And his name is Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga. He appeared on "The Colbert Report" last night. Crooks and Liars has the transcript:
COLBERT: You have not introduced a single piece of legislation since you entered Congress.
WESTMORELAND: That's correct.
COLBERT: This has been called a do nothing Congress. Is it safe to say you're the do nothingest?
WESTMORELAND: I, I, ..Well there's one other do nothiner. I don't know who that is, but they're a Democrat.
COLBERT: What can we get rid of to balance the budget?
WESTMORELAND: The Dept. of Education.
COLBERT: What are the Ten Commandments?
WESTMORELAND: You mean all of them?--Um... Don't murder. Don't lie. Don't steal Um... I can't name them all.
That last exchange is lovely because he's a co-sponsor of various bills letting the Ten Commandments be displayed in government buildings. To find the text of the bills, check Thomas for "Ten Commandments" or specifically H RES. #214 and H CON. RES. #12.
He also was caught distributing auto-industry talking points verbatim to colleagues under his own letterhead, without attribution.
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3 comments:
I saw that show....simply hilarious. And a sad indictment of what kind of idiots get elected to Congress, especially in southern conservative Republican districts. Words can't describe how pathetic it is to co-sponsor a bill about the almighty Ten Commandments and not even know more than three of them.
- Caracarn
Then Colbert was wrong. If the guy has co-sponsored bills, he's introduced legislation.
The entire exchange is silly. Who would go on this guy's program?
JP5
Who would go on this guy's program?
An excellent question. Which again doesn't cast Westmoreland's intelligence in a favorable light....
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