has courage because he brought me in here. he was chuckling about the fact he made offensive comments. i think it was a terrible mistake. you say it is a mistake. i think republicans have a problem in associating themselves with people like nugent. he is one of a kind surely. there are people who do certain things, say certain things and represent certain things that they still invite to the table and they need to separate themselves. you have to figure out where to draw the line. texas is packed with these people. this guy elected congressman, they will not say the president was legitimately elected. rafael cruz, texas republicans have made a mission of delegitimizing the president. nearly half sponsors of the birther bill from texas. we point out the language of rafael cruz who campaigns for his son.
delegitimizing the president. nearly half sponsors of the birther bill from texas. we point out the language of rafael cruz who campaigns for his son. let s listen. we need to send barack obama back to chicago. ideologicalric like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. where do they start? there is a lot of guys closer than ted nugent that you may not like. i think they need to start cleaning up the house. they are electing these characters. ted cruz used to work for abbott. so just throw that in. it is just an interesting tidbit. you and i both are from south
from congressman yoho. he once said he would support a birther bill from fellow tea party republican steve stockman. i called steve up, i says, when i got back he says yeah we re doing it. would you want to get on that. i said yeah. [ applause ] then i asked and i ll ask you guys. is that really where we should be spending our time? but i m going to check into that. but don t worry. he s just going to check into that. congressman yoho even refused to answer when directly asked if president obama was born in america. so you accept the fact he was a born american? i m not no comment. are you a birther then? i m not going to comment on it.
i think we have a lot of options, tools. i think one of the tools you have as a congressman is to impeach somebody, but i m not saying that s the first step. but a step we need to leave open. linged to an obama birther bill. steve stockman, who had a staffer on a food stamp budget. reporting back it was easy and should be cut by 12%. yes, that steve stockman. it seemed too easy for our series. his twitter feed alternates with self-parody to delusional to celebrate. one of the most right wing members in all of congress and according to him, the debt is all president obama s fault. this president is digging a hole so deep that we can t dig out of it. the amount of money we re borrowing is predicted in four or five years, it may take all
i m not going to comment on it, chris. yoho had previously said in a town hall meeting that he would consider co-sponsoring congressman steve stockman s birther bill. in that same town hall meeting last august yoho said this about the tanning bed tax in obama care. i had an indian doctor in the office the other day, very dark skin and two non-dark skinned people, and i asked they started laughing, and i said, have you ever been to a tanning booth? he said, no. no need. i got taxed for the color of my skin. like many in the tea party, yoho views himself as engaged in an epic struggle. a struggle for justice right up there with some of the great struggles in history. it only takes one with passion, he said, look at rosa park, martin luther king, people with passion that speak up. they ll have people follow them because they believe the same