Greta Van Susteren jabs Steve Stockman
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who has vowed to try to impeach President Barack Obama, said Tuesday that the president’s reported plan to use children during Wednesday’s expected gun-reform announcement reminds him of the Saddam Hussein.
Appearing on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show, Stockman — who earlier this week threatened to file articles of impeachment against Obama — said, “He’s even using children, it reminds me of Saddam Hussein when he used kids to…”
Continue ReadingCutting in, Van Susteren said: “Well, I think that’s a little bit of a stretch, but anyway, congressman, always nice to see you.”
Obama is expected to announce gun-control measures later Wednesday. The White House has said the president will be joined by children who wrote to him after the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 kids and six others were killed.
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Stockman said, “If he thinks his laws are good, then he should go through Congress. He’s not a king.”
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Read all 17 comments in our forumStockman's point is valid.
The use of the children is a calculated, Machievellian attempt to manipulate.
The use of children is simply an attempt to show a) who is being impacted by gun violence and b) who we are trying to protect. Stockman is just ****ed because he knows it has the potential of driving public opinion away from his perspective. Boo-hoo. Cry-baby.
The use of the children is a calculated, Machievellian attempt to manipulate
.Like Robmeys statements about the debt and our children having to pay it
Chalons can only see the world as the GOP tells her how !
You know what??? I am fed up with people who get elected to office from districts where the high point of their day is pulling out q toothpick to munch on.....then we give them press....This guys is stupid, mean and truly a waste of media attention. How about the media make a pact---no more morns polluting the airwaves.....I can disagree with a serious conservative and still respect their opinion....this whack job just makes my skin crawl with his ugly language and UTTER stupidity......Hey whack job--20 CHILDREN DIED. Shut up!!!!
I worry that since nuts like this horrid man are given a group of tickets to the Inaugural events. Who monitors where/to whom these tickets go? How do we know he won't give them to people who might want to harm the President? Calling his office, I was told someone would get back to me with an answer. ....... still waiting.
According to the LEFT It's OK for Zero to use kids for HIS Purposes but not OK for the NRA to use kids for their purposes.....How hypocritical is THAT!!!!
Nero Fiddles while Rome Burns......
Yes Steve, by all means go through Congress because you have so ably demonstrated your ability to act swiftly and decisively when necessary.
Show me what you got Stockman block all of the executive orders .
Block his dream act. block his pay raises block his dictating to our congress .
BLOCK HIS SO CALLED GUN CONTROL ORDERS AND IF YOU CA NOT DO THAT INTRODUCE A BILL TO DIS ARM ALL SECRET SERVICE .
GET FINESTINE FOR CARRING A GUN IN WASHINGTON AND IN GOVERMENT BUILDINGS
But the NRA's peddling of guns and games to children is not. I have to say, people like you just flat out make me sick.
I'm with you JoplinMom. I am flat out fed up with how the mainstream media panders to and mollycoddles these crazy doofuses. That little freaky conservative comforter, Erin Burnett had Tim Huelskamp on her show last night--another favorite right wing nut job that CNN likes to have on. The media seems to be infatuated with these right wing idiots.
You call that a "jab"?
Lame, Politico!
And the use of children is a calculated political ploy.
Obama is comfortable exploiting the Newtown massacre. He is shameless,but very effective, in doing whatever it takes to move his agenda.
Stockman reminds me of the south end of a northbound horse. Thanks, Texas. Secede, please!!
What kind of people elect someone like Rep. Stockman to a position of responsibility? There just had to be a better choice!
I wonder how many of those children wrote Obama on their own initiative? Or were they directed by their educators to write those letters? I would wager that less than 1% thought about writing the president entirely on their own. And, I will bet the educators gave them not only all the thoughts to write but also the words too.
In the words of that great mass murderer, "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
Joseph Stalin
As soon as politicians of any political stripe start dragging kids into the conversation you know they have sinister motives. It's the oldest tactic in the book.Bush did it with NCLB and the Iraq war. Obama is doing it today.
"According to the LEFT It's OK for Zero to use kids for HIS Purposes but not OK for the NRA to use kids for their purposes.....How hypocritical is THAT!!!! "
It isn't hypocritical at all. Nor is it hypocritical for the Left to blast the NRA for its app, but not the group who put out a video game where you can shoot at NRA executives. Remember, their cause is good.
We need to improve the quality of the political discourse in this country, and stop attacking each other with metaphors and references to violence. And the best way to do it is to vote out those racist, right wing extremists who are literally holding a gun to the head of the American people and holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to protect tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
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