Democrats are in the majority now. Can’t they censure King for conduct unbecoming of a House member?
A democracy, the voters who believe America is the land of the free, a land that respects individuals, respects equality and justice,*** should not have a congressman who articulates those kinds of sentiments.”
*And then there’s Iowa.
Join the crowd, Steny. King is a real 1939 throwback.
It is very hard to be surprised by a known racist’s statements, merely because you already know the induhvidual is a racist pig. Nobody was surprised by Hitler’s racist statements.
However, it is not at all difficult to be OUTRAGED whenever a racist opens his filthy mouth.
“I am not surprised because, after all, my head has not been run over by a steamroller like a character in a Looney Tune.”
My dream headline:
Steve King Caught In Motel Room With Undocumented Immigrant Transgendered Guatemalan Hooker Who Has Calves The Size of Cantaloupes.
When asked about this shocking scandal, Rep. King (R - Cornholio) replied, “Well, you know what they say about guys with big calves!”
A better response would have been: “I’m not surprised by his comments. Steve King is a racist, white supremacist.”
Of course not. Keep it around and use him as the example of the typical GOP politician.
Racist is as racist does!
No one should be surprised at either King’s comments or the unwillingness of anyone in the Republican party to issue more than the mildest rebuke (and only then if they represent a potential swing district or state). The Southern Strategy was not an anomaly or a one-off; this is who the Republicans are: if they are not outright racists themselves they are quite willing to work with them. They are only embarrassed when the rhetoric gets a little too explicit, not quite ‘abstract’ enough as Lee Atwater would say.
Or as Roy Edroso once posted viz
These guys can always work together, because they all came out of the same Big Bang of hatred for the New Deal and its legacy: Big Government and the coalition that sustains it – blacks, gays, unionized workers, women, et alia. Each conservative tribe has its own relationship to that legacy – some of them (the more intelligent ones, generally) are deeply cynical, and some are as sincere as any schizophrenic street preacher. But all of them deeply hate that a bunch of minorities have coalesced to get something that they think belongs by right to them and people like them, and many of them have learned that it would be more effective (and, these days, more popular) to strike at the state that enables that coalition than at the minorities themselves. [emphasis not in original]
Hey Iowa,
My panhandle’s got your back.
Sincerely,
Florida
For King to pretend he does not understand the implications of his racist diatribe is nearly as bad as his supporters voting him in every 2 years.
Or, even better, “I’m not surprised. The Republican party chose a white supremacist as their presidential candidate and voted for him after he ran on a white supremacist platform. The Republican administration has appointed white supremacists to key government positions and supported those appointees. The Republican party is utterly broken and has completely lost touch with American values. So yeah, I’m not surprised by this.”