rep. Peter King to break with G.O.P.

[billy.pilgrim]

peter king is pissed about the lack of repub support for sandy relief and just said that the republicon "party can no longer count on my support for anything. from now on I am going to make all my votes based on the merits of the bill"


a republicon voting on the merits of a bill - now that be funny, but he said it

[rstrong]

He's switched sides before. After 9/11 he switched sides in the war on terror.
(Wikipedia: Peter King: Support for the IRA)

If hypocrisy were a religion, King would be their messiah:

King also opposed McCain's calls for an end to torture methods used during terrorist suspect interrogations.
[...]
At a September 2011 hearing in England concerning terrorism, King said that the IRA used British torture as a recruiting tool, but that it has no parallels with American treatment of suspects after 9/11. Labour MP David Winnick commented to King that "there’s been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job looking into and investigating into terrorism" and added that King "seems to be an apologist for terrorism."

But he remains ever vigilant against... um...

On October 7, 2011, King commented on the Occupy Wall Street movement:

We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy. I’m taking this seriously in that I’m old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.

[Banni]

A politician being a politician......

Gotta love them.

[Stinger]

Did they kiss and make up yet?

[billy.pilgrim]

Did they kiss and make up yet?

yeppers, all made up and ready to disregard the merit of any and all legislation beneficial to the citizens when so directed by the party

[rstrong]

Did they kiss and make up yet?

yeppers, all made up and ready to disregard the merit of any and all legislation beneficial to the citizens when so directed by the party

In other words, he was just trying to build an image of himself as a maverick. Without out shaking his pom-poms for terrorists this time.

Sarah Palin and John "I am a maverick I am a maverick I am a maverick I have never called myself a maverick" McCain temporarily destroyed the maverick label.

But Republican memory expires after one election cycle. Palin and McCain are forgotten, but Republicans will want to pretend to distance themselves from the reasons that Republicans were rejected in 2012. This will be a year of Republican faux mavericks out to prove their mavricky maverickness.

[O Really]

King's a chameleon, but be that as it may, how often does any politician anymore call out his/her own party for passing or advocating something stupid? Rare enough to make news, even for an exercise of posturing.

[rstrong]

King's a chameleon, but be that as it may, how often does any politician anymore call out his/her own party for passing or advocating something stupid? Rare enough to make news, even for an exercise of posturing.

It happens quite often... stopping only when it comes time to cast the actual vote in Parliament or Congress. It's done without offending any specific person within the party. People remember that you rebelled against a stupid plan; they don't remember whether you then voted for it.

[Bungalow Bill]

I remember occasionally seeing King on some of the political talk programs 10
or 15 years ago. At the time he seemed like a moderate Northeastern Republican.
Maybe he's changed over the years. I'm not sure because I don't know the details
of his voting record.

[Stinger]

Did they kiss and make up yet?

yeppers, all made up and ready to disregard the merit of any and all legislation beneficial to the citizens when so directed by the party

Didn't take long, did it?

[Stinger]

I remember occasionally seeing King on some of the political talk programs 10
or 15 years ago. At the time he seemed like a moderate Northeastern Republican.
Maybe he's changed over the years. I'm not sure because I don't know the details
of his voting record.

Doesn't matter what his beliefs are. What matters is whether he can please enough of the Tea Party / Gelical / general-all-around-extremist wing of the Republican'ts into picking him in the primary.

The same dimwitted minority of 30% or so who believe Obama is a Muslim who was born in Kenya also controls the majority in Republican primaries, ensuring that we end up with incendiary dimwit obstructions like Allen West.

If King were to actually go maverick, he'd be out of a job after the next election.