Stockman walks out of State of the Union

[alp227]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) said Tuesday night that he left President Obama's State of the Union speech early after "hearing how the president is further abusing his Constitutional powers."

"I could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers," Stockman said in a press release shortly after Obama's speech ended. "Needless to say, I am deeply disappointed in the tone and content of tonight's address."

Stockman said Obama was promising to "break his oath of office and begin enacting his own brand of law through executive decree."

"This is a wholesale violation of his oath of office and a disqualifying offense," the Texas congressman said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/196779-stockman-walks-out-of-state-of-the-union

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But Stockman is all right with Ted Nugent threatening the president. Stockman rewarded Nugent with a seat at the SOTU last year after Nugent's controversial May 2012 "dead or in jail" comment.

[Fridays Child]

1. Executive orders of George W. Bush

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/orders/

[Mnpaul]

22. Good link

Didn't have to look far down the list to find this gem:

Executive Order: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081218-3.html

[Tiberius Gracchus]

26. LOL

You really can't make up this stuff !

[Mnpaul]

36. LOL times 4

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061221.html

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/12/20041230-3.html

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031230-9.html

but of course Bush adjusted pay on the other end, executive pay.

[AtheistCrusader]

55. Fuck yes, I am recommending the hell out of this thread so I can find it again

JUST for this one thread fork. Awesome.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

75. Lol

[Fridays Child]

79. I knew all I had to do was post the link and the best group of people on the Internet would...

...tuck right in and make a tasty meal of it!

DU rocks!

[bigdarryl]

25. BUT he was WHITE!!! so it's OK for him

But not the black guy in the WH

[Heather MC]

64. I thought Republicans had agreed to curb their impeachment rhetoric and only mention it

On days ending in "Y"

[Ultraviolet Cat]

80. Agreed . . .

I'm fairly certain that Republicans think a black president should only have 3/5 the power of a white president -- anything else is clearly an unconstitutional overreach!

[pauliedangerously]

78. Comparing the two Presidents.....

President Obama is up to a total of 167 Executive Orders. At this point in the Bush presidency: 197. Bush finished with 291.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/obama.html

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/wbush.html

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. Texas really brought the stupid tonight

Here's Steve's fellow Lone Star U.S. Rep., tweeting from the House floor:

[red dog 1]

7. Unbelievable!

These Obama-bashing Congressional tea-baggers make me sick!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

23. Kommandant-in-Chef. . .do you smell what the Obama. . .is. . .cooking?

[mwooldri]

56. Obviously Rep. Weber has no idea what socialism is.

the President - a socialist - ???? bwahahahah!

[red dog 1]

62. + 1

[Aldo Leopold]

74. Is that real? What an English-mangling cretin!

[riversedge]

3. So Stockman has resurfaced......"had missed weeks of House votes"

....The Tea Party-backed congressman had missed weeks of House votes and hadn't been campaigning in Texas for his race against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). After tweeting that people could "find out Monday" where he'd been, Stockman resurfaced this Monday to say he'd been on a House-sanctioned international trip and blasting reports saying he had been missing.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/196779-stockman-walks-out-of-state-of-the-union#ixzz2rloo5EEL




Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/196779-stockman-walks-out-of-state-of-the-union

[freshwest]

12. So he was on a trip on our money, selling us out to who? Slimeball! n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Cry me a river, Tea baggers.

[pothos]

6. then draw up articles of impeachment you fucking coward.

do it, and see how well it goes over with the country.

[yorokmok]

52. Another year of doing nothing....

If they did that they would have an excuse as to why they spent another year getting absolutely nothing done... Just what they would love!

[red dog 1]

8. Kick!.....Thanks for posting.

[yuiyoshida]

9. I guess he didn't hear the part about

HOW He was going to make himself King, and HANG all TRAITORS who walk out of his speech.




Stupid Republican Jerks...

[freshwest]

13. Really? I have popcorn! I'm really getting tired of these arrogant dillweeds! n/t

[yuiyoshida]

15. Whats amazing is they are Arrogant....and

Stupid beyond all understanding.

[nikto]

20. America needs leaders who CARE about The people, like THIS guy...

Kotoku Wamura, the Fudai village mayor from 1947 to 1987.

His persistence and resolve against heavy criticism saved the town of Fudai,
which had only 1 casualty in the tsunami.



http://blog.nihongo-pro.com/2011/04/mayors-vision-saves-japanese-village.html

Sounds like a "Republican-opposite"-type to me.

備えあれば憂いなし

[VWolf]

38. Arrogance and stupidity often go hand-in-hand

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

[jamesatemple]

48. Authority + Ignorance = Arrogance n/t.

[Iliyah]

14. North Korea, anyone?

Freedumb!!!!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

27. Obama declared war on Jesus, Motherhood, Apple Pie and the American Pastime.

His desire to raise the American way of life for all Americans is so un-American and an abuse of power.

Impeachment, Stockman. . .that's the ticket.

Seriously, WTF is wrong with Texas? Cornyn, Perry, Cruz, Gohmert, Stockman, Farenthood, DeLay, Armey, Bush. . .WTF is wrong with Texas?

[jwirr]

43. Texas gets plenty of government money but they deny it. Think of all the government

installations that are located in Texas. There are many we do not even know about. An example: I am enrolled in DirectExpress which is a Fed bank that holds a lot of the Social Security money - it is located in Texas.

By the way my question re DirectExpress is why is my social security money not located in an account close to where I live. I, and I assume many others, am not interested in bumping up the economy in Texas while my state has a perfectly good Fed in Minneapolis.

Ironically all the workers at these Texas installations will benefit from President Obama's government pay raises. So they get to bite the hand that feeds them and get paid for it.

[AnneD]

47. Thanks to extreme redistricting.....

and the SCOTUS upholding it, it will take a few sticks of dynamite to blow them out of their seats. I think, however, they lite the fuse last July when they passed those abortion laws. Really pissed off the women of Texas. Look for the women getting more involved and doing some heavy duty cleaning.

[atreides1]

54. What's wrong with Texas?

The same thing that's wrong in so many "Red" States...too many imbeciles and religious fanatics...one group can't get the mental health care they need and the other is competing with the Taliban!

Also, the way that they rigged the congressional districts...gave gerrymandering a whole new meaning!!!

[2naSalit]

10. Absolute POS

with these clods it's all about making sure they show the ultimate disrespect for our not so pearly white president. That's why they make such a point of remaining seated when everyone else applauds and why they must defeat his agenda at all costs (mostly to us since it doesn't hurt them at all)... treasonous bastards. As long as they can keep getting re-elected...

[SoapBox]

11. Fuck off, Mr. PukeBagger.

Another disgraceful tantrum.

[Cha]

16. President Obama doing his part to

weed out the riffraff(read sociopathic attentionwhores). cruz walked out of Madiba Mandela memorial.

[nikto]

17. Executive Orders Totals for US Presidents

Obama has yet to catch up to Bush.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Of course, Obama being black isn't a factor in this guy's insanity. Right?

[ExPatLeftist]

19. "Rule by executive order" The numbers don't lie

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php

Bush had more EOs in his first term than Obama has had in his entire presidency so far. Obama had fewer EOs in his first term than any president since Grover Cleveland. These idiots believe the paranoid hype too much to care about numbers.

[leftynyc]

24. You would think one freeking journalist

would point this out and pin him down on why it was perfectly okay for a white president to do this and now it's the end of civilization.

[DFW]

21. A sanctioned international trip?

Do tell. Where was it? The Appalachian Trail (he wouldn't know where that is) or Argentina?

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Glad he left. His verbal bullshit continually stinks up the place. nt

[another_liberal]

29. What a fucking hotdog.

Stockman is one of those guys who has to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. If he isn't getting enough attention, he'll cut a big fart and then laugh out loud about it.

[countmyvote4real]

35. +1

Nicely said.

[catbyte]

30. Stay classy, baggers.

[MrModerate]

31. Just plain nuts. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

32. Good.

Extremist congressfaker comes back from extended unexplained offshore vacation after missing multiple votes, only to demonstrate hate for the American way.

[madrchsod]

33. i`m taking my ball and going home....

[countmyvote4real]

34. Makes me want to cut a deal with Mexico.

Let's trade Texas for NAFTA.

[santamargarita]

37. Another America Hating Right-Wing asshole!

[Gman]

39. So Stockman has surfaced

After being MIA for a while.

[erpowers]

40. Only Grover Cleveland Issue Less Executive Orders Than President Obama

Democrats, including President Obama, need to push back against this idea that President Obama is disregarding the Constitution by threatening to issue executive orders. Last night during the CBS coverage of the SOTU it was pointed out that one would have to go back to Grover Cleveland to find a President who issued fewer executive orders than President Obama. Put another way, Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan issued more executive orders than President Obama.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/obama-executive-orders-guns.html

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

41. a bagger walked out...

and nobody noticed... so he had to "TWEET"! ROFLMAO!

[frylock]

59. for the win

[DinahMoeHum]

42. Fuckin' drama queen.

[Mike Daniels]

44. At least this clown and Bachmann will be out of their jobs next year

I know Bachmann chose not to run for re-election and I think Stockman decided to make his quixotic quest for Senator.

Either way, the Congress will be without two of its most useless/do-nothing members come mid-January 2015.

[bigworld]

45. Did anyone actually SEE him there in the first place?

This guy's been MIA for weeks now. Was he even at the SOTU for the beginning of it?

[mackerel]

46. Stockman is an attention hoor.

[mountain grammy]

49. The SOTU is the night Republicans expose their hateful sides to the world.

My nephew had his usual hate filled rant against "dumbass Obama" and all the "dumbass Democrats" and all the "dumbass voters" who voted for him.. I guess including the soldier who had half his head blown off in Afghanistan on his 10th fucking deployment.

[Harry Monroe]

50. Stay classy, Stockman

The very same representative who invited Ted Nugent, a pants crapping, draft dodging chickenshit coward to last year's SOTU address. Class, pure class Mr. Stockman. If you don't respect the man, at least respect the office he holds and stay. Sit on your hands if you must, but decorum dictates that you stay put when a President is speaking. I don't care who that President is.

[workinclasszero]

51. Ronald Reagan/Executive orders

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Ronald_Reagan/Executive_orders

George Herbert Walker Bush/Executive orders

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Herbert_Walker_Bush/Executive_orders

When are these lying hypocrite repigs gonna condemn their god Rayguns for his EO's? And Daddy Bush and sons EO's?

[olddad56]

53. Texas seems more like a separete country than a state in this country. Let them leave.

[Thinkingabout]

76. Don't make us go, yea, I know we have lots of idiots here but we are trying to turn

This fine state blue.

[NastyRiffraff]

57. Don't let the door...

you know the rest. Stay classy, Stockman.

[hamsterjill]

58. These idiots are just grandstanding!

I am a Texan and I cringe at these idiots.

But I sure wish the media would start ignoring them when they throw tantrums. Because they throw the tantrums to get attention.

[Gothmog]

60. Juanita Jean is wondering if Stockman failed to go to restroom before leaving home

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/01/29/oh-please-fess-up-you-didnt-go-before-you-left-home/

Steve Stockman, man of mystery locations, walked out of the State of the Union address last night. Because he was raised in a damn barn.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) said Tuesday night that he left President Obama’s State of the Union speech early after “hearing how the president is further abusing his Constitutional powers.”

“I could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers,” Stockman said in a press release shortly after Obama’s speech ended. “Needless to say, I am deeply disappointed in the tone and content of tonight’s address.”

Wait. Wait. If you walked out, how do you know what he said? Steve, are you using those Superman powers of yours again?

Bless his heart, he walked out and nobody even missed him.

The fact that no one missed him must really hurt.

[benld74]

61. What an effin poser these sanctimonious pricks really are,

the statements they make are in the form of 'The Dems are doing things NOBODY has ever done before'. And I believe the GOP allow this to happen to make themselves look like the downtrodden party. No class, no virtue, no brains GOP.
Good link to W's executive orders. Of course only people with minds of their own will look at them.

[bkanderson76]

63. Grow Some Huevos Texas and Just Secede...You Have Our Permission

[LynneSin]

65. Yet these people had no issues when Bush did it for 8 years

Just saying....

It isn't about the 'abuse of the executive privledge' it's about the concept that it's a democrat that has that privledge and not a republican.

[SouthernDonkey]

66. Typical

Just another ignorant ass, racist Tea Bagger from Texas. K&R

[oldandhappy]

67. Very t-pub

Please plan to spend some time on phone banks for the primary and general elections in 2014. We need YOU to help take back the House and keep the Senate.

[dembotoz]

68. i thought depends were supposed to help with that problem

[2pooped2pop]

69. This years version of "You lie" He probably planned to walk out ahead of time

Now he hopes to ride the bounce from the rightwingadings.

[freedom fighter jh]

70. Dumbing Down

I get my entertainment from right-wing talk radio, trying to understand how the other side thinks.

Right-wing talk radio is remarkable for its lack of specificity. "Constitution, Constitution, Constitution." "We are the side that respects the Constitution." "With all these executive orders Obama is violating the Constitution." These things are repeated over and over, never supported. They never explain *how* they support the Constitution and we don't. They never say *how* the use of executive orders violates separation of powers. The president's job is to run the executive branch of government. One tool he uses in doing that is executive orders. There is nothing wrong with that.

It's almost as if these talkers *want* their listeners to stop thinking.

[yorokmok]

72. There is no doubt they want them to stop thinking...

If their listeners were thinking they would stop listening!!!

[CTyankee]

71. WHINY BABY BOY!

Grow up!!!

[Redford]

73. Must be an election year

I don't think the Tea Party even wants him around

[treestar]

77. So he does not know what an Executive Order is

yet got elected to Congress. Thanks, Texas District.

[Sancho]

81. I think these tea-pubs are planning a disruption every SOTU...

they probably draw straws and pick who is going to yell "you lie" or stomp out or whatever...as long as someone does something outlandish just to feed the idiots.

[truthisfreedom]

82. Cockroach runs from the light.