No Joke or Exaggeration-Rangel's Replacement Pete Stark is a Raving Lunatic

The Lid/Various ^ | 3/3/2010 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

File this under, be careful what you wish for. As expected Charlie Rangel temporarily stepped down from the Chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee this morning. His replacement Pete Stark who is just a few fries short of a happy meal. The Hill's description is a bit more gentle.

The 19-term Democrat has a penchant for making controversial remarks, and when Republicans controlled the House, Stark challenged then Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) to a fight during a Ways and Means Committee hearing

Truth is this guy is CRAZY, he has thin-skin and is constantly exploding publicly into racial epitaphs, strange allegories, or every cuss word you can imagine.

[South40]

No Joke or Exaggeration-Rangel's Replacement Pete Stark is a Raving Lunatic

And Rangel wasn't?

[blondee123]

This is good news, let the crazies be exposed more & more!

[Joann37]

I think this is great! A far left atheist is perfect to campaign against!

If some “moderate”(if there is such a thing w/the dems) had gotten that job, there’d be nothing to work with. But if this guy is as crazy as he sounds, he’ll be the “picture” of the dem party, and will hopefully lead to more Republican wins in November.

[beckysueb]

So no difference then. Figures.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Nasty Elitist Pete Stark Threatens to Throw Reporter Out of Window

I remember this from KSFO San Francisco. (In case there's no link in the posted article.)

[thefactor]

Which one is he? HA!

[from occupied ga]

No Joke or Exaggeration-Rangel's Replacement Pete Stark is a Raving Lunatic

So we won't be able to tell there was a change.

[llevrok]

Rangel's Replacement Pete Stark is a Raving Lunatic

So this will be an improvement from Charlie?

[the invisib1e hand]

This is good news, let the crazies be exposed more & more!

Exactly. This is catharsis.

[Thebaddog]

Shouldn’t that really read Fortney Pete Stark is crazy?

[maggief]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011021604106924.html

EXCERPT

These are the men who have run Washington this past year, and they are Mr. Obama’s de facto cabinet. The nearby photos show some of the most powerful, clockwise from the top right:

• Ed Markey of Massachusetts, first elected in 1976, helped to ram the cap-and-tax bill through the House and has pushed relentlessly for the EPA to declare carbon a pollutant under the Clean Air Act that didn’t mention carbon.

• Wisconsin’s David Obey, elected in 1969, is the House Appropriations chairman who steered the $787 billion stimulus to focus on Medicaid expansion and other transfer payments that have done nothing for economic growth.

• Henry Waxman, first elected in the Watergate class of 1974, deposed John Dingell in 2008 as too moderate to run the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Hollywood liberal is co-author of the cap-and-tax vote that will cost numerous Blue Dogs their seats.

• Pete Stark, class of 1972, runs the health subcommittee on Ways and Means and has written most of the House health reform that has forced moderates to walk the plank on the “public option.”

• George Miller, class of 1974 and chief enforcer for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has pushed to nationalize the college student loan market. Like Mr. Stark, he’s from California.

• Barney Frank of Massachusetts, class of 1980 and chief protector of Fannie Mae, wrote the financial reform that would make too-big-to-fail the law for the largest banks. He has also pushed the mortgage foreclosure programs that have extended the housing recession by preventing home prices from finding a bottom.

[grobdriver]

Heh.
This is great!
I'm going to start sending him insulting emails daily!

[sodpoodle]

Rush just played a sound byte:

Town Hall participant to Stark: “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining”

Stupid Stark: “I wouldn’t waste the urine to pee on your leg”

Nice!

[GonzoGOP]

Stark Raving Mad.

Only three words. Says it all.

[Little Ray]

This is a disadvantage, why?

If you have a Froot Loop “Progressive” (aka commie) in charge of a high-visibility committee, it gets easier to paint the rest of the Democrat party with red paint. How long before Pete Stark is too much even for Queen Nancy?

[gogeo]

Charlie just has better company manners.

If we have to tolerate the sleaziness and insanity, there might as well be a cost for RATs in it.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Here is the letter:

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Pete Stark
House of Representatives
239 Cannon HOB
Washington D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Stark,

I am appalled that you voted against today's House Resolution 627, Roll Number 150. This measure would have shown publicly that you condemn the abuse of the prisoners in Iraq while simultaneously commend the service of the fine men and women who are serving in Iraq that bring honor to the uniform that they wear and to the Nation that they serve. . . . .

Here is the source

This should be the phone message that Stark left for Mr. Dow http://www.jeffrmiller.com/stark/pete.wav or read it

I seem to recall that Stark left more than one message, maybe not.

[GonzoGOP]

How long before Pete Stark is too much even for Queen Nancy?

Never, she is farther left and nastier than he is. But you are right that by having the lunatic fringe take over the leadership rolls of the democrat party it will make it easier to take back the house in November. The average American will do whatever it takes to get "Those People" out of power. If the dems had put someone who could pretend to be rational and sane, even while being a ultra leftest, into the position it would be much harder to remove them. Always be thankful for stupid enemies.

[andy58-in-nh]

Because the original wasn't weird enough.