Ann Marie's New Friends

Ann Marie has joined 14 other Congresspeople to co-sponsor her first bill in Congress:

Better Use of Light Bulbs Act or BULB Act, H.R. 91. [not making this up]

15 Co-sponsors Reintroduced the Bill this week. Let us see who Ann Marie's new friends are:

Todd Akin, R-Missouri

This guy is a superior class act. 

He wants a Constitutional Amendment barring marriage for gay people.

He likes to make lynching jokes about Democrats.

He blew the Pledge of Allegiance at a protest on the Missouri Capital steps.

Joe Barton, R-Texas

This is the guy who apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward. 

Reminds me of when Harry Whittington, Dick Cheney's "friend",  apologized to Cheney for being in the way of his drug-induced shotgun blast. I think "ingratiate" is the word.

Rob Bishop, R-Utah

Votes 100% pro business.

Voted NO on reducing greenhouse gasses

Made the Club for Growth happy 91% of the time.

Made Gun Owners of America totally happy; Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, zero.

Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee

Leading the charge against the Clean Air Act (again).

Paul Broun, R-Georgia

Believes President Obama is a Marxist.

"I tell ya, we’ve got some new problems in Washington. Big problems. Just today, Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said people in America are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. They want to give all the power to the federal government to force you to eat more fruits and vegetables. This is what the federal, CDC, they gonna be calling you to make sure you eat fruits and vegetables, every day. This is socialism of the highest order!"

Screw loose, threads stripped.

Our Own Gal...Ann Marie Buerkle, R-New York

Showed her respect and compassion for women by bringing a foetus in a jar to a demonstration confronting women going into Planned Parenthood in Syracuse. She says that was years ago and her priorities are different now. That is totally scary.

Michael Burgess, R-Texas

Would like to be able to build a nuke in his back yard if he wants to. Suck on that, Federal Government.

Dan Burton, R-Indiana

Voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act which gives workers the right to file a discrimination claim late against the workplace if they waited until they actually found out they had been discriminated against. No mother? No wife? No sisters? No daughters?

Howard Coble, R-North Carolina

[I am getting a little tired of looking at pictures of older white guys]

Beware anything called The Freedom Project

Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming

"U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis said Friday that some of her Wyoming constituents are so worried about the reinstatement of federal estate taxes that they plan to discontinue dialysis and other life-extending medical treatments so they can die before Dec. 31." ...in case you ever wondered about the meaning of the word "hyperbole."

Tom McClintock, R-California

Pro-life and pro-capital punishment. This combination always puzzles me.

Ron Paul, R-Texas

Gun Owners of America give him a 100% approval rating.

Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana 

On Cap and Trade: “We’re setting up a global warming Gestapo.” What is it with the knee jerk comparisons with Hitler?

Another Congress member who thinks science is piffle. Asked whether he worries that he could be wrong [about doubting climate change], Scalise cited an “increasing number of scientists who are raising major questions about the global warming theories.” Read: is being paid to believe lies of coal interests.

Cliff Stearns, R-Florida

Votes 100% of the time for Right to Life issues.

On Energy and Commerce Committee: can you guess who his major contributors are?

Member of Michelle Bachman's Tea Party Caucus in the House

Don Young, R-Alaska

On the BP oil spill: "This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon."                                              
On global warming: "It's a scam."

Dim.