Taking bets: How long ’til Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson cries “RAAAACISM?”
Oh, dear. Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson apparently believes Guam is going to “tip over” from overpopulation and “capsize.” Snort-inducing moment: The response from Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, who pauses ever so slightly before politely informing Johnson that “we don’t anticipate that.”
Instant classic:
Taking bets: How long before race hustler Rep. Johnson cries “RAAACISM!” to deflect questions about his sanity and mental fitness for office?
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As soon as this goes truly viral…this will show the racism and meanness of the right for mocking a man with a serious illness. Do we not have any shame?…will be the cry.
Affirmative action at it best…
Wow, we need to add another layer to the selection process for US Senators/US Reps – 1). win an election, 2). pass an IQ test. Un frickin’ believable.
The over-population problem Rep. Johnson alludes to might, in fact, better apply to the continental US… we are the fastest growing [population] in the industrialized world. If I were him, I’d be much more worried about what is happening right here at home first.
Um, uhh, ok. WTF!!?? How can anyone like that get elected to congress? Oh wait. I just answered my question.
Sounds to me like he was hitting the meds a little too hard.
I wish this was an April Fool’s joke.
Man, is this guy on the sauce!
Wow. How demeaning it must be to be such an accomplished military man, and not be able to respond with, “Congressman, that is the most d@mn foolish statement I have ever heard in my career”…rather than giving the kind of non response he did.
….just another nitwit elected to office by nitwits, running on trying to sound so intelligent, in the end sounding like a raving lunatic.
I posted this earlier on my blog. Can you believe somebody voted this guy into office. Is it any wonder many of us think the Dems are out of touch with reality when it is apparent that some were never in touch to begin with.
In Congress?
4th District of Georgia?
April Fool’s joke 24/7/365 except the joke is on us
The Black Caucus
Hispanic Caucus
Democratic Caucus
= The Three Stooges gone bad
Barney Frank’s Queer Caucus meets in the mens’ room Thursdays.
I’ve been struggling all night to decide which question by a representative scores the highest on sheer stupidity: this one, or “Queen Sheila” Jackson Lee’s question as to whether the Mars rover would be able to take pictures of the flag astronauts planted (on Mars).
Either way, while funny at first, it’s more than a little sad that these are the people running our government, and soon to be our health care.
But on the other hand – they perfectly represent the people who voted for them.
Concerned for the ecology of Guam. The ecology of Guam is already a mess owing to the introduction of the Asian Brown Snake that came off of some aircraft or ship and the Coconut Beetle have had a deleterious effect on the local eco-systems and Congress has apparently little or no concern. Likewise the effect of overgrazing by imported Philippine Carabao have been ignored. So why is it that this Congresscritter is concerned about the ecological impact of moving some 2,000 Marines and their dependents and support personnel to Guam and why at this late date? Heck there are more Japanese tourists on Guam on any given day than that.
Who’s paying him to be concerned, since he’s never been all that concerned before.
Yep, the joke’s on us!
Okay, I am now more stoopider for having watched that……who knew one man could bring the collective IQ of this country down 60 points all by himself….
SirKnob, what ought to scare the p*ss out of you is that if he weren’t in that seat, Cynthia McKinney might be, which actually means he’s an improvement.
Is it something in that district’s water???
we as a nation are screwed
This is simply painful. How long can our republic last with this caliber of leadership voted in by his equally unqualified constituency?
I don’t get why anyone would call this racist for any reason. Saying so is a diversion from the real issue.
The real issue – Our military is relocating from Japan to Guam and this has the potential to overwhelm the existing infrastructure (roads, sewers, schools, potable water, etc).
Speculation as to what one individual will say, or not say, is fine for parlor talk. But, it leaves what amounts to a difficult situation for Guam unaddressed.
Imagine one of our Founding Fathers watching that clip today.
Unbelievable.Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson isn’t just an “April Fool”.
He’s a “Whole Year Fool”.
Doesn’t say much for the people who voted for him.
“Who’s the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him?” Obi Wan Kenobi.
What if someone were to point out that there are some outstandingly stupid people in the Congressional Black Caucus?
Z:
The US military deploys and re-deploys all the time, and when the local infrastructure is unable to cope with an influx of troops, the military either upgrades the existing support structure or builds it to suite the need.
The military does not just throw thousands of personnel into someplace and leave. There is all sorts of planning that takes place, from the operational need to warplanning, from deployment assessments to troop numbers, from dependent placement to NEO planning, etc. Moving a small city is not easy but the military does it all the time, and moving to Guam would be easy when compared to moving, say, 17,000 troops from the 101st into the barren wide-open Saudi desert. In a few weeks back in ’91, the waterless sea of sand was changed into a fully functional “city.”
Logistics and support planning (the ‘tail”) of military operations is key to an effective fighting force. You can bet PACAOM has looked at all the options, evaluated what is required to support the troops and is prepared.
It is an embarrassment that the Admiral would be subject to some ignorant questioning by an enormously buffoonish inquisitor.
The race hustlers last hurrah’s. I wonder when they will figure out what party they are really in.
I can’t believe this POS is my rep. Even sadder is the people that vote him in are even dumber that he is. Question for Dems: Is this an example your superior education, intelligence and understanding of science?
This. Has. Got. To. Be. A. Joke.
And now, just a brief moment in time for something completely interesting:
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning last November’s Presidential election:
•Number of States won by:Obama: 19 McCain: 29
•Square miles of land won by:Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.”
“Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
It is sad that this guy doesn’t have the honor and dignity to step down and let someone with a better grip on reality take over. The worst thing is the Leadership of the House, and his party have not forced him to step down before this. I was initally embarassed for the committee chairman for about 10 seconds untill I realized he is allowing this to happen on his watch. This is why people don’t trust the government. I don’t blame the people who elected him, you don’t have much of a choice in most elections, it is litterly the Dumb and Dumber election show in EVERY District and State even local elections! This is why our government is the corrupt joke it has become. Unlike Michelle, it is things like this that make me embarassed to be an American. The parties are so focused on getting idiots elected that will always vote the party line they keep people like this in office. Is it any wonder more and more people are talking about succession?
And then there is this:Self explanatory .
Proof Chicago tough guys don’t know everything and neither do those from Delaware. I want the job of retraining.
For those of you who have never traveled to the West or Southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the “guards,” probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.
A few months ago, President Obama received a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the guards immediately.
Before the Interior Secretary could respond and presumably straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that before any guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.
Passed on to you without further comment….
This is the strength of the military: they treat with underserved respect men that they would not allow to swab the decks of their ships. Bravo Admiral.
Mach1Duck said:
That was classic – I wondor what Zippy would say if given a report concerning the high price paid by the federal gov for Prop Wash in the Military.
Why’s this kind of stuff kept secret? If I won the lottery I’d print out a handbook of golden truths just like these for dissemination to every Tea Party and conservative rally there was to enlighten the troops. Too many of them play knowledge by ear or just don’t have the informative ammo to help reinforce their positions and provide more clueless clown/racist/.ignoramus fodder for the media.
James Greenidge
Queens New York
I would love a link to this one!
Sadly, the Admiral treated this Representative with more respect than his Commander in Chief treats fellow heads of state.
…but congressman….if the island DID capsize, we could spread the people out more…..since there is no one inhabiting the other side of the island now…
PLEASE let a Fox News reporter ask Obama what he intends to do about the high cost of prop wash in the military! It would be so funny, for about 1 second untill he makes his stupid answer.
And that would be one reporter that was never allowed in a WH briefing again, but well worth it to show America who they elected.
All,
Mach1Duck’s anecdote is fiction.
It was first circulated in 1995, but Pres Clinton was the target.
That’s a condition known as liberalism.
Wow! He makes that crack whore Marion Barry sound coherent! Non compos mentis much?
Isn’t this the dude that replaced the congresswomen from Atlanta who hit the security guard with her cell phone?
Wow, that must be some kind’ve district in Atlanta. If I were to guess, I’d say it isn’t Buckhead.
Another astonishing thing, while the congressman is flailing about for basic geographic facts about an island, isn’t there a computer right in front of him? Too stupid for Google?
Being a Democrat, its possible we are witnessing the ravages of an advanced syphillitic state. Just saying is all.
Ummm…a quick google search indicates that analysis was about the 2000 Presidential election. It should have been entirely clear that it was not 2008, considering Obama won 28 states (plus DC and NE 2).
Massa and now a guy who worries about an island tipping over? No wonder they passed the health care bill without reading it. Obama probably told these guys it was the dinner menu. What can go wrong seems to be the only response.
Watch the video again. Note how earnestly the congresscritter searches in vain for the words Narrow, and Width.
Weep with me.
Maybe the other side of the island is nicer, and the locals would prefer it. Maybe it’s full of comfy marshmallow rocks and pretty pink unicorns.
Unfortunately that info has been Snoped and it is misattributed to that professor. Also, the numbers correspond to the 2000 election, probably not to 2008. I’m sure the actual figures are similar, but let’s be fair when possible.
It’s too painful to watch again. Any second rate assistant manager would come to a meeting prepared to talk about the basics.
Oh, Good Lord. Hong Kong has orders of magnitude greater population density than Guam and it does just fine. Of course, there will be environmental impacts, but they will be manageable.
People need to stop being such babies about this stuff.
As do the British and Japanese home islands.
I’m less worried about Guam tipping over than I am it floating off the edge of the Earth.
“The island is 7 miles at its narrow part and 12 miles at it’s widest. I don’t don’t know, does anyone know how many square miles this island is?”
Gee, I dunno, Hank. Gotta wait until my fourth-grader gets home from school and she can do the math for us….
At this point, I demand random drug screening for all federal employees. Then we can concentrate on building a set of outriggers for Guam.
Everyone pitch in People! Save Guam from tipping over!
Giant sales and a rudder! Instead of visiting Guam this year, Guam can visit me!
If the island tips over, will the locals find all their lost change?
Thanks for the link, cicerokid. There are many good suggestions there.
Hey isn’t Manhattan an island? How about that density? Still, not as dense as our esteemed representative from Atlanta.
The problem with politics is that an armadillo can get elected if you can dress it up and make it look good on TV. There are no standards or minimum qualifications for these slugs and this is what you get.
No, that would be better. A congress of Texas roadkill would be a step in the right direction.
zyzzyg well then … you said it a lot better than he did or could.
These guys need to be held to a higher standard. He should be embarrassed.
There are minimum standards, but the FF didn’t think they had to mention an IQ over flatline. For that matter, they hadn’t even heard of IQs.
Johnson had better be careful – if he tips his head too far to the side, his brain might slip out of his ear…zing.
In all seriousness – it should not be legal for someone so stupid to hold the position of a federal official
Does anyone know a sack of hammers intereted in tutoring this guy?
chapoutier said:
You Lie
I hope this goes viral for the Marines and US Navy “corpsemen” to see.
Thanks, Michelle. It is hard not to believe that this is an April Fool’s Joke.
Hysterical. He has to be drunk, as no one can be this stupid (does he think the earth is flat also? Does the island of Manhattan need to be evacuated… as it appears to be a bit lopsided and tilty in places).
Rep. Johnson is also an attorney. Go figure. This should be a commercial to warn others what happens if you vote Demoncrat, as your brain also gets heavy and tilts.
I certainly hope the people of Guam carefully plan balance into their day as to when you can be on one side of the island. With the global warming fears as well, they should all be on diets,too, otherwise there is danger of just sinking without the shift of balance. So there.
The liberal mind.
http://superstore.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=20&ITEM_ID=2285&ref1=email&ref2=0401TheLiberalMind
Bet you thought the answer was going to be 84 sq miles, didn’t you? It isn’t – it’s 209. In mild defense of the only thing the “Congressman” memorized, neither figure is the length, so you couldn’t deduce the area from just that. Also, it isn’t a rectangle so the math would be a bit more complicated. But the easiest way would be to just have his staff look it up and write it down along with the the other numbers he was reading.
Or he could pull up the Wikipedia page on the PC right in front of his face before he started running his mouth.
If it ever starts to tip, maybe everybody on the sinking side could jump at the same time lightening that side of the island!
Or if the island starts getting overcrowded, Congress could mandate that everybody carry a handful of helium ballons at all times.
Not to worry congressman, if the island starts tipping, our Navy will send a secret message to bring Mothra and Godzilla to protect the island.
Congressional District 4 Hank Johnson
This district in my home state of Georgia has been Gerrymandered at last three times in the last 12 years.
This is an incredibly reverse racist district with this as just one recent piece of evidence: http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/2-million-verdict-sought-422243.html
The notorious national embarrassment known as Cynthia McKinney literally owned this House Seat for approximately 16 years. McKinney quickly went to work having major traffic thoroughfares, post offices and schools named after her. Those blights on our district still exist.
The remarkable Republican takeover of the State House after 130 years of isolation allowed a couple of geographical changes to this district. A black female Republican candidate held this seat for two years when she ill advisedly chose to run for US Senator after her rookie 2-year stint in congress.
Then Hank Johnson came in and ousted the venerable Ms McKinney the last two elections after the local electorate was worn totally down from her antics during the Bash Bashing years. Last word from McKinney was she was temporarily held in an Israeli jail for violating the blockade of GAZA trying to export non-allowable supplies. She is a best friend with Madea Benjamin the famous code-pinko, “trust funder” who has never worked an honest employed day of work in her life.
Now we have an excellent female Republican on the primary ticket by the name of
Liz Carter
http://www.lizcarterforcongress.com/
She will need incredible backing and financial support to win the primary and any general election she may be fortunate enough to compete in. I urge any female conservative candidate supporters, people whom like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman take a look at this candidate and give her any and all support she deserves.
yay! Mothra!!
In the Congressman’s defense – he’s apparently under treatment for Hepatitis-C.
But that just means that his staff should be working harder to prevent him from appearing to be such a fool – and he probably shouldn’t have any committee assignments while under treatment.
I’m not too sure the guy in the tie behind the esteemed Naval gentleman isn’t laughing right after the infamous ‘capsize’ statement…
“…I’m concerned from an environmental standpoint…”
because I get my best weed from there…
Not being a doctor, and wishing to be fair, is it hepatitis that makes one idiotic or the treatment?
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HI ARIZONANEANDERTHAL–#10. Good list of the real racist “caucuses” in our Congress. They don’t represent the American People–they “represent” their special interest groups as they get rich at taxpayer expense. And they act like the participants in the Alice In Wonderland Caucus Race event–when in fear, when in doubt–yell and scream, and run about!
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It’s a good thing a WHITE CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESS doesn’t exist–it would be tarred as racist if it represented the largest “ethnic” group in the U.S.A. And it would be pointless–we don’t hate anybody, and aren’t out to “redistribute” (aka STEAL) other people’s wealth, work, and futures.
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John Bibb
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Dementia from hep c? This man is under the influence and should not be in that seat.
Out of concern for our country and morons like this making major decision for our country.
I will try to look at this as if he was making just a really bad joke that no one understood the punchline!
Other than that I cease to have a reason to live in the US any longer
I think if islands could tip over from over-population, Manhattan would have been in the Atlantic long ago. Perhaps we can send about 25 copies of Obama’s health care bill to Guam, and that might do it. I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that this idiot actually votes on legislation. This is one of the most imbecilic things Ive ever heard a congressman say.
Typical liberal congressman. Drunk and insane. Nothing to see here.
I watched that in total disbelief. How did this guy manage to fill out the form to run for public office? Who ties his shoes in morning?
If Guam was going to tip over from too many people, I’m sure it would have happened during the Vietnam war when we had hundreds of B-52′s and thousand of support personnel on the north end. Not to mention that massive naval station on the south end. Course maybe having one on each end kept it gently balanced, bobbing on the waves.
How that Admiral kept a straight face I’ll never know. I’m sure I would have made some kind of smart a** comment, like “with all due respect congressman, were you born this stupid or have you been taking lessons from an idiot?”
There was a battle there in 1944.
I didn’t know dementia was a side effect of Hep-C. Does Andrew Sullivan suffer from that, too?
I hope this poor soul doesn’t yell, “racism”. That would mean he considers himself a black person, which would be an insult to the black race, except to the people who voted him in office.
walterc said:
Al Franken?
FIFY
Good fix babiesgrandma.
This is your brain on Obamacare.
He just doesn’t know when to stop! What a MORON!
The kids who talked like that in my school were the same kids who hung in the park next to the school smoking “special cigarettes”…
This clown is in Congress?
Shouldn’t the floor of the House be a “Drug Free Zone?”
What’s the big deal here? Democrats say that kind of reality disconnected garbage all of the time.
Sure, this one was particularly funny, since we know no important decision is actually going to be based on it, but it’s hardly unusual. It’s really quite typical of Democrat thinking.
Take AGW, for instance. Or controlling the border by flinging it open. Or saving money by covering more patients.
Democrats are just plain nuts. All of them.
And this guy replaced Cynthia McKinney?
Ok, Georgia 4th, that’s two strikes against you. One more and we vote you off the island, lest it capsize from an overpopulation of stupidity.
The anchor which keeps the island from floating away would keep it from tipping over.
s/off
I am expecting the “it was a joke” defense liberals use when they say something mindbendingly stupid. (*cough* Sheryl Crowe *cough*)
WTF is in the water in the district this idiot is from? My god they repalced one idiot with a bigger idiot! This is why the federal government needs to get our of the public school systems!
Good thing for Rep. Johnson that today is April Fool’s Day, and he gets an automatic pass!
Let’s all come up with replies we all WISH the esteemed gentleman from the navy had responded with.
Mine: “Um, Congressperson Johnson, does your village know you’re here, or have they found someone else to assume your duties?”
Guam’s precarious situation must be due to that earthquake in Hawaii, eh?
LOL, right. The Congresscritter is stumped over a most basic math exercise.
(Sigh) For the benefit of Rep. Johnson… Here’s one way you can derive a reasonable first-pass blind estimate: 20 miles in length (from memory here) x avg width 9.5 miles ([12+7]/2) = 190 miles (square, of course). Which is 492 sqr km. These guesses are reasonably close to the actual area estimates derived through formal mapping/surveying (544 km sqr – per CIA Factbook online). Difference between the two estimates is about 10% overall, so it is a useful ballpark estimate.
Called it!!111!!!
I understand that we have a system where the military answers to the civilians. Being a Marine vet and a lover of this nation, I like that system. And I understand that not everyone elected to serve has worn a uniform in the past. I also don’t have to much of a problem with that.
But is it to much to ask that the civilians on the Armed services committees that the military has to answer to have some clue of what they are talking about? Why is it that when it comes to committees that deal with the security of this nation, armed services, intelligence, etc, we allow complete idiots oversight of things they have no experience with and no clue about?
And to make matters worse, this man also sits on the judiciary committee. So not only does he have a hand in the security of this nation directly, he has a hand in what kind of judges we get among other things.
According to the house website:
That we elect men like this, and give them such responsibility, is frightening. I mourn for my fellow citizens who are to lazy to do the minimum ammount of research before walking into a voting booth.