GOP nutjob Bill Sali (R-ID) introduces bill outlawing gravity

[Zambero]

This guy was even considered ultra-weird by his GOP counterparts in the Idaho legislature. A House district that usually goes 2-1 Republican just sent this guy to Congress with a less-than-impressive 5% margin of victory. This classic display of wingnutitis should serve as a heads up to Sali's constituents as to how effective he'll be in representing their interests in Congress.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/67514.html

[mdmc]

1. ha ha

I must admit, we don't have too many pukes like that in NYS... Peace to you and thanks for the post.

[Kber]

2. That kinda faith in the "laws" of the free market

even in the face of contradictory history, borders on economic zealotry. Scary.

[GuvWurld]

18. The free market is a myth

No-bid contracts, government sanctioned media consolidation, airline bailouts, and other corporate welfare do not happen in a free market system.

[mcg]

3. So the power of corporations cannot be challenged?

"Mr. Sali made the point — metaphorically — that the force of Congress cannot rightly be used to alter the inevitable consequences that naturally arise from the rules and principles of the free market," Schwarzwalder said.

What nonsense, the federal minimum wage proves that such 'consequences' are not inevitable, corporations can be and are regulated, and rightly so. Corporate power is not a force of nature.

Thomas Jefferson warned about corporations, even back then.

Maybe we could allow less than minimum wage under one condition, that the head of the company paying such a wage earns no more than the lowest paid worker. After all, if less than minimum wage is needed for a company to survive, the head of the company should be willing to accept that kind of pay.

[Toots]

4. Gravity is after all only a theory

There is every bit as much evidence that Intelligent Design Sucks.....

[radfringe]

7. and besides

bush issued a signing statement saying the laws of gravity do not apply to him

[Ediacara]

5. Can someone remind Mr Sali what happened the last time we tried...

...the Libertarians' economic plan? No one raised wages out of the goodness of their heart and poverty ran rampant. We call this the Gilded Age now...

[Marr]

8. That's what I don't understand.

There are recent historical examples they can look at and see that their ideas simply do not achieve the results they claim. Are they just ignorant? I don't get it.

These are often the same people who will anxiously offer up the old "Communism has been tried and it failed line", as well- which makes it even more confusing. So has Libertarianism!

[Ediacara]

10. Nice one!

[nealmhughes]

6. Eric Hobsbawm has a peculiar term (in the historic use of the term), "Vulgar Marxism"

in which he posits that simply reducing everything to mere economic terms is simplistic, discounts other motivational factors in peoples' lives and is as a result, not viable for historical analysis.
The corporatists do the same exact thing that Hobsbawms's "Vulgar Marxists" do: complete faith in a mythic "Market Force" a la Rand, Friedman, et al. that "leftists" do in their apotheosis of violent Communist revolutionaries who were no champions of liberty and are guilty of thwarting the true ideas of Marx and Engels through Leninism and its foul offspring Trotskyites and Stalinists.
Neoconservatives are truly the Trotskyites of the Right: no opposition is to brooked and the "revolution" is to be eternal until no chance of its failure is possible. Hence we have ideological idiots who ought to be in asylums, but given our more tolerant times, are authors and advisors to the administration and even members of Congress.

[IDemo]

9. This will not be the last of Sali's lunacy

Look for plenty more from the guy who caused a walkout by Democrats (yes, they exist) in the Idaho statehouse after insisting that abortion may cause breast cancer.

Idaho GOP picks Nutjob for House seat - Meet Bill Sali

[candidate]

11. Who the hell elects these idiots?

A lot of these representatives are freakin lunatics.

[Zambero]

15. Sali also promised to consume only bottled water. And why??

The (heavily chlorinated) domestic water source in D.C. is the Potomac River. During the campaign, Sali promised to avoid D.C. tap water, lest he get caught up in "Potomac Fever". So he makes a point of carrying a container of bottled water everywhere he goes. The guy is heavy on symbolism but way short on gray matter.

[bermudat]

19. Freakin lunatics elect freakin lunatics.

[NoPasaran]

12. What the hell are they putting in those potatoes?

[sakabatou]

13. Wow...

That's just stupid on another level.

[MN ChimpH8R]

14. Even dumber than His Chimperial Majesty

Where do the 'pukes find these batshit crazy morans anyway? There seems to be an endless supply of them. :crazy:

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. What a dipshit

Any wonder why they lost so big in November?

[IDemo]

17. Not the first repug whack-job from Idaho

Congressman Steve Symms once advised my high school American government class in the 70's that he believed the Soviets may possess a "subterrine", basically a submarine with a very serious drill bit on the nose. He thought they were intent on burrowing their way through Earth's crust towards the American continent to launch a surprise attack. Symms was once thought to be drunk on the floor of the house because of his rambling, disconnected speech.

Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth once claimed that salmon must not be too endangered "because I can buy them in the can at Albertsons".