By Jim Stanford on March 19, 2007
A few weeks ago I posted a spoof story about Barbara Cubin declaring the Earth is flat, following her real-life denial of global warming in a News&Guide article the week before.
The reaction to the spoof was surprising. A fair number of people — intelligent, discerning people who read the news — inquired whether the story was real.
While that might be a credit to the satire, it’s a sad statement on just how little esteem Cubin is held in by her constituents, who recognize that there seems to be no limit to the depths of ignorance to which she will sink.
The Wyoming congresswoman is at it again. Last week she voted against a bill that would restore timely release of presidential and vice presidential records.
Here’s an account from the blog Down With Tyranny:
The House overwhelmingly passed Waxman’s Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, 333-93. Not one Democratic congressman voted against it and only the worst rubber-stamp partisans among Republicans backed Bush and Cheney on this. Even one of the worst right-wing extremists in the whole Congress, Roy Blunt, their whip, broke ranks with Bush on this one and voted with Speaker Pelosi. This is how the bill is described on Pelosi’s Web site:
Overturning the Bush Executive Order. Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records are supposed to be released to historians and the public 12 years after the end of a presidential administration. In November 2001, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233, which overturned an executive order issued by President Reagan and gave current and former presidents and vice presidents broad authority to withhold presidential records or delay their release indefinitely. The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 would nullify the Bush executive order and establish procedures to ensure the timely release of presidential records.
Among the far right loons who voted in favor of keeping information away from historians and the public are all the usual villains: Duncan Hunter (CA), John Kline (MN), Joe Barton (TX), Michele Bachmann (MN), “Buck” McKeon (CA), Dan Lungren (CA), Don Young (AK), John Doolittle (CA), Marilyn Musgrave (CO), Mean Jean Schmidt (OH), Gary Miller (CA), Adam Putnam (FL), Tim Walberg (MI), Brian Bilbray (CA), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Denny Hastert (IL), Steve King (IA), Thelma Drake (VA), John Boehner (OH), Barbara Cubin (WY), Lynn Westmoreland (GA), Heather Wilson (NM), “Doc” Hastings (WA), James Sensenbrenner (WI), Doug Lamborn (CO), Jim McCrery (LA), Patrick McHenry (NC), Sue Myrick (NC), Virginia Foxx (NC), Tom Tancredo (CO), and the 3 far right Rogers (AL, MI and KY).
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In her recent remarks about the Iraq war and the need for escalation, Cubin has displayed a third-grader’s understanding of the conflict.
Either we win, or totally lose, she has emphasized.
It’s been the same way for the citizens of Wyoming since 1994. Even though Democrats have come close to unseating her in the last two elections, there are no moral victories. Just a complete loss for Wyoming.
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Did you take that picture of her? I lover her Cheney-esque lip curl.
I did take that photo, at a Housing Trust event in my neighborhood, of all places. She was so thrilled to meet me as she went around the table, shaking hands.
And believe it or not, this was the BEST image of her from the shoot!