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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWolf just reduced Marsha Blackburn to a stammering fool
over her claim that her town hall was full of outside agitators.
Only voters from her district were allowed to RSVP, IDs were checked as people entered, and she asked for a show of hands of people from her district before she took a single question.
She stuttered and stammered something about being told that there were a lot of out of state plates on the cars in the parking lot.
Skittles
(153,147 posts)like most bullies, she is a coward
flygal
(3,231 posts)Skittles
(153,147 posts)yes indeed
calimary
(81,220 posts)With or without the chicken head.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)She cannot blame Wolf Blitzer.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Warpy
(111,245 posts)She's always a stammering fool when somebody forces her off script.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)RowdieTurtle
(37 posts)Heres what shes done and what she believes:
She opposed the Affordable Care Act, stating that with the passage of the bill, "freedom dies a little bit today." When pressed by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on the claim that the legislation included "death panels" for the elderly, she would not reject this assertion despite the fact that it had been "... widely debunked by fact-checking journalism organizations".
Famously put Al Gore on the spot about his business interests in the energy industry. Gore vociferously refuted the implied accusation, pointing out that every penny he makes from renewable technology investment goes to a non-profit.
In April 2008, Blackburn summoned reporters to explain that she had found errors in her Federal Election Commission filings going back several years and had failed to report $286,278 in expenditures, including $18,821 to a fundraising consulting company run by her son-in-law, Paul Ketchel. She also failed to report $102,044 in contributions.
In 2008, Blackburn was named one of the "Most Corrupt Members of Congress" by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, although the Federal Election Commission unanimously rejected CREW's complaint.
Blackburn issued a "Statement on Stem Cell Research" in 2008. In this statement, Blackburn claimed there was an "absence of evidence that could justify the continued research into embryonic stem cells." She added that "no journals have published successful embryonic studies" (many such studies had been published in the preceding years) and "research tells us adult stem cells are equivalent or superior to embryonic stem cells", a claim stem cell biologists reject.
In 2013, she was chosen to manage debate on a bill promoted by House Republicans which would criminalize all abortions after 22 weeks' gestation, with limited exceptions for rape or incest.
At October 2013 congressional hearings on the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare", Blackburn charged that the health.gov website violated HIPAA and health information privacy rights. The next day, when a CNN interviewer pointed out that the only health-related question that the web site asks is "do you smoke?", Blackburn repeated her criticism of the site for violating privacy rights.
She is a staunch opponent of Net neutrality in the United States and municipal broadband initiatives. As of March 2015 her campaign has accepted at least $221,900 from contributors in the telecommunications industry. These include AT&T and Comcast who have strongly lobbied against net neutrality. She supported bills that restrict municipalities from creating their own broadband networks, and wrote a bill to prevent the FCC from interfering on behalf of communities.
On February 16, 2014, Blackburn appeared on NBC's Meet The Press as a guest in a climate change segment alongside Bill Nye. She reiterated a belief that scientists do not sufficiently understand the climate to make long term predictions, and argued that a cost/benefit analysis did not support taking any action against further carbon emission increases. In 2015, Blackburn shared her belief that the world has been cooling instead of warming.
Skittles
(153,147 posts)she really is a nutcase
Welcome to DU, RowdieTurtle
lapucelle
(18,250 posts)Benghazi hearing and Hillary's continued laughter right in her face ("I don't see anything funny!" after Marsha played the grand inquisitor by asking the former SOS whether she was "alone for the whole night" after the attack.
underpants
(182,769 posts)Consistently WRONG
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)had been overturned
That was "Mean" Jean Schmidt from Ohio. Although Marsha is just a dumb.
calimary
(81,220 posts)This is a great post! MOST informative to have all those dates and details included in one sitting. Care to make it an OP, where more people can see it?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)lapucelle
(18,250 posts)But I'll post video or a transcript when it becomes available.
Wolf played Marsha like a fiddle. He wouldn't let her off the hook, and then seemed to let go, only to suddenly come right back at her with video of her calling for a show of hands of people from her district and the confused yet incredulous line of questioning that he's so good at.
lapucelle
(18,250 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)putitinD
(1,551 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)CNN was on in the Cafe television and couldn't believe what a whinging, sad piece of work she was. I wanted to throw something at her. I've never really seen her before and I hope I never do again.
madaboutharry
(40,207 posts)She was a fashion and image consultant. It's true.
adigal
(7,581 posts)Today, I enjoyed the interview. It was lovely. My blood pressure didn't go up. I need to go thank Wolf on CNN twitter.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)The stammering is frosting on the cake.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Senators and Reps are expected to put the country's needs first, and that includes all 320 million of us. For instance, I no longer live in Jason "Chapped-Ass" Chaffetz's district anymore (Thank the FSM!!), but that doesn't mean I don't have a stake in the decisions he makes as head of the House committee he chairs. Just because I don't directly vote against him anymore doesn't mean that my voice over his treason must remain silent.
This is my take, at least...
lapucelle
(18,250 posts)LisaM
(27,801 posts)The whole country should be up in arms about him.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)IS a 21st century WITCH, and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible.
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)cab67
(2,992 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)If they do, they're obviously not 'real Americans.' See how that works?