Who is the dumbest member of Congress?

[Wetzelbill]

I don't mean somebody who says dumb partisan things, but I mean who is actually pretty stupid. For example, Tom DeLay says some pretty dumb stuff, but I wouldn't say he is stupid, by any means.

I have heard that Susan Collins isn't too sharp, but I never heard her speak much nor do I pay much attention to her. I heard John Warner isn't the brightest bulb either, but again, I don't pay much attention to the guy.

Arizona Rep. JD Hayworth seems pretty dumb to me. I read a few of his op-eds in Indian Country, a couple constituent letters and plus seen him quoted a few times here and there, as well as heard a few sound bites of his on local news. He's a typical Bush type guy, not much brains, but a lot of willingness to sell out and a lot of people around him to hold his hand so he doesn't seem as dumb as he really is.

Another AZ Rep. John Shadegg has said a few of the dumbest things I have ever heard before. Once he compared Bill Clinton to Hitler, because he saved a lot of land by making them part of National Parks and not subject to mining, forestry and oil drilling. He also said that Justin Timberlake was helping the terrorists because of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction thing. However, he may not be dumb, he just says dumb things.

George Allen is an idiot. He might get my vote. Him or Hayworth. But there has to be others out there that are worse.

[KarenS]

1. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) hands down!! n/t

[elehhhhna]

2. TX own Kay 'Brainy' Huchison !

[NoPasaran]

25. Hutch is a Rhodes scholar compared to Cornyn

[Canuckistanian]

3. Some have mentioned Inhofe or Coleman

Bartcop cetainly gives his vote to Inhofe.

[cpamomfromtexas]

57. My brother saw Inhofe drunk as a skunk one night at the airport

In Tulsa! They couldn't even talk to him, he was passed out!

[Ioo]

4. Ricky Man on Dog!

[samdogmom]

5. I vote for George Allen (R) VA--n/t.

[rurallib]

13. Agreed - from what I have heard he is dumb as a post

makes W llok like a genius. Which is why I think he will be the pick to replace Cheney.

[liberalitch]

50. Here, here, BUT.... when I took my kids to the Governor's....

school orientation..... he was SOOOOOOOOOO nice to them.

But I sure hope mark warner takes his seat

[butterfly77]

67. I agree..

and they are trying to run him for president

[CTD]

6. Tough one. There are so many. In both parties.

It's difficult to pick the "dumbest".

[0007]

7. Dead heat for Jeff Sessions & John Cornyn, bar none!

Kay Bailey Hutchinson hovers right at the top of the list.

Jeff Sessions missed his calling, he should be doing the voice overs for Rocky Squirrel.

[quaoar]

10. Sessions get at least an honorable mention

As does his former aide and now congressman representing Mobile, Jo Bonner.

[sendero]

36. That's Rocket J. Squirrel...

... sir :)

[Itchinjim]

8. Coleman is a friggin' moran.

Just a friggin' moran.

[Wetzelbill]

17. I'll never forget the look on his face when Galloway tore him a new one

He looked like somebody just peed in his Cheerios. He finally gathered himself to respond to that beating just yesterday I think. Boy, he came off dumber than a box of rocks. Just being an American I wanted the guy to at least say something back. Ouch.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Mary Bono

Does anyone remember her performance during the Clinton impeachment hearings?

She should just go back to teaching aerobics or yoga or whateverthefuck she did before Sonny met that tree.

But I can also go along with George Allen. Or Norm Coleman.

The southern sentaorial embarassments (Inhoff, Sessions, Coburn et al) are merely nutjobs, not inherently stupid.

[Wetzelbill]

12. yeah Coburn doesn't strike me as being dumb at all

Just pretty far-right nutjob-ish.

[truebrit71]

43. She's as dumb as a bag of hammers....

..

[adigal]

11. George Allen is an incredibly dumb senator

Remember he said something on Meet the Press about old people enjoying living in their homes because they will have to sell them someday - this, in arguing for destroying the Social Security program.

I think he will be the next republican nominee for president - one dumb governor following another.

[Wetzelbill]

14. I think he will too

Republicans have a thing for dumb guys who like to pretend they are cowboys but couldn't actually lead a stick horse to water.

[abluelady]

16. We can't let that happen

Maybe we need to "rig" the diebold machines, but George Allen as president would be the true end of America. George Bush has almost completed the task but we still have a chance but not if George Allen gets in.

[dogtag]

19. In addition to being just incredibly stupid,

he never removes that annoying shit eating grin. There must be a GOP charm school somewhere that instructs prospective repuke candidates on speaking inanities while continuously smiling......probably owned by the former Majority Leader from Texas.

[LibDemAlways]

26. I think he was trying to make a case that

older people can sell their homes and live off the proceeds. The home his mother still lives in in Palos Verdes Estates, CA is worth millions. He's such a moron he assumes all elderly people have those kind of nest eggs to fall back on.

Completely not grounded in reality and a phony Southerner, fake cowboy, and racist to the bone -- true GOP Presidential material.

[Arkana]

15. I vote Rick Santorum

but I'm not as well acquainted with all 400-some odd members of the House, so there could be someone dumber there.

[Wetzelbill]

18. one of the finest minds of the 13th century nt

[carolinayellowdog]

20. Santorum and Murray according to a Senate staff survey

This was in the last Congress so doesn't include the class of '04 nor any Congresspersons, just Senators.

[AntiCoup2K4]

45. Murray has certainly been voting dumb lately.

She even sided with the DLC on a couple things where even Cantwell knew better :(

[AntiCoup2K4]

46. Who's the congressman from Florida with the hyphenated name?

Cuban guy, I believe. Extremely right wing and prone to say really stupid shit. Diaz-Ballard or something like that.....

[0007]

54. Lincoln Diaz-Ballard is right wing asshole that speaks from his

ass.

[afdip]

21. don't sell jim demint (r-sc) short . . . .he can out dumb

your guys.

[Wetzelbill]

24. oh, good one

[Geoff R. Casavant]

22. So many nominations

but how are we to decide? I would love it if everyone who is posting could post an example of the subject's stupidity -- it will provide hours of good laughter.

[DancingBear]

23. George Allen - hands down

Reason #!:

Limbaugh thinks he would make a wonderful candidate for President.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

30. I'd like to submit Jim Bunning, R-KY for consideration.

This yahoo had been beaned in the head too many times by baseballs to make a whole lot of sense.

When he ran for re-election last year he demanded the Secret Service give him special protection because he was sure that Al Queda was after him personally. Really.

Bunning agreed to debate his Democratic opponent and at the last minute refused to meet face to face (that "security" thing again) and went to the RNC Headquarters in DC and "debated" by teleconference with Democrat Daniel Mongiardo back in Kentucky at the previously planned location. What he didn't bother to tell anyone at the time was that he was getting help with his answers from staffers off camera and cue cards. Throughout the entire debate he was completely lost, mumbled and didn't answer the questions. You can't make this stuff up.

Finally, after seeing his huge lead in the polls evaporate Bunning pulled out the homosexual card and accused Mongiardo of being gay because he was too well dressed and not married. Also, compared Mongiardo's dark-complexioned to one of Saddam Hussein's sons. And it worked with all of them god-fearing christians in the bible belt.

Bunning's behavior throughout the campaign was over the top with rumors floating that he was suffering from Alzheimer's. McConnell orchestrated the entire campaign and I don't expect Bunning to last the entire six years. Prediction - Bunning will retire and be replaced before Fletcher runs for re-election. Fletcher is, also, morally and ethically challenged and has his own problems, but will ensure they get a "good" repug in the seat before being ousted out of office.

Bunning is stupid, clueless and adrift in a fog. The most dangerous kind of repug.

[Wetzelbill]

31. I heard he's not all there

So I always wondered if he was just stupid or had become senile or was just plain crazy.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

33. I'd vote all of the above. Never a mental heavyweight he is

crazy (paranoia will destroy ya) and suffers from Alzheimer's. A lethal combination when you are a US Senator.

[Wetzelbill]

34. lethal for a US Senator, perfect for a Republican voter

:)

[JPZenger]

27. Santorum Sanitarium Scumtorum

Santorum - This is the guy who was OUTRAGED that the "activist courts" said it was unconstitional to charge two consenting adults with a felony for engaging in gay sex behind closed doors.

[afdip]

48. you forgot "scrot-orum"

[peekaloo]

28. Duke Cunningham from CA.

Did he resign yet?

[Wetzelbill]

32. no but I heard that he isn't running for reelection

what a shame. :)

[dogman]

29. J. Dennis Hastert former high school history teacher.

Failed to learn the lessons of history and takes direction from Cheney and DeLay.

[JPZenger]

37. Remember when Jon Stewart...

Remember when the Daily Show showed a side view of Hastert, and Jon Stewart said: "He looks like he just ate Ebert."

[liberalitch]

52. But primarily the wras-lin' coach

[terrya]

35. United States Senator Tom Coburn R-Ok

Breathtakingly ignorant on oh, so, so, so, so, so, so, so many things.

[joanski0]

38. That's easy. Elizabeth Dole!!! n/t

.

[NoPasaran]

39. Don't count out Henry Bonilla (TX-23)

I've eaten sandwiches with higher IQs.

Of course, trying to pick the dumbest member of the Texas Legislature: that would be a real battle of halfwits!

[IndianaGreen]

40. Norm Coleman

who, after George Galloway ripped him a new asshole, was still smiling not realizing that he had been fucked.

[No Exit]

41. Spencer Bachus of Alabama. n/t

[1932]

42. Snatorum got in a fight with a Cahtolic priest in his office

He told the priest that he had no business telling Santorum that the policies he supported were immoral, or something like that.

I read about that somewhere on the net. I think the priest wrote about it aftwards.

[JI7]

44. George Allen easily

Jim DeMint is an idiot also but he is new so we haven't seen much of him. but from what i know he may provide Allen some competition for being dumbest.

[LSK]

47. Jeff Sessions, R Sen Alabama

[rsdsharp]

49. Steve King of Iowa

Virtually of his talking points are regurgitated Limbaugh. Last month he said that McCarthy was a great American, for God's sake..

[Chicago Democrat]

51. Rahm Emmanuel (Il-5th) For attacking fellow Democratic candidates

just to preserve his narrow me-too DLC position. As DCCC chair he is working for the other side as far as I can tell. He's has done a terrible disservice and violated rule #1!!! NEVER ATTACK A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WHO GOT 44% versus AN INCUMBENT LAST YEAR!

1) Attacks destroyed 600 volunteers morale in the middle of getting signatures!

2) Destroying fund raising potential, hey Rahm, FUND RAISING IS WHAT THE FUCKING Democratic Congressioanal Campaign Commmittee IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING! Why haven't YOU had 2000 dollar a head breakfast for Christine??!!!

Tom Delay had one for her opponent, Roskam. Who is a whore. But I forgot you like whores!


Rahm Emmanual is a fucking DLC, Liberman boot licker.

[Supersedeas]

53. Liddy Dole

[triguy46]

55. A tie: Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe.

Coburn for whining about the showing of Schindler's list because of its 'titillating' images of 70 year old women shivering naked in the snow among so many others. Inhofe because he's such a dick.

[Ediacara]

56. Conrad Burns

He's a senile old racist, he's up to his eyeballs in Abramoff, and he sponsered the wild horse meat to France bill..

[Wetzelbill]

60. ahh good ol' Con Job

he's a dandy that's for sure.

[Hokie]

58. Jim Bunning - KY

During the election last year he would only debate if he could be on closed circuit TV from Repuke HQ where they could feed him answers with cue cards. He is a moron extrordinaire.

[GRLMGC]

59. George Allen

Wow, oh wow! That guy is total DUMBASS status! Liddy Dole is pretty stupid too

[Zynx]

61. Jim Bunning is one stupid SOB.

[txaslftist]

62. Randy Neugebauer, from Texas.

Hasn't had an original thought in years, voted with DeLay 94% of the time and basically exists on the crumbs Delay throws him.

[leesa]

63. Duncan Hunter, "lemon chicken with pilaf and TWO fruits"

[Mutley]

64. Hey Bill!

Haven't seen you in awhile. How are things going?

[Doctor_J]

65. I'm with you

Allen and Heyworth are as stupid as *. Heyworth is proud of his stupidity, Allen is unaware of his.

[butterfly77]

66. norm the dufuss Coleman