Gallivanting at Galilee
Well, they went to Holy Land, got drunk and buck nakkid and went swimming in the sea where Sweet Jesus walked on water.
What is it the Republicans say? Kiss my ass, this is a holy site.
Please meet your Republican Congress.
Yoder: Invisible drunk
The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff – and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses.
During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) took off his clothes and jumped into the sea, joining a number of members, their families and GOP staff during a night out in Israel, the sources told POLITICO. Other participants, including the daughter of another congressman, swam fully clothed while some lawmakers partially disrobed. More than 20 people took part in the late-night dip in the sea, according to sources who took part in the trip.
Now, I don’t want you to be too hard on Kevin Yoder. He was invisible drunk and thought the only way he could be seen was because of his clothes.
And, as a good Christian, he was not skinny dipping in a Holy Sea, he was trying to walk on water. Imagine his shock when his clothes were lifted from his body by Holy doves and he sank like an anvil in a stock tank.
Not wanting him to feel sad on doing a Titanic imitation, other Republicans helped him.
After what they describe as a “long, hot day,” more than 20 lawmakers and senior aides decided to jump into the sea, sources said. Some went in wearing all their clothes, although others partially undressed.
It was like a big ole Baptism. ‘Cept nakkid.
And they had to skim nasty off the sea for a week afterwards.
This has the makings of a dandy event leading the GOP convention.
Thanks to Carl Whitmarsh for the heads up.
This actually made me feel warmly about anything republicans have done in ages. Except being scared for the fish . . . . and the seaweed . . . .and the scum part.
1I bet those boys’ mothers are so proud of them.
2I have been thinking about the republicans, Juanita Jean. I think being repbulican is a ‘condition’ that they cannot help. I think it is genetic. They couldn’t be Democats if they tried. It’d be like trying to be 5′ 4″ when you are 6′ 5″. The condition includes characteristics like no capacity for independent thinking or having the ability TO even think before speaking.
We really need to have pity on them. It’s not their fault. Their parents’ fault, perhaps, for the bad genetics.
Sad. We need to host a telethon for them and raise money for a cure. I would suggest the weekend before the election.
3Well, . . .hmm. I guess, maybe that GOP guy just din’t wont nuthin between his bod and that water that Jesus walked on. OK, I can sorta understand that. Sorta.
My brain hurts.
4See, Texas, you are not alone. We have crazies dumb arses up here in Kansas. Of course, if you ever run short, we’d be glad to send them down. They’d be right at home with your GOP.
Sigh. Why is it the self-righteous GOP politicians are always the ones to go off the rails and do what they’d crucify Democrats for doing? Oh, yeah, I forget – they are self-serving, greedy hypocrites.
Just so glad they did this on the taxpayer’s dime, aren’t you? Wonder how many teachers, PBS programs, and police they will want to cut to make up for their Holy Land pleasure trip?
If I were a religious woman, I would ask their Sweet Jesus to figuratively smack them upside their pointy little heads and wake them up to their greed and insensitivity to the real needs of the their country: the poor, the elderly, the infirm and the sinking middle class. But that would mean they’d have to keep their clothes on and stay home and actually do some work.
5BTW, what kind of facts were they trying to find?
6“How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Galilee?” (apologies to Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis with music by Walter Donaldson)
7Yoder. Such a delightfully Amish name. I don’t think the Amish have magic underwear, but who knows.
8What’s so wrong about swimming naked? What’s so wrong about being naked at the beach in the first place? Sexualizing the whole issue is the real problem! It would bother me much more if they had kept the women from being nasty by exposing their ankles, and the men had worn trenchcoats for their swim.
9I’m so glad they’re in Florida this time around. If there were here in Minnesota again, we’d have to drain the lake.
10Skinny dipping is a treasured activity for liberals, generally in stock tanks, semi-private lake coves, back yard pools, etc.
Republicans seem to want to exercise their libertine side in noted public places. Since Wilbur Mills and Fanne Fox made the D.C. tidal basin a source of smiles, it has been a merry journey to the Sea of Galilee.
11MSNBC is talking about this first thing Monday morning. I flipped over to FOX, and nada. Same on their website as of right now….might say it’s completely bare. Bless their hearts.
12Y’all (um, yes, I know that’s divisive according to Di.. uh, Rick Sanctimonious but I AM a Southerner and I have been saying it since I could talk so…) um.. back to the topic at hand… y’all, what I get for being married to a church historian is knowing that the earliest baptisms in the Christian church were done naked. It’s true. That’s different from nekkid. So maybe these congressvarmits, et al, were just trying to get back to their Christian roots.
Nah, I’m not buying it either. I doubt they know any church history, either the large ‘C’ church or their own local.
13And the taxpayer paid for it all!!!!
14Don’t forget ‘whatshisname’ and girly on steps of Capitol during ASCAM – under Reagan – lookie here at the link, one of them is Rove’s lawyer, color me SHOCKED:
http://www.nndb.com/group/558/000059381/
15Word is that they were roundly chastised by Eric Cantor, who was madder than a wet hen. I can imagine him, stalking angrily up and down the shore, scolding the participants, averting his eyes at partial nakedness, and wondering what exactly is UP with all these Christians.
16At least we know that Yoder isn’t a witch.
17Oh Eykis, I had not made that connection! Oh my – no shame, these people have no shame.
18Seems odd that the FBI would be involved, think there may be more to this tale? don’t think skinny dippin is a federal crime, umm.
19@Awake. The problem is not with swimming naked. It’s swimming naked in mixed company where things probably progresses from there while passing laws about ultrasound vaginal probes and trying to dump Planned Parenthood etc. It’s a classic case of “it’s okay for us to have sex but if you are poor or don’t have health care to discreetly take care of anything that “gets out of hand”, then you are SOL*. Hipocracy is the problem. Naked is not a problem unless you are Karl Rove or Rush Limbaugh; then it’s a crime against humanity.
SOL = Sweetly out of luck.
20Of course this type of behavior should only be attempted if you are a cartoon character:
21http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html
Speaking of ABSCAM and boinking on the Capitol Steps, Rita Jennrette is now an Italian Princess. Really.:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_levy
22These republicans were simply celebrating the downgrading of the US credit rating. They worked long and hard to cause the country’s credit rating to be downgraded and wanted to celebrate this accomplishment
23Isn’t it really that the lot of them are always such sanctimonious hypocrites! Who cares except that it is evidence of that! I really do not like those people. Can you tell?
24That dude nude is bad enough, but in the Sea of Galilee? What was he drinking?
25I think they were attempting to walk on the water and just fell in.
26I am so amazed at all your comments that I don’t know what I could possibly add, except they may have taken off their clothes so as not to weight them down when they tried to walk on water. No? Nah, I didn’t think so either, but they’ll try to spin it that way.
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