Twitter troll and Texas congressman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has been all over Twitter lately scolding the administration for allegedly violating the law in both the freeing of Bowe Bergdahl and something to do with Hamas. But then this news came down the other day: Rep. ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Last night, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) lost his primary campaign against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in catastrophic fashion. Stockman only accumulated 19 percent of the vote to Cornyn's 58 percent (as of this writing). We knew this would happen from the beginning, especially after ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

The degree of insanity on public display by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) never ceases to amaze and delight. It's really become a capivating spectator sport to observe -- that is, until we recall the sobering reality that this crackpot/trainwreck gets a vote in the U.S. Congress. ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

We've been following the bizarre political career of Twitter troll and paleoconservative tea party congressman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) for sometime now, and ever since declaring his intention to run against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Republican senatorial primary, the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

You might recall how Twitter troll Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in this year's Republican primary in Texas. You might also recall how Stockman is polling at just six percent against Cornyn, who Stockman refers to as "Liberal John Cornyn" ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Talking Points Memo's Eric Lach got his hands on exclusive photos inside Rep. Steve Stockman's (R-TX) condemned Webster, Texas campaign office and, yeah, it looks like it's from a real-life Rob Zombie horror movie. As I scrolled through I half-expected the photo to show a ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In the aftermath of 9/11, imagine if various American Muslim organizations held contests in which the grand prizes were box cutters, the tool-turned-weapon used by terrorist hijackers aboard those four doomed flights. Now imagine if a U.S. congressman held not one but two ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

There's really not much of a chance that Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), the internet troll who wastes his taxpayer-funded congressional salary by spending all day tweeting far-right zingers, will ever defeat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the forthcoming Texas senate primary. But ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

This is easily the best news of the month so far. Everyone's least favorite irritant, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has announced that he's primary-challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) next year. In case you're unfamiliar with Stockman, he's the first-term congressman who basically ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

You might recall Rep. Steve Stockman's (R-TX) tasteless bumper sticker suggesting that there'd be fewer abortions in the U.S. if babies were armed. If Stockman were capable of reading a newspaper, he'd realize that, yes, there are way too many armed babies who have shot their ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

The tea party put on quite a show on Sunday. Billed as the "Million Veterans March," roughly 300 people turned out to hear Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) deliver brief remarks about "the Obama shutdown," followed by a ceremonial gathering of government barricades from ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

It's no secret that the most loathsome character in the extraordinarily loathsome U.S. House of Representatives is Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX). In case you're not aware of Stockman, he's the first term congressman from Ron Paul's former district in Texas who invited Ted Nugent ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In the months following the gun massacre at Sandy Hook, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) went on a rampage against the president for daring to enact new gun regulations through a series of executive orders. Stockman, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), introduced the "Restore the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

As we enter day four of the government shutdown and its accompanying clown show, there appears to be a flicker of light inside the increasingly dark tantrum tunnel. The New York Timeslearned last night that Speaker John Boehner announced to his colleagues in a closed-door ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Here's a scandal no one's really talking about in the press or elsewhere for that matter. Republican members of Congress, as well as conservatives across the internet, are engaged in a group lie about the cost of Obamacare. Correction -- it's either a group lie or group ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Rewind a few weeks and you might recall how a certified sociopath and right-wing bumper sticker author named Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) delighted in the creation of the following tweet: "If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted." He loved it so much that he turned it into a ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

To paraphrase a line from the 1989 Batman movie: I've found a name for my pain, and it is Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX). Until this past weekend, I was only mildly aware of this unit, but now that I'm fully introduced to his brand of politics and off-the-rails wingnuttery, I can ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018