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Pierce: Every Republican Turning on Steve King Was Grown in the Same Terrarium
Every Republican Turning on Steve King Was Grown in the Same Terrarium
Republicans are ignoring the real facts about King.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JAN 15, 2019
We tried. Chris Hayes, and April Ryan, and I tried very hard to pull Rep. Steve King (R-Berchtesgarden) back from the shoals toward which he was merrily sailing. Helm up, Steve! Hard over!
Too late.
And now, in the oft-quoted words of Micheal Ray Richardson, the ship be sinking. From the New York Times:
House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism and contain damage from comments Mr. King made to The New York Times questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive...Mr. King, who has been an ally of President Trump on the border wall and other issues, has a long history of making racist remarks and insults about immigrants, but has not drawn rebukes from Republican leaders until recently. In November, top Iowa Republicans like Senator Charles E. Grassley endorsed Mr. King for re-election even after one House Republican official came out and denounced him as a white supremacist.
So Kevin McCarthy, the Minority Leader of the House, moved on King, which gives us another chance to toss an elbow at former Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from the state of Wisconsin. Ryan was perfectly fine with having an outright white-supremacist in his caucus for more than a decade because Ryan never found the political gumption to bring the wild kingdom there under control.
Many Republicans—including Willard Romney—have now piled on as well. (Ted Cruz, whose Iowa campaign in 2016 King helped run, puffed out some nondescript squid ink over the weekend.) None of them, of course, have addressed the real facts about Steve King—namely, that he was nurtured and produced in the same conservative Republican terrarium as all the rest of them, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy included. King bloomed more lushly and more exotically, but he's of the same genus. Now, they're all required to pretend that they never understood how this lethally poisonous plant sprouted in their midst. I wonder how long the delusion can last. I've been wondering that for three decades now.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25902076/steve-king-kevin-mccarthy-mitt-romney/
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The Onion, of course, with another satirical depiction of Republican reality.
Below is King's famous offering in 2013, by which time a majority of IA-14's voters had already rewarded him by electing and reelecting him 5 times. As for the long-suffering decent people he's supposed to be representing, hope they can get some satisfaction out of this.
