Rep. Steve King's astonishing cruelty apparently knows no bounds. The notoriously heartless Iowa congressman told the Examiner that he would find extra money for Trump's ludicrous border wall by denying vulnerable women health care and starving poor children to death. And no, ...read more
Over the last few days Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has been the target of bipartisan condemnation after he made a series of incredibly racist comments. First, the congressman argued "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." His argument was that caucasians ...read more
For eight years, America's women have been safely ensconced (on a federal level at least) in a cocoon created by President Obama and his tireless support for women's rights, but that is all about to end. In six very short days, anti-choice extremists will finally have what they ...read more
Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) has a long history of saying incredibly offensive things. He once said that for every immigrant who is a valedictorian, there are a hundred more who have "calves the size of cantaloupes" because they carry drugs across the desert. He has also ...read more
It has always been my personal policy to do my best to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, even on a substantive basis, for at least a day or two following an untimely death, and if possible, to find something nice to say. In Justice Scalia's case, I recounted my lone meeting ...read more
Donald Trump may just have won Iowa with his debate performance Thursday night. The debate moment that everyone's talking about got an unexpected, if contradictory, bit of analysis from a very prominent Ted Cruz backer from the first caucus state. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was ...read more
Like Louie Gohmert, here's another sitting member of the U.S. Congress: I had a strong, Christian lawyer tell me yesterday that, under this decision that he has read, what it brings about is: It only requires one human being in this relationship—that you could marry your your ...read more
Over the years, Republicans have made an art of poorly-coded ways to be racist, from Ronald Reagan's "strapping young bucks" to Paul Ryan's "inner-city culture," but Rep. Steve King (R-IA) may have just become the Michelangelo of the form. In an interview with Newsmax, King came ...read more
You can throw another shrimp on the barbie, and by "shrimp" I mean Republican, and by barbie, I mean the cordwood stack of rabid impeachment-mongers that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says are made up of all Democrats. The Speaker of the House isn't the only delusional ...read more
Not that the Democrats need the help after the House of Representatives made an ostentatious display of passing their Fuck the Hispanic Vote bills last week, but Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) did their part for the Dems by producing some great campaign ...read more
You might remember Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from his starring role in our Impeachment Supercut last week, but the anti-immigrant calf fetishist went all Electric Boogaloo this weekend, once again threatening to impeach President Obama over the possibility of executive action on ...read more
"I think President Obama is baiting Republicans with impeachment, so that he could set the stage to actually do something worthy of impeachment." -- Fox News's Andrea Tantaros on Outnumbered this afternoon It's always entertaining when Andrea Tantaros tries to think, sort of ...read more
Iowa Republicans are in the news for all the wrong reasons right now. That would include Republican Rep. Steve King, who on CNN's New Day on Wednesday said something so bizarre, it's literally unbelievable that host Chris Cuomo didn't ask him just what the hell it was that he ...read more
On Friday, the White House snatched the Republicans' impeachment claw hammer away from them and started beating the shit out of them with it, which caused House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), on Tuesday morning, to wonder where anyone ever got the idea that Republicans want to ...read more
Last week, Bill Maher told the New York Times that his show will attempt to oust a sitting member of Congress. Moreover, he will ask his viewers to help him select the congressperson that is both terrible enough and in a competitive enough race to get the bullseye put on their ...read more
The holiday season is officially over and that means that if you have a job there's a pretty good chance you're back at it today. Here's what's going on in the world as well as some other assorted reading material to soften the blow. 1. I'm With Against Stupid Grab the popcorn. ...read more
In South Carolina on Monday, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) called on the unemployed to "step up" and get themselves into the work force. Telling an audience in Charleston that those without jobs are kept unproductive by Obama because "we have become a dependency state," King ...read more
Republican strategist, Ana Navarro slammed Congressman Steve King (R-IA) this morning on Meet the Press over his stance on immigration and wanton racism. It's nice to see people from his own side do that. She said: "Well, first of all, I think Congressman King should go get ...read more
The Supreme Court may or may not be ready to endorse same sex marriage but the country is. This week, Senator Lisa Murkowski joined fellow GOP Senators Mark Kirk and Rob Portman and expressed her support for same sex marriage. I have organized a comedy fundraiser to benefit ...read more
The Republican Congressman from Iowa tweeted this: The House passed a King amendment to nullify President Obama'sExecutive Order that has stopped the deportation undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children. He also opposes the Senate's bill and blames it all on ...read more
Step aside, Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann. I believe we have no choice but to crown the new chairperson of the House of Representatives' Crazy Caucus. Incidentally, the crown is more like the creepy wire mask worn by Hannibal Lecter. You know, to prevent spitting and ...read more
