Posts Tagged ‘compares’

Congressman Compares Gun Registration to Genocide

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) warned that “a national gun registry would be similar to a database used by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda in the 1990s to locate and slaughter members of an opposing tribe in a genocide that killed up to one million people,” The Hill reports. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This [...]

Michigan GOP Leader Compares Gays to Alcoholics

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema continues to warn parents about the “filthy lifestyle” of homosexuals, saying that Christians should help people “get out of it,” MLive reports. Tweet This Post

Rep. Peter King Compares North Korean Government to ‘Organized Crime Family’

Below you can find some of the notable comments made Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Political roundtable guests included former Newark Mayor Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; ABC News political analyst and special correspondent Matthew Dowd; ABC News senior Washington correspondent… Tweet This Post

Sarah Palin Compares Obama to Bernie Madoff, Sips From a Big Gulp and Jokes About Her (Gun) ‘Rack’

Sarah Palin served up a generous helping of conservative red meat today, comparing President Obama to white-collar criminal Bernie Madoff, mocking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his support of a jumbo soda ban and criticizing the GOP’s post-election attempt at “putting a fresh coat… Tweet This Post

Lawmaker Compares Gun Control to Castration

Illinois state Rep. Jim Sacia (R) went on an epic tirade against Democratic legislators for forcing gun control on the entire state to deal with Chicago’s “run away gun problem” and said the state’s gun control laws are akin to asking him to get “castrated” because Chicagoans are having too many babies. Tweet This Post

Lawmaker Compares Homosexuality to Heroin Addiction

Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) told TMZ that teaching people how to protect themselves from HIV was an attempt to push the gay agenda “down everybody’s throats.” Tweet This Post

Idaho Lawmaker Compares Abortion and Prostitution

Idaho Rep. Ron Mendive (R) “drew audible gasps” when he asked representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union if their pro-abortion rights stance also means that they support prostitution, the AP reports. Tweet This Post