Who is the DUMBEST member of this Congress?

[Joe Bacon]

There are so many to choose from. Every day brings a new utterance from at least one of these clowns. Now what could be more appropriate on May Day than to vote for the DUMBEST member of this current Congress?

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	Speaker BONER
	0 (0%)
	Allen West
	8 (35%)
	Joe Walsh
	0 (0%)
	Michelle Bachman
	7 (30%)
	Virginia Foxx
	2 (9%)
	Mike Lee
	0 (0%)
	Rand Paul
	2 (9%)
	Marcia Blackburn
	0 (0%)
	Phil Gingrey
	0 (0%)
	Oh, somebody else is even dumber than these clowns!
	4 (17%)
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[liberal N proud]

1. So many choices, and none of them are less stupid than the other.

[sadbear]

2. Louis Gohmert is pretty damned stupid.

[Joe Bacon]

3. He's in a clASS by himself!

He's too dumb to be included in this poll!

[Warpy]

18. Louie is so stupid he gives the merely dumb a bad name

so they've shunned him and put him into a separate category, completely.

For those who don't remember, he's the stupid jerk who issued an apology to BP because everybody was being so mean to them for fouling most of the Gulf coast with their blowout.

[Fawke Em]

26. I thought that was Rep. Joe Barton?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008075-503544.html

[Warpy]

40. Yeah, you're right

Oops.

[Greybnk48]

4. Ron Johnson (Moran-WI) is a VERY close second to Alan West. n/t

[Scuba]

13. Johnson is the dumbest. West is the craziest.

[Greybnk48]

15. There you go. True.

[sarge43]

5. I'm going with West

Considering a fair share of the US population doesn't even remember the Cold War, digging up the commies everywhere ghost goes beyond dumb; it's insane.

[annabanana]

6. excuse me.. Where is "Alll of the Above"? .. . . . n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

7. (d) All the above.

(Seriously, it's probably Gohmert. The others are a mix of evil and stupidity. Gohmert is the pure thing.)

[no_hypocrisy]

8. They're all specially stupid in their own particular way.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. It's hard to stand out when there are so many competitors for the title.

[NeverEnuff]

10. Dumb versus Insane

I don't know who is the dumbest. John has a pickled brain, and no one likes a crying drunk. Michele and Alan are just certifiable. Rand gets my vote. He thinks we should go back to the "whites only" days. But what can you expect from someone raised by Ron.

[byeya]

11. My Congressperson, Virginia Foxx

I've only recently moved here and haven't had the chance to vote against her yet, but she is really deeply'ignorant.
dumb/stupid: inability to learn
ignorant: lack of knowledge
She's got'em both.

[Gman]

12. Michelle Bachman

It's pretty tough competition here, but I think she's shown that she takes the crown.

[treestar]

38. +1

The crown is Michelle's. Not that she didn't have stiff competition.

[NeverEnuff]

14. All even

I think it is a 289 way tie.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. James Inhofe is mighty dumb

He may be the stupidest man in the Senate.

[newspeak]

35. yep, that's who I thought

Mr. ignoramus from oklahoma

[paulk]

17. Doug Lamborn, CO 5th district

Colorado Springs Christo-Fascist

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/doug_lamborn/412191

[backscatter712]

19. So many to choose from...

Allen West is certainly up there on the stupid scale...

But I keep changing my mind because West has so much competition!

[Johonny]

20. Look for the (R) and you probably got a winner

I'm trying to remember the last intelligent republican. I'm drawing a blank. The modern Republican that gets spoon fed soft balls on Faux is so passively stupid I have no respect for the lot of them.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. The last intelligent Republican was probably James Jeffords,

Senator from Vermont who switched sides in 2001 because he couldn't stomach the Republican Party anymore.

[Johonny]

37. Yip

so many like Jeffords have to hold there nose and vote for insanity. I have no doubt some (R) members in congress are not stupid, but if you vote for stupid long enough... does it matter if you are smart enough to know the right thing was different than what you did? I understand a bad vote once in a while, but how many times do you pretend Paul Ryan is a genius financial wizard before you lose any sense of what good financial planning is suppose to be? It feel like when I was younger there were simply more GOPers you could at least respect. Today the most public members are re-election machines that care nothing of governance and policy understand goes Heritage foundation cover letter deep.

[Art_from_Ark]

50. Back in the '60s, there were several respectable Republicans

Everett Dirksen, for example, Senator from Illinois who, for all his other faults (for example, he was a war hawk) helped Lyndon Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act. Then there was Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas (1967-71) who helped change the image of the state from a land of hillbillies and racists to one of a more progressive and tolerant people. And his brother Nelson, Governor of New York, would fit in the center or even left of today's Democratic Party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller

But as you said, "Today the most public members are re-election machines that care nothing of governance and policy understand goes Heritage Foundation cover letter deep." I think that crap started going full-throttle with the election of Reagan in 1980.

[MADem]

41. That would be Linc Chaffee--then he switched to Indy. nt

[randome]

21. Rand Paul because he LOOKS dumb.

And he can't seem to do anything right.

[MADem]

42. He has my vote. At least Michelle Bachmann knew when to quit (unlike, say, Newt?) nt

[kaiden]

22. Doug Lamborn from Colorado Springs is way STOOPID.

[mojitojoe]

23. There are roughly 535 all tied for first place.

[groundloop]

30. You're kidding, right.

Al Franken, for instance, is a world apart from the clowns listed in the poll.

[hobbit709]

24. Loonie Louie Gohmert

He's he poster boy for "Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"

[Erose999]

25. Louis Gohmert, or my own rep, Paul Broun, Jr. (GA-10).

Rep. Broun frequently cites news and statistics from right-wing conspiracy theory shithole websites like World Net Daily. He's supposed to be some kind of physician, but I've never met any of his patients and his practice is listed as his home address.

[goclark]

27. All of them should be on the list

for DUMB ~ anyone that is a Rethug in this day and this point in history needs to put their dog on top of their car and drive to Canada - then they need to STAY in Canada. They will not be missed.

[RZM]

28. Tough to say. Allen West is certainly the nuttiest, IMO

Though the single dumbest thing I can recall being said by a current member of Congress wasn't really about politics. This was Hank Johnson's infamous 'Guam tipping over' comment. He seems like a decent guy, but that wasn't his brightest moment.

[taught_me_patience]

32. The congressman from my gerrymandered district

Dana Rohrabacher. Although I see he did vote no on extending the Patriot act.

[The Second Stone]

33. Joe "You Lie" Wilson

Whose real name is Addison Graves Wilson, three rare diseases.

[Initech]

34. Rand Paul: Let's continue to glorify those that make a profit

Can't get much dumber than that - especially in this shitty economy in which we live.

[2ndAmForComputers]

36. Gotta go with Michelle "Hair That Grown On The Chin" Bachmann.

[NNN0LHI]

39. This poll needed an "All of the above", option

[Daniel537]

43. Bachmann. The batshit is strong with her. n/t

[demtenjeep]

44. all of them?

hard to pick just one

[JI7]

45. Gohmert

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Don Young's got his moments,

but he does it old school. He probably doesn't have much patience with those young whippersnapper idiots.

[LadyHawkAZ]

47. The whole (R) Congress is the Lay's Potato Chip kinda stupid

You can't have just one.

[guitar man]

48. Inhofe

Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down..... doesn't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his ass

[TheKentuckian]

49. You can't even have the contest without Gohmert and Foxx

Though that guy from Georgia (younger for Congress, maybe in his forties) is a champion of duh as well.

[Mc Mike]

51. Poll makes me miss the Top 10 Conservative Idiots section of DU.