{"id":41209,"date":"2014-02-26T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/rep-steve-king-is-a-dolt.html"},"modified":"2014-07-23T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:50:13","slug":"rep-steve-king-is-a-dolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/rep-steve-king-is-a-dolt.html","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Steve King is a Dolt"},"content":{"rendered":"
I mean, really? We’re not treating the Western Hemisphere enough as “Western Christendom” and, thus, we have Cuba and Venezuela? \u00a0And we really ought to do more to “the values that Christopher Columbus brought here across the ocean”?(Actually, I think that’s part of the US problem in the Western Hemisphere: we behave too much<\/i> like Columbus, looking for riches, domination over the locals, and a cheaper way to ship our goods.)<\/p>\n

Of course, it was one of those infamous “late at night with pretty much nobody around” speeches that are made to get into the Congressional Record and be able to send to appropriate interest groups (just check out the state of the House in the first few seconds of the clip). But … yeesh, even for late at night (and even for King (R-Iowa)), it was crazy talk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rep. Steve King: Obama should impose Christendom on Latin America like Columbus | The Raw Story<\/a>
\nLast night, Iowa Representative Steve King went before the House of Representatives and delivered a long speech in which, among other things, he bemoaned that President Obama doesn’t believe in \u201cthe pillars of American exceptionalism\u201d as instantiated in \u201cthe values that Christopher Columbus …<\/p>\n

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I mean, really? We’re not treating the Western Hemisphere enough as “Western Christendom” and, thus, we have Cuba and Venezuela? \u00a0And we really ought to do more to “the values that Christopher Columbus brought here across the ocean”?(Actually, I think that’s part of the US problem in the Western Hemisphere: we behave too much like … Continue reading “Rep. 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