to comment on gun articles. Must be sitting in Gradmas basement refreshing their 286’s to be on top of things.

  96. 96.

    Anoniminous

    ABC reporting:

    An attempt to ran the White House gates ended with shots fired. Female suspect fled to Capitol Hill, more shots were fired and the suspect was killed.

  97. 97.

    Roger Moore

    @Trollhattan:

    Just when you think you’ve seen the bottomest of the bottom dwellers, you find it’s a false bottom and there’s at least one more below it.

    It’s turtles false bottoms all the way down.

  98. 98.

    Napoleon

    @TooManyJens:

    Shots fired on Capitol Hill. No joke. They’re on lockdown.

    And someone I work with just got an e-mail from his mom who is in one of the offices in lockdown (she was visiting).

  100. 100.

    Gus diZerega

    @Roger Moore: Thank you for deleting turtles. They are a delightful variety of animal, unlike the fetid mess that is this congressman- a person who makes normal people embarrassed to share the same genome with him.

  101. 101.

    Jockey Full of Malbec

    @The Red Pen:

    …an unemployed civil war reenactment specialist…

    Gee.

    It’s a true mystery how the South could have possibly lost the Civil War, with such genius at its disposal.

  106. 106.

    GVN

    Wondering if the President has the legal authority to declare some of the Rs who voted for shutdown as “enemy combatants”, and send them to Gitmo…

  112. 112.

    jon

    I bet there aren’t more than five Republican Congressmen who visited the WWII Memorial prior to this week.

    Probably not many Democratic Congressmen did either, but they have the sense not to be assholes in this manner.

  117. 117.

    ottercliff

    And who planted this load of poop in my pants? You should be ashamed of yourself, whoever it is.

  118. 118.

    Donald Peoples

    Typical chicken hawk: Thinks nothing of sending other folk’s kids into trumped up wars and very carefully and cowardly selects who he bullies. Gold ole’ Randy had better stay in Lubbock where his foolishness is tolerated and celebrated.

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