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Pete Stark: The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country
Breitbart ^ | Town Hall

Posted on 08/02/2010 8:43:31 AM PDT by Varmint Al

Pete Stark: The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country

http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-at-town-hall-the-federal-government-can-do-most-anything-in-this-country/

The questioner has a good understanding of the Constitution.
Pete Stark is just one more example of the ruling class.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; democrats; donttreadonme; liberalfascism; petestark; termlimits; termlimitsnow
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To: gdzla

Want to get in on a “Preakness Pool”?


21 posted on 08/02/2010 9:07:21 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: darkangel82

Well, I agree with that. The SF Bay area is easily the most liberal area in the entire country.

But does that give this horse’s ass a complete and total license to say and do whatever he pleases without any fear of being held accountable?


22 posted on 08/02/2010 9:11:27 AM PDT by Gen. Burkhalter
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To: Varmint Al

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness” Declaration of Independence

Hey Pete suck on that! Remembering “consent of the governed”!!!!!!!1


23 posted on 08/02/2010 9:12:21 AM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: Varmint Al

Can’t compensate Americans for having to deal with Pete Stark


24 posted on 08/02/2010 9:14:27 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Gen. Burkhalter
There is a Republican Candidate in District 13 of CA

http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=120051

 

Forest Baker (CA)

Office Seeking: U.S. House (Won, Primary)
District Seeking: 13
Party: Republican

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

25 posted on 08/02/2010 9:16:46 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: Varmint Al
"Fortney Hillman" Stark

Engineering degree from MIT, an MBA, 2 yrs in the Air Force, started his own bank from scratch and grew it in a decade to a $100 million enterpries, ran against a long-time incumbent (on a "he's been around too long" platform)... jeez, that's the background of a guy I thought I'd want to support!

But the MBA is from Cal-Berkeley, he's a Bay area devotee, he's been in for 38 yrs (the "too-long-timer" he orignially ran against was only in for 28 yrs)...

This guy rivals any Dem for having a mouth that gets him in trouble, by the way. He called Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Wade Sullivan, an African American, "a disgrace to his race" for supporting Bush Administration policies...

Other controversies include singling out "Jewish colleagues" for blame for the Persian Gulf War and referring to Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York (who co-sponsored the Gulf War Authorization Act) as "Field Marshal Solarz in the pro-Israel forces." in 1991.

In 1995, during a private meeting with Congresswoman Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, he called Johnson a "whore for the insurance industry" and suggested that her knowledge of health care came solely from "pillow talk" with her husband, a physician. His press secretary, Caleb Marshall, defended him in saying, "He didn't call her a 'whore,' he called her a 'whore of the insurance industry.'"

In 1999, he said to former California State Welfare Director Eloise Anderson, herself a former welfare mother, that she would "kill children if she had her way" for her advocacy of welfare reform.[6] In a 2001 Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health hearing on abstinence promotion, he referred to Congressman J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, an African American, as "the current Republican Conference Chairman, whose children were all born out of wedlock."

In 2003, when Stark was told to "shut up" by Congressman Scott McInnis of Colorado during a Ways and Means Committee meeting due to Stark's belittling of the chairman, Bill Thomas of California, he replied, "You think you are big enough to make me, you little wimp? Come on. Come over here and make me, I dare you. You little fruitcake."

In an August 23, 2008 video taped interview with Jan Helfeld concerning the size of the national debt, Stark stated that the size of the national debt is a reflection of the nation's wealth. When pressed if the nation should take on more debt in order to have more wealth, Stark threatened Helfeld and said, “You get the fuck out of here or I’ll throw you out the window.”

On August 27, 2009, Stark suggested that his moderate Democratic colleagues were "brain dead" for proposing changes to the health care reform bill being considered by Congress. Saying that they "just want to cause trouble," Stark claimed, "they're for the most part, I hate to say, brain dead, but they're just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process" during a conference call.

Even the San Francisco Chronicle editorialized on Stark, "Only a politician who assumes he has a job for life could behave so badly on a semi-regular basis by spewing personalized invective that might get him punched in certain East Bay taverns. Would-be challengers sometimes sense a whiff of opportunity, but the reality of taking on a 16-term Democrat in solidly liberal terrain is nothing short of daunting. Surely there must be someone along the shoreline between Alameda and Fremont who could represent the good citizens of the district with class and dignity. It's not the case now."

26 posted on 08/02/2010 9:25:27 AM PDT by Teacher317 (remember dismember November)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
"When the lady tells him he’s ruining the country Stark just nods like the fool he is."

After nodding for awhile he then says; "Well I am sure glad you are here to save it."

27 posted on 08/02/2010 9:25:59 AM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Teacher317

If I remember right, back in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s, he “cussed out” Lt. Col. Oliver North. Start has no class whatsoever !


29 posted on 08/02/2010 9:31:16 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: fremont_steve
Like most coastal CA districts I think Stark's has been gerrymandered to select ultra-liberal voters. We have the same problem in SoCal with Jane Harman's and Lois Capps's districts.

Capps's District 23 looks like a long coast-hugging snake and it's carefully drawn to exclude all but the most liberal communities. Nothing will change unless some effective re-districting is done, and that concept is so alien to most dumbed-down voters the chances are zero to none. The fix is in.

30 posted on 08/02/2010 9:38:17 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: Varmint Al

What a dope. A pure moron. A joke.


31 posted on 08/02/2010 9:43:03 AM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: Varmint Al

Any relation to Forrest.......?


32 posted on 08/02/2010 9:48:04 AM PDT by Gen. Burkhalter
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To: gdzla
“John has a long mustach.”

"The chair is against the wall."
33 posted on 08/02/2010 9:49:25 AM PDT by CygnusTheSwan ("Me fail English? That's unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum)
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To: Varmint Al

One thing the government can NOT do is make Fortney live forever.


34 posted on 08/02/2010 10:04:12 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Gen. Burkhalter
No Relation. I am in District 10, CA and am ashamed that District 13 sends Stark to Washington.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

35 posted on 08/02/2010 10:06:01 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: Varmint Al

Who is that woman? We need to elect her, and send her to Washington in November to represent the Conservative viewpoint. She was dead-on and great in her delivery.


36 posted on 08/02/2010 11:45:42 AM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: The Good Doctor
Rush just played Stark's response to the woman on his program. I would vote for that woman in a heartbeat!

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

37 posted on 08/02/2010 11:59:08 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: Varmint Al

Then why can’t they stop the “Victory Mosque” at ground Zero?


38 posted on 08/02/2010 12:37:31 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Varmint Al

When you don’t believe in God, like Pete, government becomes “God.”


39 posted on 08/02/2010 12:41:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Varmint Al

The Federal Government can do most anything in this country ass-backwards.
Now I can agree with THAT/s;)


40 posted on 08/02/2010 1:04:21 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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