It’s been recently said that Senator Patty Murray-D, is the stupidest person in Washington. That seems incredibly unfair. Washington is big place and it attracts some of the stupidest people to be found anywhere, so pardon me I don’t just accept that Murray is the stupidest. There’s a lot of competition in D.C.! Okay, maybe we should go over a few of the many reasons she’s called stupid and see if the title holds up?
Murray said right after her election, “When I was growing up, the big fear in my life was the nuclear war. I remember second- and third-grade teachers giving us skills to deal with it, if that big alarm goes off, which was ‘Hide under your desk.’ Would that do any good? I don’t know. But as a child, that gives you a feeling there’s something to do beyond panic. Today the biggest fear our kids live with is whether … the kid beside them has a gun. We have to give them skills so they feel confident to deal with it.”
Whoa…lol….uh, deal with it? She wants to give kids skills to deal with what, avoiding being shot by leaping out of the way or maybe judo chopping an armed attacker into submission? What the heck is she talking about? No wonder dems try to keep this woman away from the microphone.
Right after 9-11 Murray said and I quote, “”He’s (Osama Bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He’s made their lives better.” OMG…what a stretch – what an idiot! Almost 20 years ago OBL helped build a road linking the capital, Khartoum, with Port Sudan and an airport. That’s about it and Murray has OBL building day care centers and health clinics and thats why he has devoted followers? This woman is a US Senator, unbelievable.
Murray’s major in college was “recreation” and she got her start in politics fighting to save her own government job…she was teaching a parenting class that was cancelled due to lack of attendance. That motivated her to run for office…what a shame, if we only knew she would go into politics we could have taken up a fund or something to keep her teaching instead…would have been cheaper!
“The highest-paying job I had before coming to Washington, D.C., paid $23,000 a year. … I know what it’s like to tell my kids they can’t buy everything they want.” Patty Murray. Oh brother, so now that she’s a Senator her kids CAN buy everything they want…makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Granted, these really are pretty stupid statements and if you couple them to her voting record she looks pretty darn stupid. So, who do you think is dumber and why, Maxine Waters, Mary Landrieu, Charles Rangel, how about Barbara Boxer? I’m thinking Boxer and if she gets re-elected the democrats of California would surtely be the world’s dumbest voters.
Boxer would take the prize for me. No achievements, no bills passed after a lifetime in government. She never visits her constituents here in the North State unless it’s a fundraiser with rich democrats. She’s disrespectful of military officers. She has no redeeming qualities, and will only get votes because she is another filthy rich democrat. Sadly, many of those voting for her are the working poor who are hurt the most by her anti-job policy positions. Which is why I am casting a vote for Carly Fiorina this year.
I honestly don’t see anything at all wrong with the first or third statements. Does that make me stupid too?
American Thinker said, “There is really no other conclusion: Harry Reid is not only an incompetent majority leader, but dumb. I thought Jay Rockefeller and Patty Murray were the two dimmest bulbs in the Senate, but Reid has sprinted to the front of the line. He was played by Rod Blagojevich, which isn’t easy after the Fitzgerald press conference a few weeks back. He came off looking like a racist by nixing 3 possible Senate appointees by Blago- Jesse Jackson, Jr., Danny Davis, and Emil Jones, even before he blocked the door of the Senate chamber to another African American, Roland Burris.”
I guess anyone in the public spotlight can look stupid from time to time but some of the blunders are serious. Like the time Senator Feinstein made a public statement about the deadly US drone bombings in Pakistan being launched from inside Pakistan. As the chairman of the Select Committe on Intelligence you would think she would know better. Her excuse was that it had been published by a newspaper…hardly the same as an official government voice!
Other all time favorites:
In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Im not joking. Joe Biden
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you dont, you get stuck in Iraq. John Kerry
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Al Gore
Were seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point they have lanes now where ships can go that couldnt ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, theres a lot of tundra thats being held down by that ice cap. Henry Waxman
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, Thank God, Im still alive. But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. Barbara Boxer
And Just for fun I have to throw this one into the mix…from the man who would be governoragain:
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jerry Brown
Brilliant!
I agree, the competition in Washington is thick for the title of “stupidest”. Instead of choosing a winner I think it better to let all comers bask in the spotlight of their own idiotic statements.
Certainly Joe Biden is well up in that pack. (Biden’s gaffs and downright stupid statements are simply to numerous to mention here, you could do several blogs of quotes from Biden alone.) And that guy is a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I pray daily for President Obama’s continued good health even though he gives Biden some stiff competition in the just plain dumb department.
Consider Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) who, when revealing she embraced cap and trade’s massive tax increase on Michigan industry, announced, “Climate change is very real. Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying. The storms are more volatile.”
Another infamous Stabenow announcement was that she would conduct hearings and have radio station owners subpoenaed to testify so that the Senate could determine why people tune in Rush Limbaugh and tune out Air America.
Certainly Ms. Stabenow deserves a mention. Yay Debbie!
Re: Chris | October 9, 2010 6:15 PM | Reply
I honestly don’t see anything at all wrong with the first or third statements. Does that make me stupid too?
Try giving them another read before you decide how dim your bulb is.
“When I was growing up, the big fear in my life was the nuclear war. I remember second- and third-grade teachers giving us skills to deal with it, if that big alarm goes off, which was ‘Hide under your desk.’ Would that do any good? I don’t know. But as a child, that gives you a feeling there’s something to do beyond panic. Today the biggest fear our kids live with is whether … the kid beside them has a gun. We have to give them skills so they feel confident to deal with it.”
“The highest-paying job I had before coming to Washington, D.C., paid $23,000 a year. … I know what it’s like to tell my kids they can’t buy everything they want.”
Still don’t see the problem, Pie. What is wrong with giving kids a way of dealing with the fear of school violence? She doesn’t elaborate on what exactly she would do to promote that (at least not in the portion quoted–for all I know what follows is a smart, detailed plan for doing such), but shouldn’t something be done?
The third quote isn’t stupid at all. My mother has said almost the same thing, minus the DC job part. Hell, most adults have said some version of that at some point in their lives. Can you explain what’s wrong with it? Apparently I’m too dim to understand it myself.
In the first: You don’t have kids hiding under desks anymore do you? Why? Because it was useless and dumb waste of the kids and the teacher’s time. Same reason here. Extreme violence in schools is rare. “Today the biggest fear our kids live with is whether … the kid beside them has a gun” is dopey a canard.
Just for the sake of argument, let us say it is not a dopey canard for, say, inner city schools. You solve school violence problems by “teaching” kids how to cope with the trauma of violence? No, you don’t. You stop the violence, which is the purview of the adults, not the children.
In those rare instances of school violence, post situation trauma has been effectively dealt with. But, again, here the responsibility and skills needed to deal with (or prevent) violence are the tasks of the adults, not the kids who need to be spending all their time learning the basics, not in some idiotic, useless class trying to teach them how to “deal with” violence.
As to the second: Oh, cmon now. What reasoning adult parent, ANY reasoning adult parent in ANY income bracket, thinks their primary job responsibility to their kids is to “buy everything they want.” Are you kidding? Is she kidding? You can’t be serious. Get real.
Maybe this is how Paris Hilton’s are created, but it is not how you build character in children and teach them there is much more to life than just satisfying their desires. For crying out loud, if this is Stabenow’s child rearing philosophy she is not merely stupid, she is a child abuser.
Our gun nuts live in a la-la-land where Columbine, and the countless school shootings since, have never happened.
Ga-Ga.
Pie, you and Jack are taking those statements far too literally. Murray wasn’t saying that we should institute measures along the lines of “hiding under the desk.” She even admits that this was probably a stupid plan. But what she is saying is that we need to make sure our kids feel safe in school. Wouldn’t you agree with this basic idea?
“”Today the biggest fear our kids live with is whether … the kid beside them has a gun” is dopey a canard.”
How long has it been since you’ve been in high school, or had a kid in high school? It’s a true statement!
“What reasoning adult parent, ANY reasoning adult parent in ANY income bracket, thinks their primary job responsibility to their kids is to “buy everything they want.””
Pie, nobody actually thinks their primary job is to buy their kids everything they want. But it’s a very common figure of speech that plenty of people have said before. They don’t mean it literally. If you’ve never heard this before, you probably haven’t talked to a lot of parents.
It’s really a stretch to say that either of these two quotes is “stupid,” let alone use them as evidence that Murray is the “dumbest senator in Washington.” I’m with you on the bin Laden quote, but those two don’t compare. Not to quotes like these:
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”
“If we took away the minimum wage–if conceivably it was gone–we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.”
“And what a bizarre time we’re in, when a judge will say to little children that you can’t say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.”
“Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man.”
“I was wondering, if most employers are already doing this anyway, isnt minimum wage really just superfluous? Why do we even have one?”
“If raising the minimum wage to $7.00 an hour is a good idea, that why dont we just raise it to $20.00 an hour, that must be even better.”
“Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that.”
–Michele Bachmann
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Chris | October 9, 2010 6:15 PM | Reply
I honestly don’t see anything at all wrong with the first or third statements. Does that make me stupid too?
Yes, it does.