You Can Add Thieving To Deadbeat Dad Title
Joe Walsh. Illinois. Crazy hollering dude who doesn’t pay his child support.
Well, it now appears that stealing bills from Democrats is his new hobby.
Rep. Tim Bishop thinks Rep. Joe Walsh’s bill to provide renovation grants for Veterans of Foreign Wars posts is a really good piece of legislation.
Primarily because he wrote it.
In 2010, Bishop, a Democrat from New York, introduced the Renovate and Enhance Veterans’ Meeting Halls and Posts Act with a bipartisan group of co-sponsors. Then in May of this year, Walsh, a Republican from Illinois, unveiled a practically verbatim version of the bill on his own without consulting Bishop or asking him to be a co-sponsor.
Now, prepare for the cringe factor: this is same Joe Walsh who whined that his opponent, Tammy Duckworth, spent too much time talking about her years in the military. Duckworth, of course, is a war hero – so any time she talks about it is too much time in Walsh’s mind.
So, Walsh needed something – a little gift, let’s say – for veterans. So, he stole a bill.
Joe the Jerk is his mafia name, you know.
I will be so glad when he loses this race and gets his own show on Fox.
Thanks to David for the heads up.
A few weeks ago, Marco Rubio introduced the RAISE Act. Essentially, it allows a company with a union contract to pay more than the upper negotiated wage scale to a recipient they deem worthy. Of course it will go to brown-noser or relative first, but what the heck; simply put, it is a union busting bill.
But, guess what? It is verbatim from a bill introduced by, and I hate to say this, my senator David Vitter. He introduced it in 2009 and it went nowhere at the time. I called Vitter’s office and asked them if the senator sold it, donated it, or pulled it out of the trash can and gifted it to Rubio. Unfortunately, as usual, I was talking to a young staffer with little experience in the office and I could hear the crickets chirping. The staffer told me someone would contact me with an answer. Thank God, I did not hold my breath while waiting…
1Vitter, Vitter? There’s something familiar about that name? Oh yeah, now I remember.
2Joe Walsh is an embarrassment to the Eagles guitarist/singer of the same name. As for David Vitter, the less said, the better. How Diaper Dave got re-elected is simply beyond me.
3If Joe the Jerk is his mafia name, then what is his stripper name?
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