Joe McCarthy, the hero
From the San Francisco Chronicle:"House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a Democratic resolution to name a post office in Berkeley, Calif., after a longtime local activist and city councilwoman, saying 94-year-old Maudelle Shirek doesn't represent American values."
"Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who led the opposition, said Shirek's background "sets her apart from, I will say, the most consistent of American values.""
"Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who sponsored the resolution, rejected King's comments as unsubstantiated innuendo."
"'They are living in the days, I guess, of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover and decided they wanted to defeat a local district matter, and I think it's outrageous and unconscionable," Lee said in an interview."
""I think that if Barbara Lee would read the history of Joe McCarthy she would realize that he was a hero for America," King said of the senator who launched investigations into alleged communist sympathizers in the 1950s but was ultimately censured by the Senate. King said Hoover, the former FBI director, "was a giant when it came to law enforcement."
Wow. Where was I? Joe McCarthy the hero? This is an elected official who believes this. Maybe he spends too much time with Ann Coulter.
posted by Dave @ 7:47 PM
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