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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur scary new Congress: Meet 5 Tea Party extremists taking office this month
Jody Hice, Cory Gardner, Joni Ernst (Credit: AP/John Amis/Brennan Linsley/Charlie Neibergall)
Salon looks at five of the most extreme Republicans taking power in Washington this month.
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Our scary new Congress: Meet 5 Tea Party extremists taking office this month (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jan 2015
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If a sports team had traded Udall for Gardner, they would be the joke of the league.
world wide wally
Jan 2015
#4
Archae
(46,343 posts)1. One of them is my congressman.
Glenn Grothman.
Couple friends and I have a pool going as to how long until he makes a total ass of himself on the House floor.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)2. I feel your pain.
Gardner is my burr under the saddle. As congressman, he only had one district to ignore. Now he gets to ignore the entire state, seeing as how his first allegiance is to the Koch brothers.
Mass
(27,315 posts)3. VA-07, David Brat
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/06/11/3447712/david-brat-embrace-christian-capitalism-or-hitler-will-come-back/
Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality. Read Nietzsche. Nietzsches diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on. Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dave-brat-bbt-moral-foundations-of-capitalism
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/12/ayn_randian_wingnut_goes_to_washington_the_scary_economic_thinking_of_dave_brat_partner/
Brat, youll be delighted to hear, is an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College who counts the fantastically nutty Ayn Rand as his intellectual hero. Not another one! Paul Ryan was about as much Randian baloney as we could swallow. But there could be another course coming: As Samantha Lachman reported, the professor gets dough from the banking sector to push Rands libertarian nonsense on college students:
Brat has taught classes for a program sponsored by BB&T bank that aims to spread Ayn Rands principles to college students. Brat got a $500,000 grant from the bank to bring the program to Randolph-Macon College and co-authored a paper titled An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand.
Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality. Read Nietzsche. Nietzsches diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on. Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dave-brat-bbt-moral-foundations-of-capitalism
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/12/ayn_randian_wingnut_goes_to_washington_the_scary_economic_thinking_of_dave_brat_partner/
Brat, youll be delighted to hear, is an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College who counts the fantastically nutty Ayn Rand as his intellectual hero. Not another one! Paul Ryan was about as much Randian baloney as we could swallow. But there could be another course coming: As Samantha Lachman reported, the professor gets dough from the banking sector to push Rands libertarian nonsense on college students:
Brat has taught classes for a program sponsored by BB&T bank that aims to spread Ayn Rands principles to college students. Brat got a $500,000 grant from the bank to bring the program to Randolph-Macon College and co-authored a paper titled An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)4. If a sports team had traded Udall for Gardner, they would be the joke of the league.