A couple of years ago I was enjoying a cold beer on my back porch when our front doorbell rang. I went to the door and was greeted by a toothy fellow in a suit who seemed very eager to shake my hand. Behind this smirking jerk stood a teenager holding a clipboard and wearing a nice tie. I was about to have my first and only personal encounter with Joe Carr, candidate for the House of Representatives.
Rep. Joe "This here's a microphone" Carr
Joe handed me a flyer that listed his core beliefs and his campaign promises and then asked for my vote in the upcoming election. I asked for a moment to review the flyer, then told him I didn't see a single thing on it with which I agreed. He seemed stunned, but never stopped grinning.
"Seriously? Nothing?"
"Nope. Not a damn thing. I'm afraid you've come to the only house in this part of the state where you won't find a Republican voter."
Then I asked about the kid with the clipboard, and was told that he was a campaign worker and an intern with Carr's campaign. I shook the kid's hand, then offered him some advice:
"I think it's great to see young people taking an interest in politics. I worked a campaign when I was about to turn eighteen, and then voted in my first presidential election later that year. It was transformative for me, and I've been involved in politics ever since. Keep your eyes open, and keep an open mind to new ideas!"
Carr won handily, despite my vote for the other guy. And he's been an embarrassment to Murfreesboro and Tennessee ever since. I hope the kid with the clipboard has been paying attention...
Yesterday Rep. Joe Carr (R-Murfreesboro) introduced a bill to make it a misdemeanor for federal authorities to make any attempt to enforce President Obama's gun control efforts. In his statement, Carr explained that Tennesseans have a right "to defend themselves from tyranny."
Carr went on to say that Obama's executive orders and his gun control proposals were unconstitutional.
Irony is lost on some people.
It's unconstitutional for local authorities to defy federal law, and it's unconstitutional for them to consider criminal charges against federal law enforcement officers who are carrying out orders of the President.
But this asshat doesn't care about the Constitution. Not really. He cares about hopping on that Pander Express before it leaves the Hooterville depot... That's why he was front and center at a 2nd Amendment "Rally and Pistol Shoot" last week here in town, sponsored by State Representative Mike Sparks. Joe Carr wants to be seen whenever teabagger types are gathered in sufficient numbers, especially if they're encouraged to bring their "own guns and ammo" to the event.
Heavy sigh...
We all know that asking folks to submit to background checks before purchasing firearms is the first step down a slippery slope leading to Hitler and Pol Pot, right?
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I feel for guys like you who are in such a small minority I really do.
That is either hysterical or tragic. or both.
Laughing @ "Seriously? Nothing?"
There is simply no way that a federal criminal ban on enforcing federal law is constitutional.
Tin-uh-see Pride.
Leslie, it's hard not to be ashamed of these trolls, isn't it?
Even our Democrats are eyebrow raisers. Just read where Cooper was the only Dem in the House to vote against the Sandy relief package, because it wasn't "paid for"... like that matters in a crisis. Did they "pay for" the flood relief Cooper wanted for middle Tennessee back in '10 when Nashville went under the Cumberland?
Amazing what's happened to the state of Al Gore, Howard Baker, Ned McWhirter, Estes Kefauver, Cordell Hull...
Isn't Joe Carr the same mo'fo who SUPPORTED Scott DesJarlais's run for re-election .... then called for his resignation immediately AFTER DesJarlais' win ... THEN announced he is running for DesJarlais' seat in 2014? Perhaps we should check HIS birth certificate. Gotta be from Texas ....
Squatlo,
Indiana has a Republican controlled legislature and former US Representaive Mike Pence just took the oath of office as governor.
Remember the theocrat who tried to
ban abortion? Yeah, we have him.
Indiana could follow Tennessee and Kansas into states of madness...
Sarge
Squat. For starters, Mr. One Fly seems to be sipping the Kool Aid while reading Mitt Romney's polls. It's the gun-dumb in the minority nationwide who enjoy localized commonality of the interests that place a man's desire for certain firearms over public safety and basic common sense.
You boys talk so fucking big about we liberals standing on your misguided idea of what your "Rights" are, yet it is your basic ideology to stomp on actual human rights.
You talk about how the President is breaking the law with the same breath you advocate breaking the law.
Since we aren't at my place I won't tell you to fuck yourself. Instead, I'll ask you to open your heart and mind to the possibilities that your ideology is greed-based narcissism that could stand a healthy dose of the teachings of Jesus. Instead, I'll suggest that you see a psycho therapist to investigate why you feel so powerless over your life that you fear imaginary threats.
On subject, I thought you fucking Tennesseeans had already sent all of those asshats to Texas a century ago. Did you happen to catch Prick Perry's latest words on the subject?
Makes me want to add an minimum IQ requirement as part of the background checks.
And FUCK WALMART!!!
Mooner, I believe you mistook One Fly's sincerity for sarcasm. Trust me, he's on the right team! I've been talking back and forth with the man and he's got quite a story to tell (currently taking hikes and photos in Costa Rica as a resident). I'll tell him you were jumping down throats on behalf of sensible people and that he happened to be an innocent by-throater walking past...
And we did send our best to bail out your Texican revolution, but some of your shitheads migrated back, apparently...
Joe Carr would make Louie Gohmert and Rick Perry look like Mensa team members on a Jeopardy tourney by comparison. He's over-compensating for something, and I just assume it's a small penis or a domineering wife who beats him when no one's looking.
One Fly- It seems that I misread and malinterpreted your comment. I am sorry and apologize. It seems that this issue has my stinger on a very short-pull trigger.
Maybe all "T" states should be allowed to form their own union.
I just lost a huge comment and part of was no apology needed not even a little one Mooner.
I meant that comment in the sense no matter where you're at when you are in a district that votes these fucktards in you are basically surrounded by people who think like them. Like King in IA and bat Shit Bachman in Minnysota. It does seem to me Texas and Tennessee spawn more of these fucknuts.
Myself I make an effort to stay away from the likes of them when I can. Many say the Repuglican party is going to be a thing of the past. Don't make shit bit of difference as this country is sooo divided no way will or can it come together. These crazy fucks are allowed to frame the discussion much of the time because it's in the best interest of the 1% media and the 1% for that to be the case.
I enjoy listening to Driftglass and Bluegal's podcast on Friday's.
What's hard to swallow is we actually think for ourselves and where the dark side regurgitates Limbo Hannity and all the others talking points while the whores like Brooks on Sun morning shows scream how "both sides do it" and that we've all moved to the center.
I'm fucking sick of - been sick of it and there is no mercy for much of this.
I'm glad I ran across you guys. Have a good one!
One Fly, well said! Glad you aren't pissed at my buddy Mooner. (he's sort of exciteable when it comes to politics... which is why we click!)
I agree, things are so divided now that we're probably only going to come together if there's another terrorist attack or some natural disaster of epic size... and then it will only last long enough for us to start sniping at one another over our varied reactions to the tragedy.
But it's always been this was in America, if you look back at it. Americans were divided over WWII, just like they were divided over Vietnam. A lot of people thought we were late to the party when Europe was under the blitz, and it took an idiotic attack at Pearl Harbor to motivate the average American.
We're capable of great things, but hindered by our inability to agree on what they should be. That leaves us as a nation reacting to events instead of leading them in a predetermined direction.
Keep the comments coming and we'll sort it out later.
OH YEAH!??? Well I disagree with your perception of our inability to agree! In fact ... I disagree about AGREEING on anything! Im'a 'MURKAN, DAMMIT, and it's my Constitutional right to disagree about agreeing ... orr .... to agree about disagreeing ... whatever! And you commies are ALWAYS bringin' WWII into the conversation like it was a big deal or somethin'! And Rocky Marciano, TOO!
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