Uh, wait, so "no" means "some"?

Hehe. Not that I care, but it'll be fun to watch the fallout locally. (If you don't want to click, the House refused to name the post office after Maudelle Shirek)

But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who led the opposition, said Shirek's background "sets her apart from, I will say, the most consistent of American values."

King gave no details in a speech on the House floor beyond citing Shirek's support for freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. In an interview later he said Shirek had an "affiliation with the Communist Party," citing her sponsorship of a Marxist library.

Those sound suspiciously like details. "The suspect gave no ID beyond providing his driver's license and US Passport." "The set {1,2,3,4} contains no even numbers beyond 2 and 4." "The meal provided no protein beyond the steak and beans." (Beans have protein, right?)

Not that King is afraid to dig himself a real hole.

"I think that if Barbara Lee would read the history of Joe McCarthy she would realize that he was a hero for America," King said of the senator who launched investigations into alleged communist sympathizers in the 1950s but was ultimately censured by the Senate. King said Hoover, the former FBI director, "was a giant when it came to law enforcement."

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 9/27/2005 08:58:00 PM #
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