Wacky Wingnut Open Thread
Posted: January 15, 2013 Filed under: open thread, Republican politics, U.S. Politics | Tags: gun control, gun nuts, Texas legislature, wingnuts 32 CommentsOctogenarian wingnut and former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese (who even knew he was still alive?) has weighed in on Tea Party nutball threats to impeach President Obama if he uses executive orders to regulate gun sales. TPM reports:
Former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese, now a prominent emeritus official at the Heritage Foundation, became the latest conservative to warn that President Obama could risk impeachment if he takes executive action on reducing gun violence in an interview Monday night.
Speaking with Newsmax, Meese said Congress may have to consider impeaching Obama if he were “to try to override the Second Amendment in any way” with an executive order. He did allow that there are some executive actions related to guns that Obama could take wouldn’t be impeachable.
“It would be up to the Congress to take action, such as looking in to it to see if, in fact, he has really tried to override the Constitution itself,” Meese told Newsmax. “In which case, it would be up to them to determine what action they should take — and perhaps even to the point of impeachment.”
In Texas, state rep. Steve Toth is preparing a bill that would make it a felony for any federal official to attempt to enforce gun restrictions in the Lone Star State.
A Texas lawmaker says he plans to file the Firearms Protection Act, which would make any federal laws that may be passed by Congress or imposed by Presidential order which would ban or restrict ownership of semi-automatic firearms or limit the size of gun magazines illegal in the state, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Republican Rep. Steve Toth says his measure also calls for felony criminal charges to be filed against any federal official who tries to enforce the rule in the state.
“If a federal official comes into the state of Texas to enforce the federal executive order, that person is subject to criminal prosecution,” Toth told 1200 WOAI’s Joe Pags Tuesday. He says his bill would make attempting to enforce a federal gun ban in Texas punishable by a $50,000 fine and up to five years in prison.
Toth “would welcome” legal challenges to the proposed new law.
“At some point there needs to be a showdown between the states and the federal government over the Supremacy Clause,” he said.
The Supremacy Clause is the portion of the Constitution which declares that federal laws and statutes are ‘the supreme law of the land.’
“It is our responsibility to push back when those laws are infringed by King Obama,” Toth said.
Let me get this straight. The Supremacy Clause, which is part of the U.S. Constitution, should be challenged if any branch of the Federal Government tries to limit Texans’ access to artillery of any kind? WTF?!
What’s your favorite wacky wingnut story of the day? This is an open thread!
And then there are the blatantly racist wingnuts:
Why can’t these people just shut up? Just now reading this post BB, thanks for doing it!
House passes Sandy relief bill over wingnut objections.
At least they passed it. Wingnuts be damned.
They can pass the debt ceiling the same way, if Boehner lets it come to a vote. His excuse for not doing that is a promise to not break the Hastert thing again but he just did it here.
Yup. If the wingnuts crash the economy, it will be because Boehner enables them.
ROFLMAO!!! Best line of the day.
Are we certain it is not some evil apparition? 🙂
Zombie apocalypse?
His body is definitely alive, his thinking ability – not so much.
Apparently The Atlantic can be embarrassed … Updated
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2013/01/14/we-are-thetans-in-the-material-world/
http://www.itep.org/pdf/LATaxSwapAnalysis.pdf
There needs to be a commission formed to figure out how to defuse Bobby Jindal.
Has anyone looked into his private life? While I deplore that sort of thing, sometimes it does come in handy – oh wait Vitter still gets elected. Forget I mentioned it.
Well, we know that he performed an exorcism on an unwilling young woman. That should be enough to disqualify him, but so far it hasn’t.
I’m voting for large gators in the back of an obscure bayou … we can see how well he does with his own kind
Actually I think Gators probably have more integrity than your governor. They would probably joyfully ingest him, then suffer terminal indigestion. As an animal rights supporter, I object.
Gators have a thing for rotten stinky meat …. i dunno he might have the right stuff … he is undoubtedly meaner than one
I’ve made an executive decision. The wingnut of the day is Village idiot Dana Millbank.
But does he really mean what he is saying? We’ve seen him cave multiple times before. Will he stay the course?
BTW Dana Millbank should suck eggs. The condecension in that article is deplorable. Whether one agrees or not, he is the President and should be afforded a modicum of respect. JMHO of course, but that article is deplorable.
If you missed Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night, please be sure to watch his explanation (in a Southie accent) of why Scott Brown may decide not to run for the Senate again.
Pierce on David Brooks’ “Humility” course at Yale.
That was funny.
I am gonna go with Steve Stockman, the biggest wingnut rag of the day. I am reminded of Molly Ivins who said “paranoia is a national disease.” She understood Texas back then, as we understand it today. And to go with, the movie “Cool Hand Luke,”
WHAT WE GOT HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
Steve Stockman gets the nod from me for today. Hard to be wingnuttier.
GOP Congressman Warns That Library Books About Muslim Culture Will Undermine Christianity
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1452861/walter-jones-muslim-books/
“What’s your favorite wacky wingnut story of the day?”
As another wingnut would say, I like all of ’em.
States Rights, Sheriffs Rights. All Good.
Apparently if you’re a gun nut you can just spout off whatever bullshit pops into your head and people are supposed to think you’re standing up for FREEDUMB!
Obviously sheriffs are the 4th branch of government and get to super double dog correct the courts
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Jon Chait is really on in this piece.
NYMag: Bush Speechwriter Michael Gerson Exposes Obama’s Sinister Being-Reasonable Ploy