Reindeer Games

[agentsculder]

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 24, 2013

WASHINGTON - ON the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kerry Bentivolio, a Michigan congressman, has a dream, too: to impeach the nation’s first black president.

“If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true,” the freshman Republican told a

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[redstar826]

The biggest problem this country faces is that fools like this managed to get elected thanks to gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is part of the problem, and this district was drawn up as a safe republican district, but Bentivolio is a fluke who will likely only be around for this term because the Republican establishment never wanted him. The seat previously was held by Thad McCotter, who was forced to resign shortly before the republican primary because of a scandal. Bentivolio was the only other Republican on the ticket, and there was not enough time to for someone actually from this planet to file to run in the primary. The republican establishment did not want Bentivolio at all, and ran a more moderate republican as a write in candidate, but she didn't get enough votes. Given how republican this district is Dr. Taj, the democratic candidate, actually made it a pretty close race especially considering he was unknown to most of us before the election.

My guess is that the Republican establishment is going to run someone against Bentivolio in the primary

[moonshaz]

"...Bentivolio is a fluke who will likely only be around for this term..."

Yay.

[redstar826]

meh, his replacement will be another Republican. They will just find one who manages to not be so stupid in public.