Hey, Steve: Herod called, he insists Trump is more like him.
He cut the baby in half and threw it to the Congress to fight over
Steve King might want to go back and re-read the relevant passages. His recollection of the storyline appears to be less than perfect.
No King meant salmon-esque, as in fishy, dies before laying eggs.
King said, "And I didn’t want to see our [Republican caucus in] Congress divided [embarrassingly yet again].”
FIFY, Steve.
When oh when fellow Iowans can this deadbeat be gone?
Indeed. But as you know, in the Bible passage Solomon only pretended he would harm a child. Trump actually went ahead and did it. Maybe King only meant they both go in for fancy digs? He garbled the analogy to a fare-thee-well anyway:
“Well, I think that that’s a little bit of a Solomon-esque maneuver,” King said, referring to the religious parable. “He cut the baby in half and threw it to the Congress to fight over. And I didn’t want to see our Congress divided.”
And so said Solomon unto Congress, “Take unto thee each half of this baby which I have slain in twain. Let one half be for Democrats and one half for Republicans and lo! shall you fight over the halves until there are only have nots.” In this way did Solomon show his great heart to the people.
Not just garbled. He reversed it. Think about it: Why was the baby question brought to the King?
What he really said (without, I’m sure, intending it), is that Trump is the exact opposite of a King Solomon.
John Boehner, then the Republican House speaker, remarked of King: “What an asshole.”
I never thought I would feel this way, but I really miss Boehner.
I don’t think the words have been invented yet that adequately describe how bloody intellectually bereft King happens to be.
@zd123 “Current House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), despite saying just four days earlier that he didn’t think Trump should end the program, on Tuesday lauded Trump for doing exactly that.”
Given the above, can we safely assume that Boehner might characterize his successor the same way?
I read the actual parable King references and it isn’t anything like the DACA decision. King can’t even get his bible stories right. Solomon didn’t actually harm the baby, he used a threat to ascertain the identity of the real mother who he knew would never allow harm to come to her baby. It worked.
Nothing about what Trump did has anything to do with that story. Here we all know the Republicans in Congress want to harm the Dreamers, and they will proudly let this horrible decision stand.
Well the GOP is the ones who gave him the baby when you wouldn’t vote on immigration reform
I’m wit’cha Steve. From here on out when I’m not calling him El Bufon or Apricot aPParatchik or Commander-In-Cheat, it’ll be Ginsu Donald.
OT: Though the parable itself doesn’t seem all that wise to me anyway. If both women are claiming the child, it seems ridiculous to think that the false mother would go along with King Solomon’s suggestion. Based on what’s in the Bible, I’ve never really understood why Solomon is held in such regard.
According to 1 Kings 11:4 Solomon’s “wives turned his heart after other gods”, their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon’s death (1 Kings 11:9–13). 1 Kings 11 describes Solomon’s descent into idolatry, particularly his turning after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. In Deuteronomy 17:16–17, a king is commanded not to multiply horses or wives, neither greatly multiply to himself gold or silver.
OK Steve King
I completely agree with Steve King, which is something I try not to do when it comes to advocates of terrorism who openly support attacks on US Government facilities and personnel.
Donald Trump has allowed us to see who the true caretakers of the American Dream are, and who they aren’t. And Trump and the Republicans… aren’t.
I am not surprised by these comments from a man who thinks of himself as the ticket collector at a KKK cross burning.
“Well, I think that that’s a little bit of a Solomon-esque maneuver,” King said, referring to the religious parable. “He cut the baby in half and threw it to the Congress to fight over. And I didn’t want to see our Congress divided.”
Where did this guy to to Bible School? “The Church of the Chainsaw Massacre”?