Twitter troll and Texas congressman Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has been all over Twitter lately scolding the administration for allegedly violations of the law in both the Bergdahl case and something to do with Hamas. But then the following news came down the other day...
It sounds like Team Stockman tried run a campaign in which they raised as much money as they could while spending as little as possible. Traveling to statewide events in Texas costs money. Having a campaign headquarters that doesn't look like Buffalo Bill's creepy dungeon in "Silence of the Lambs" also costs money.
A few weeks ago, after Stockman denied up and down that he was never arrested for smuggling Valium in his underpants, the Texas Tribune dug up Stockman's arrest record and creepy mug shot. And now, Stockman has threatened to file charges against anyone who publishes the mug shot.
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has been caught up in a fracas over whether he was arrested in 1977 for concealing a controlled substance, Valium, in his underpants. Apologies for having to endure the mental image of Stockman's underpants, but it's part of this insane tale, like it or not.
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. Stockman is a member of the tea party caucus in the House, but it turns out that the tea party doesn't like him very much. In a straw poll held by the Ellis County, Texas Tea Party, here's how many votes Stockman received...
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 20-something girl cable-tied to a drain pipe.
Given America's thriving gun culture it'd be naive to think that firearm sales in general would decline after a gut-wrenching tragedy like Sandy Hook. However, following the slaughter of 20 children by a madman brandishing an AR-15, you'd think fewer Americans would want to be associated with it -- not more, and by the tens of thousands.
We begin with the new Stockman for Senate website on which the candidate posted what can only be described as an anti-Cornyn fundraising manifesto -- practically a laundry list of incoherent demands, with each sentence as its own standalone thought, not unlike his wacky Twitter feed. In it, Stockman uses the phrase "liberal John Cornyn" 21 times, not including an additional four appearances of the phrase in Stockman's Twitter side-bar widget.
Everyone's least favorite irritant, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has announced that he'll be primary-challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) next year. In case you're unfamiliar with Stockman, he's the first-term congressman who basically took over Ron Paul's old district and has since spent the first half of his term as a Twitter troll.
The man, Monty Wheeler of Russellville, was carrying a loaded shotgun in the car -- you know, to defend himself in the Thunderdome that is the Russellville Walmart parking lot. As the child was awkwardly climbing into the car, he evidently grabbed the shotgun, which discharged, shooting Wheeler in the back.
Palin and Cruz don't want you to remember that Interior is one of several cabinet level departments the tea party would eliminate. And if you eliminate Interior, you eliminate the National Park Service.
New poll numbers from NBC/WSJ indicate that Obamacare is significantly more popular than the congressional Republicans who trying to de-fund and repeal it. The dissatisfaction with, and outright hatred of Obamacare has little to do with the law itself. It has everything to do with the president who proposed it and who shepherded it through Congress.
I've read and studied the Constitution and I don't recall where FEMA is enumerated as an Article II executive branch power. Also, I don't live in Texas, so why should my tax dollars be, you know, redistributed via FEMA to help Stockman's home state? Texas should reject all federal assistance because, after all, the states can handle it, can't they?
Indeed, the shutdown has turned our collective attention directly to the self-beclowning instigators behind the shutdown, further exposing the fact that this particular litter of congressmembers are not only terrible at conducting political theater, but they're truly despicable human beings -- especially knowing that they're all members of an exclusive club intended to be populated with 535 of America's best and brightest.
A sitting member of Congress, along with the right-wing press and many other congressional Republicans, flagrantly lied about the cost of Obamacare. The only way they can survive is to continue to lie and hope that their voters are too moronic and uneducated to realize it.
The very notion of an elected member of Congress even joking about the concept of children using firearms to kill other people is offensive almost beyond description -- even more so considering how, in the weeks since Stockman's original tweet, numerous "babies with guns" have used guns to kill or wound themselves or the children and adults around them.
Stockman's Twitter feed might be an elaborate meta-joke carried on by an Onion-style comedy troupe seeking to undermine a Republican congressman by making him sound like an unbalanced, self-satirical freakdog. The second thing that popped into my head wasn't quite as fun to think about. It turns out that any random perusal of the news will produce countless reports about babies with guns.