Rep. Steve King's 'Iowa Freedom Summit' Kicks Off With Attacks on DREAMers

[big_dog]

Source: Right Wing Watch

Jan Mickelson, the conservative Iowa-based radio talk show host, is the emcee of today’s Iowa Freedom Summit, where several GOP presidential candidates have joined Rep. Steve King to appeal to voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

Mickelson boasted of King’s anti-immigrant extremism, and made fun of DREAMers, who organized a protest across from the summit, by likening them to people trying to crash a hotel breakfast.

“Nobody from Iowa cares a sliver about immigration. All of us came from somewhere, but what we do care about is illegal gate-crashers, as Steve would say,” Mickelson said. “This is about rule of law.”

“‘We’ve borrowed the keys and we’re not happy about the maid service, the TV doesn’t work and we can’t eat at the continental breakfast,’” he said while imitating DREAMers. “‘That’s unfair, we’re dreamers, we’re dreaming about that breakfast. That’s pretty much the same argument the protesters outside are using. They haven’t checked in, they’re using property not of their own, they’re demanding room service and they say they can’t be evicted now because their kids have been born in that room they busted into.’”

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Not really breaking news.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. He is both very stupid and very full of hate...at the same time

He is a perfect representative of what tens of millions of voting Americans think like, and that should SCARE THE BEJEEZUS out of any rational person.

[big_dog]

3. live Iowa 2016 wingnut caucus coverage all day here

http://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/freedom-summit/analysis.php

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. Dont the plumbers and auto mechanics and farmers and cab drivers who vote repub realize they have NO

choice who to vote for, that this choice is made for them by these billionaires?

Now this is true to some respect about dems as well, but the dem has to default to some populist agenda otherwise they arent dems

though we are losing that too

but how in the FUCK can you IDIOTS vote for these people

[big_dog]

5. NPR's breakdown of the schedule

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Confirmed to appear are a group of current and former governors considering a run for the White House. That group includes Scott Walker, who was just re-elected in neighboring Wisconsin, and New Jersey's Chris Christie. Many say Christie is too moderate for Iowa, but he's had a close relationship with King for several years now. Also on the program are Rick Perry of Texas, who just left office, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Others slated to appear are Sen. Ted Cruz, former Sen. Rick Santorum (the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former business executive Carly Fiorina, former Ambassador John Bolton, and Donald Trump.

There are big names skipping the Freedom Summit as well, most notably Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. Kentucy Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are missing it as well. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal also won't be there. His office says he'll be attending a Global Prayer Gathering in Baton Rouge. Still, it's a big lineup for the event, which is a 2016 kickoff to the quadrenniel Iowa caucus calendar of big events. It's just one item in what will be a long and busy year in Iowa in advance of the caucuses. Over time, there will be steak frys, debates, photo-ops on farms, the big Ames Straw Poll this summer and, of course, the Iowa State Fair where every candidate is expected to hold court before an up-close crowd not far from the midway and the livestock pavilions. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/01/23/379410405/iowa-freedom-summit-looks-something-like-2016-is-underway

[rurallib]

8. CSPAN also carrying it live

ETA - I tried to watch, but it is so hard to watch lie after lie.

[big_dog]

9. Trump said to the Dallas News that he could have beaten President Obama

lolz

[vlyons]

6. Hatred makes you stupid.

That's a teaching from one of the Tibetan lamas in my Buddhist tradition. It is well worth remembering. Hatred closes the mind to infinite possibilities for adding value and making situations better and OTHER people happier. These Tparty hate-mongers are going to reap just what they sow. They are creating generations (note the plural) of young people, who will not forget -- EVER -- that these hate-mongers are perfectly fine with busting up families. How stupid is that?

Hatred makes you stupid.

[iandhr]

7. Good

We want this wacko out in the open. The American people support a compressive overall of our immigration system. If the people kissing his *** run for President we have many commercials ready to go.

[big_dog]

10. Satitorium should bring the crazy today, he's got to throw red meat to get the base riled up

since his campaign is always drastically underfunded (because he is a nut ball)