I hear they call the state “Misery” because of elected officials like this guy:
Why hasn’t Congress impeached President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder? Rep. Todd Akin says it’s simply a lack of votes. But he says that may change eventually…
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“I think some of the thought was, he’s coming up at this point for election and the best way to impeach him is the ballot box,” Akin said. “So I think that’s the thought, because you’re never going to get something through the Senate. That doesn’t mean that at a certain point you just say enough, I don’t care enough about the Senate, duty calls us to just get up and just impeach this guy. And maybe he’s not quite gotten to the point where you’ve got the Republicans — basically all the Republican bloc is not quite mad enough for that.”
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Still, Akin said he had plenty of relevant concerns: Obama, he said, “ignores the Constitution, he ignores the laws, he wants to impose all of the czars, he completely ignores the train wreck of the economy, which he’s causing with trillion-dollar-plus deficits every year you go along.”
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He concluded the quicker way to remove Obama from office would be to wait for the election to run its course.“He is a complete menace to our civilization,” he said. “The question is what’s the best way to get rid of him, I think probably at the ballot box next election, we need to get that done.”…
From his Wikipedia entry, Akin is the bog-standard Tea Party Talibangelical legislator — loves weapons, hates women, fervently believes that science should begin and end with the stuff he studied in his management engineering classes, and of course still making use of his Master of Divinity:
In late June 2011, Akin was discussing NBC’s recent removal of the words “under God” from a video clip of the Pledge of Allegiance. Akin told radio host Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council that:
Well, I think NBC has a long record of being very liberal, and at the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God…. This is a systematic effort to try to separate our faith and God, which is a source in our belief in individual liberties, from our country. And when you do that you tear the heart out of our country.
Two days later, Akin said in a radio interview there he would not apologize, since he meant that not all liberals hate God, only that liberals have “a hatred for public references for God.” The next day, he said:
People who know me and my family know that we take our faith and beliefs very seriously. As Christians, we would never question the sincerity of anyone’s personal relationship with God. My statement during my radio interview was directed at the political movement, Liberalism, not at any specific individual. If my statement gave a different impression, I offer my apologies.
(via Charles Pierce at Esquire)
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