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CatWoman

(79,301 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 11:00 PM Dec 2013

Texas Congressman's Obama Barfbag

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is raising money for his Senate campaign by giving out "Obama barfbags."

For only a $10 donation to Stockman's primary campaign against incumbent Senator John Cornyn, you can get a chartreuse barfbag with a picture of President Obama and the tagline "socialism makes me sick." For those concerned about its authenticity, it is labeled "The Official Obama Barf Bag!". Stockman is running as a right wing, tea party challenge to Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate, who he had derided as a liberal and "Harry Reid's Republican."

In an accompanying fundraising letter, Stockman says he and others could use the barfbag because "Obama’s job-killing, freedom-stealing socialism makes me sick to my stomach. And it makes me sick with anger when I see him shredding the Constitution, exploding our debt, bowing down to foreign dictators and plunging this country into European socialism!"

Stockman didn't just attack Obama in the email. He also attacked what he called "quisling Republicans" currently in the Senate. In contrast to those quislings, Stockman pledged to be one of the "take-no-prisoners, right wing leaders who will rip apart, tear out and blow up everything Obama has touched."



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/17/texas-congressman-s-obama-barfbag.html

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BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
1. Does that "R" by Rep. Steve Stockman's name mean "Ridiculous"
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 11:08 PM
Dec 2013

His actions make a 6 year old seem Mature.

CatWoman

(79,301 posts)
2. you know, I was fighting with myself as to whether I should post this
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 11:10 PM
Dec 2013

my thing is, the more the idiotic eruptions be known, the better.

This man is fucking filth, and his actions need to be reported on far and wide.

what a complete fucking idiot.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
8. Oh...I love to hear about them. In fact, we should take pictures and spread their stories....
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 12:54 AM
Dec 2013

...far and wide. That way, anybody with even a HUGE inferiority complex could say:
"Well, at least I'm better than that piece of shit!"

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
3. Even Louie Gohmert refuses to endorse Stockman
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 11:13 PM
Dec 2013

so his reelection in Texas is all but guaranteed, although it didn't give him a lot of traction in his primary bid against Cornyn.

ETA: This is Stockman's re election office, where his staffers lived and worked so he could get more work out of them.





And much, much more squalor at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/pictures-from-inside-steve-stockman-s-condemned-campaign-office

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
9. LOL!...Sweet Jesus...The bottom of the toilet is about to cave in to a sinkhole or something. damn.
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 01:00 AM
Dec 2013

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
7. I actively hated and still do hate Bush
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 12:22 AM
Dec 2013

And I'm sure a lot of democrats in the House and Senate did too, but were any of them crass enough to do something like this or even remotely close to this?

TlalocW

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