I Can Hardly Wait. Counting the Hours Until Monday
Y’all, Steve Stockman is alive and apparently off his meds somewhere. He’s going to let us in on his alien abduction tomorrow.
“Where am I? Find out Monday…” the congressman wrote in the tweet.
The message comes after weeks of unanswered phone calls and emails to Stockman staffers. When reached Thursday night, his wife declined to comment on her husband’s whereabouts.
A quick trip in the Juanita Jean Wayback Machine, reminds us that Stockman was a first term congressman almost 20 years ago who got a fax one hour before the Oklahoma City bombing warning about it.
About 45 minutes before the bomb went off on 4/19/95 in front of the Murrah Building, this idiot’s office got a fax that the sender (who turned out to be one of the “Michigan Militia” who knew McVeigh) had tried to make look like it came from a Federal agency, warning of a bomb threat to a Federal building in Oklahoma City.
Even though all bomb threats are supposed to be reported, this one went into the recycle box.
With all Stockman’s financial woes right now coupled with his political contributions reporting being practically non-exisitant, it’s gotta be a doozy of a story.
I have a suggestion. There’s a story going around about James O’Keefe targeting Battleground Texas. I say we pay O’Keefe to follow Steve Stockman around. This is a win/win for O’Keefe. (1) It’ll be the first honest work he’s ever had, and (2) we’ll even let him wear his pimp outfit.
You know, if Republicans didn’t provide all this entertainment, I’d have to go join the circus.
Or maybe we could hire whats his face James O’Keefe to go harass legislators about NO FAST TRACK FOR THE TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP. He could get paid for quarter hour, half hour, hourly visits. I think his outfit would definitely attract attention. On second thought, we want the legislators to take the TPP seriously. Seriously, JJ, is this photo the real James O’Keefe? Inquiring minds and all that.
1Did he really wear those shades in public?
2Laughing Stock Stockyard is a couple of gohmerts shy of a full pile. He should call off his search party of one, when a cursory check of his soles will reveal his missing parts.
Marge Wood, two things we need to know about the TPP, NAFTA and CAFTA. History repeats itself and all that. So yeah, let’s take a couple of really stupid mistakes and amplify them on a global basis.
3So call your legislators and say LISTEN STUPID, …..no, don’t do that. You can think it though. Thing is, our wondrous legislators spend most of their time fund raising and when somebody comes along and says “If you’ll vote for this incredibly stupid trade agreement that you don’t even know what it says and it will dirty up the river behind your house and take jobs to Hindustan and let anyone at all steal all your digitized information, and we can get an international tribunal to tell you you can’t fight back, we will give you a huge pot of gold. Or silver. Or something. Just sign right here.” IF your legislators and mine (mine will, I’m sorry to say) say SURE, FAST TRACK IT, then TPP will become law in all the countries where it is adopted and it will pre-empt all legislation and regulation in the participating countries. Trade laws should IMPROVE life for the partipating countries, not make them worse. NO FAST TRACK FOR TPP, she said as she marches off with her sign.
4oh, and it will lower already too low wages.
5I thought if you were Raptured you couldn’t come back?
6Well, O’Keefe does need to get out of New York, he says, now that mean ole Andrew Cuomo hurt conservatives’ feelings.
7LynnN, if Steve Stockman is typical of the folks who get Raptured, then I’m not going. I’d rather invest my Bitcoins in asbestos skivvies.
8Dang! This reminds me so much of a scene in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas where a politician who was caught in the raid on the whorehouse is telling the press later on that If he really was there it must be because of a Communist plot involving drugging him and dumping him in the bed of one of the sorority members!!! That scene was so well done, so real!!! I dare Stockyard to top it!
9After a solid..unflinching ..looksee..at that get up..I can hardly wait to see what the extended family-threads..are like!
10Regarding the TPP, can someone explain to me why Republicans who love to get all excited and twitchy and start denouncing the UN and One World Gubermint and attempts to take over our dear United States can back stuff like this that pre-empts national laws?
The Stockman Saga just reminded me of a British sitcom set in a retirement home– the morning after a big party, one fella was found up a tree wearing only a babydoll nightie….
11I’m sticking with alien abduction and/or witness p[rotection program.
12Rhea, best I can understand, it’s not the legislators backing it. THIS TPP ABOMINATION IS BEING PUT TOGETHER BY ALL THE SUPER DUPER RICH FOLKS AND MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS WHO BUY OFF OUR LEGISLATORS. The legislators are allowed to go take notes but they are not allowed to carry any documentation out of meetings. I don’t know which is stranger, Stockman’s disappearance or the whole TPP thing. The difference is, it is a serious mess with the TPP. Stockman, well, I have nothing against him except I won’t miss him. Here. Google WHICH CORPORATIONS are most involved in the TPP. Huffington Post said awhile back that it looked like a corporate takeover of our government. Public Citizen says JOB LOSS, LOWER WAGES, HIGHER DRUG PRICES. Look up EFF and TPP. Better than that novel on your bedside table, except it’s real.
13Marge is correct–our representatives were not even privy to what was in the TPP until it was developed by over 600 corporate flunkies, and when a few were then allowed to see it, they were threatened with legal action if they revealed so much as a single sentence to the media or to their constituents. And it is a corporate take-over–because the changes these corporations have been trying to get, changes in working conditions, changes in basic wages, changes in safety–are things they could NEVER get through Congress–so they’re trying to drag it through the backdoor of trade. We’ve lost 2.5 million jobs–good jobs–to NAFTA and CAFTA. We can’t lose anymore. I lived in a third-world country that had no middle class, and it was hell. I’m not living in another one! Stop the TPP!
14Now I think all the stuff posted here that includes the TPP is darned interesting. Some back-story: NAFTA was supposed to help Mexico bulk up its economy so there wouldn’t be people swimming the Rio Grande or carrying cantaloupes across the desert (did I get that right? was it fruit? or their legs?). It did help a little. I got a different take on TPP. New Zealand. It has a dairy company called Fonterra. It is totally, but totally monolithic and autocratic in that industry in that country. They export all over the Pacific Rim and sure would like to make a big presence here in this country. Fonterra recently had bad stuff get into their milk due to lack of diligence on keeping a pipeline clean. They tried to keep it all on the QT but word got out. They claimed to be embarrassed and said the tainted milk didn’t kill anybody and they did get around to cleaning the pipeline so, so what? The U.S. claims to want NZ as a trading partner. I sure wouldn’t buy anything the export over to us. Fonterra reminds me just a leeetle to much of some other industries like we have in this country. They’re bad enough. Don’t need no more of the same from off-shore.
15Alyssa Burgin, between the elections in 2014 and 2016, it will be a legitimate question to ask all federal office seekers where they stand on the TPP. If they promise to vote against it, become elected then renege, they should be subject to recall or impeachment. The big player for 2016 presidential candidate is the one who acknowledges TPP is a disaster and commits to veto it.
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