April 25, 2011, - 2:30 pm
Meet Congressman Amash, Tea Party Palestinian Putz; NPR, Planned Parenthood Wimp
When the Republicans failed to eliminate taxpayer money to NPR a/k/a National Palestinian Radio and Planned Parenthood, I decried it on this site. One of those you can thank for this is new Congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan who enjoyed Tea Party support. He just couldn’t bring himself to vote against those, and his reasoning is as stupid as they come. More on that below. As you’ll recall, I wrote about Amash and how he campaigned on, among other things, “a Palestinian state with contiguous borders,” meaning that Gaza and the so-called West Bank should be connected via more usurpation of Israeli land, Israeli homes, Israeli farms, and Israeli property. That’s no surprise, given that Amash brags of his Palestinian and Syrian Arab heritage and belongs to the anti-Israel Orthodox Church.
Congressman Justin Amash: The GOP’s/Tea Party’s Putz
But Amash, a career politician and spoiled rich kid–whose family spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get him elected, has shown he’s just as much of a putz on domestic policy as he is on foreign policy.
In the last three months, nearly 20 members have availed themselves of a “present” or two over the course of about 272 votes.
Then there’s Justin Amash, the newly elected, 30-year-old west Michigan Republican fresh from one term in the state House.
He has had 17 “present” votes . . . . They’ve come on votes big and small — on measures to strip federal funding for National Public Radio, for instance, or to slash money to Planned Parenthood.
Amash claims he voted “present” instead of against funding NPR and Planned Parenthood because he believes the votes
are unconstitutional because they single out the organizations. “It’s not saying, ‘We don’t like subsidizing speech,’ it’s saying, ‘We don’t like subsidizing NPR,’ ” he said.
HUH?! Absurd. Virtually every single piece of legislation considered by Congress singles out organizations. How the heck does he think that NPR and Planned Parenthood got taxpayer money in the first place, and not, say, conservative websites and pro-life organizations. Did Amash stop to think for a second that by his same reasoning it might be unconstitutional, in the first place, to single out NPR and Planned Parenthood–two organizations with obvious left-wing agendas–to specifically receive money from the federal government as items in the budget?
This dumbass behavior has garnered Amash kudos from the liberal New York Times, including a gushing piece the newspaper of record did on him. Shocker.
But, like I said, Amash received overwhelming support from the Tea Partiers. Where are they now? Still cheering him on. Why? Ask them. Clearly, at least in the case of Amash, they can’t bring themselves to say, “Hey, we were wrong supporting this Palestinian Islamo-sympathizing NPR and Planned Parenthood supporter who is wimpier than any Congressman in the House.”
The real conservative in the primary in Amash’s safe Republican district was Bill Hardiman, a Republican State Senator, a Vietnam Vet, a Christian Minister and Israel-supporter who gets it on Islam, and a principled conservative who happens to be Black. Hardiman is a truly great American and a patriot if there ever was one. He was the guy, but Tea Partiers, instead, chose a young moron in Amash. (I wish I’d done more to help the very worthy Hardiman.)
I’m all for Republicans courting the young, as they are the future of the country and tending more and more liberal (and stupid). But it’s no coincidence that this jerk, Amash, is the second youngest Congressman currently serving. Younger elected officials who’ve never had a real job in their lives are the worst elected officials and the most out of touch.
That’s definitely the case with Justin Amash, a guy who can’t bring himself to “single out” Planned Parenthood and NPR for an end to government funding, when they were singled out to get it in the first place.
Whatta putz.
Tags: Anti-Israel, Arab, Bill Hardiman, budget, congressman, federal funding, GOP, Justin Amash, National Public Radio, New York Times, NPR, Orthodox Church, Palestinian, Planned Parenthood, present, Professor, Republican, Syrian, Tea Party, Voting Present
You know what DS and everybody else on this site, this dude, Justin Amash is about the same age as me (his age is 30 as Schlussel pointed out). Your right Debbie, the young politicans who are in their prime years (like me and Mr. Amash) NEVER had a real job in their lives (just like Obama) and tend to be out of touch on what’s really happening around them. As for the Tea Partiers, question, why the hell are they supporting this guy, he happens to be pro-Palestinian, pro-Islamic, & anti-Isreal don’t see who this guy really is? Didn’t the top people in the TPM acknowledged his records and exactly where he stands? As DS also pointed out on this article, Justin Amash is also pro-NPR and pro-Planned Parenthood (the founder of that organization in her day made all sorts of belitting and racist comments about black people and said that blacks should be eradicated from civilization, etc.).
BTW, speaking of the TPM (I don’t mean to harp on them and get on their case but it’s what I see and learning) how come they didn’t have their rallies a few weeks ago? Or if they had rallies, how come the media didn’t report it? Debbie and everybody else, it’s not just the GOP and islamist front groups who are co-opting the TPM, but from what I’ve heard, their have been a few conservative talk show host and some conservative bloggers (not Debbie Schlussel) who are also co-opting the movement (for instance, Andrew Breitbart)!
“A nation is defined by it’s borders, language & culture!”
Sean R. on April 25, 2011 at 4:56 pm