GOP Rep Stuzman Walks Back from 'I Don't Know What We Want ' , Comment

[Stuart G]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman (IN) walked back remarks saying that Republicans "have to get something" out of the government shutdown impasse even though they "don't know what that even is."

On Thursday, Stutzman released a statement saying he misspoke.

"Yesterday, I carelessly misrepresented the ongoing budget debate and Speaker Boehner’s work on behalf of the American people," Stutzman said in a statement. "Despite my remarks it’s clear that the American people want both parties to come to the table to reopen the government, tackle this nation’s debt crisis, and stop ObamaCare’s pain."

A day earlier, the Washington Examiner reported Stutzman saying "We're not going to be disrespected."

"We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is," Stutzman said.


Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-stutzman-walks-back-don-t-know-what-we-want-comment

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Too late asshole...you let it out...it ain't coming back..You defined yourself and your extreme views better than anyone else could...

You are commended for once telling the truth about who you really are....even though you are back to the old lies...

[ck4829]

1. Once again, the 'misrepresentation' describes the Republicans to a T.

They are the Misrepresentation Party.

Misrepublicans?

[gopiscrap]

2. fucking idiot

[sendero]

3. The jury will disregard that remark....

.... one of the stupidest things you will ever hear because nobody can unhear words, period, ever.

[Arkana]

4. Too late, fuckwad. Can't put that particular toothpaste back in the tube.

[Stuart G]

6. That is correct..the toothpase is out..forever...

[Plucketeer]

5. BEYOND belief!

What a friggin' JERK. Covering the truth with lies. LOSER!!!

[Snake Plissken]

7. Here you go

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[DinahMoeHum]

8. Too late, Stutzman. Can't un-shit the bed.

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[Downtown Hound]

9. Dear GOP:

Would you kindly stop referring to your minority base of ignorant, backwoods, gun-humping, bible thumpers and rich corporate terrorists as "the American People?" They're only a small faction of the American people, as evidenced by the last election you all thought you had in the bag.

Lots of us, by which I mean tens of millions of us, want Obamacare to happen. And while many of us are ultimately not satisfied with it and would like to see more happen in the area of health care reform, we recognize it as a step forward and much better than the current system we have. Thank you.

Although I realize that doing this one simple request is beyond your current ability because it would require your sick, demented, torture fiend party to for once be honest, and I know that there's no way that's going to happen.

[Orsino]

10. Careless misrepresentation replaced by deliberate misrepresentation. n/t

[WovenGems]

11. Close

Careless truth replaced by deliberate misrepresentation provided his master.

[Raine1967]

12. Of course he does.... Question: when does he walk back this statement:

The man is an idiot.

[The Second Stone]

13. Wouldn't functioning government be something that they could claim as a victory

and pretend they had nothing to do with stopping it in the first place? Anything else sounds like extortion. Because that is what it is. And yes, we disrespect extortionists.

[SunSeeker]

14. And now you've established you're a liar too, Stutzman.

That was no misspeak. No one is buying that. A misspeak is an accident, like saying yesterday was Oct. 3 when you meant Oct. 2. You went on for several sentences. You were expressing your true thoughts, not misspeaking. People know the difference. That is why NO ONE bought it when Romney said he misspoke about the 47%. All his backpedaling did was confirm that he was a liar for claiming he didn't mean it.

[Marrah_G]

15. He is getting hammered on FB

[JBoy]

16. Here's Charles Pierce this morning on Stutzman:

The Intertoobz is alive this morning with the plaintive wail of Congressman Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, who finds that he is being disrespected by history even as he is in the process of making it.

Have a cookie, Marlin. Have a cookie and go play with your toes.

A largely unremarked element of the etiology of the prion disease currently afflicting the Republican party -- and therefore, alas, the country -- is the carefully cultivated, and by now deeply inculcated, sense of conservative victimhood that has been a prime element of conservatism's emotional appeal since long before Richard Nixon rose to power on it. They are always beset. They are always besieged. They are always surrounded -- by intellectuals, by scientists, by the all-powerful Left that exists primarily in their imaginations, because it certainly doesn't exist in American politics, and hasn't since the days of Joe McCarthy. Culturally, this always has been expressed partly by the endless conservative bleating that somebody, somewhere is getting laid. The Gospels tell us that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ's church. The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

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They are children playing dress up. Everybody's Aragorn for Halloween. Meanwhile, the government is shut down, the country a laughing stock, and real people with real problems to overcome go hungry, or get sick, or find their lives flaking away at the edges while Marlin Stutzman rings the doorbell, says trick-or-treat in Elvish, and then walks away, bitching about the quality of the M&Ms.

more at:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Endless_Victimhood

[cheapdate]

23. Holy cow, that's brilliant! Charles Pierce is a God!

[FSogol]

17. Do you mean "One-term Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman?"

[thefool_wa]

18. "Speaker Boehner’s work on behalf of the American people."

70% of the nation wants ACA in effect, or at least are not willing to destroy the global economy over its implementation.

The RESOUNDING voice of the country in the past 2 elections (pres and mid term) was in favor of Dems who have ran on support for the ACA.

80 congressmen and their constituencies represent 18.5% of America. That number has fallen in the last 2 days to 59 congressman, or 13.5% (based on the idea that each congressman represents about the same number of people).

There are enough votes without them to pass a clean resolution when it is presented for a vote.

This man IS NOT doing work on behalf of the American people, he is grandstanding for his own political gain, in his own district, DESPITE the American people.

We need a way to get around him, NOW. When 13.5% of the country can hold the entire nation hostage and threaten toppling the entire global economy, we no longer live in a democracy.

At some point we will have to do what needs to be done. Fortunately, the founders left us with an option.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Right. Keep trying to stuff those wiggly worms back into that can, moron.

[Daniel537]

20. This man's stupidity is not surprising

What is surprising is that 187,610 people in his district saw fit to elect him to public office. Do people really enjoy embarrassing themselves by electing these turds, or are they completely aloof to it?

[Sunlei]

21. Stutzman has lost Americas respect.

[Turbineguy]

22. They are getting something

They are harming people.