Posted on 03/03/2010 8:28:32 AM PST by Neoavatara
Wow. The chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee is the gift that keeps on giving.
With Charlie Rangel taking a 'leave of absence' which everyone but Rangel knows will eventually become permanent, the powerful chairmanship is up for grabs, with Pete Stark of California to the most senior member and therefore most likely to receive the position.
Don't know Pete Stark? Well, he is the Democrat version of Jim Bunning...a kook that is often off the reservation.
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So you think Bunning is a “kook?”
Fourtney Pete Stark - FON (Friend Of Nanzi)
“Bunning, Kook”
IBTZ
Bunning is a kook?
Because he opposed TARP? because he opposes passing deficits on without a recorded vote?
IBTZ
Pete Stark is an idiot and a moron and the OPPOSITE of Senator Jim Bunning.
Senator Bunning was the only one to stand up and say NO WAY to adding $10 Billion to the debt without a recorded vote.
The ONLY one.
How often have we seen a Senator do the honorable thing?
Not very bloody often.
ZOT!!!
Anyone have thoughts or info on his position on taxation? Perhaps this will doom the estate tax “fix” and we will return to 2001 law at the end of the year.
Gwjack
This posting belongs in “Blogs and Personal”
Pete Stark is a lying cheating doucheb*g
Pete Stark moved into a new district because he was going to lose in his old one.
Pete Stark lists his California residence as is in-laws house.
When interviewed, none of his supposed neighbours had ever seen him at the house.
Pete Stark took a tax credit meant for someone’s primary residence in MARYLAND.
Of course, a house panel cleared him of any wrongdoing after he said he made a mistake, a mistake that would land us little people in prison.
Pete Stark is proud that he is an atheist and takes every opportunity to tell everyone.
He told a senior at a town hall, “I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It would be a waste of time.”
HUGE difference between Bunning and Stark.
The media tries to portray Bunning as a kook (and you obviously either bought it or are trying to pander to people who don’t know any better.)
Stark IS a kook.
Your blog won’t be getting a hit from me.
Read this and you’ll learn why the media wants to portray him as a “kook”...
What’s your excuse?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463258/posts
Pity me, I am/ sitting in his district court jury room surrounded by people that keep voting for this loser. Ughhhhh.
Well, since I have taken a lot of heat about Bunning, let me tell you clearly what I think.
Bunning is kooky. Anybody that is honest about his past knows that. Hell, I bet Bunning (a man, by the way, I have personally had the honor of meeting) would admit the same. He doesn’t want to be portrayed as a run of the mill politician.
This was a guy that last year said Ruth Bader Ginsberg would be dead by the end of the year. Not exactly mainstream, and a little kooky, no?
That said, I applaud Bunning for his actions this week. I wish the whole Republican establishment would have stood behind him. But it is specifically because he is ‘kooky’ that Bunning had the courage to stand up against deficit spending. I don’t think you can name another Republican that would have had the courage to stand up to the media bashing the way he did.
But that said, I still stand behind the statement that he is kooky...but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t right.
Is Pelosi next? Savage has been talking about her commandeering government jets for her family. Not business, just pleasure trips.
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