Now that Allen West and Joe Walsh are no longer in Congress, who tops your list for most annoying?
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Toss up between Gohmert and Bachmann but really there are many from which to choose.
In order:
Louis Goehmert
Virginia Foxx
Paul Broun
Steve King
Pete King
Michele Bachmann
Joe “You lie” Wilson
Paul Ryan
Mitch McConnell
Ooh Virginia Foxx. Good one.
This is a great list and note that yours is the only one with Joe Wilson on it. I am waiting for the day that he pays a real political price for his disrespect of the President.
Paul Broun is close to home and I honestly cannot comprehend how so many folks vote for him. He’s to the right of his fellow congressmen in the state and understand he doesn’t get much respect from them. Sadly, though, he got reelected on November 6 as he had no Democratic opposition, only the write-in votes for Charles Darwin, which didn’t count.
Bachmann. Only because she has a more national audience.
Gohmert & Broun are slightly wackier than Bachmann.
Although he won’t be in the Senate until January, Cruz is rapidly heading for the top spot.
Worse than John Cornyn? Are “red states” in competition for electing the worst Senator?
Michele Bachmann
Paul Ryan
Who stop my list?
Who stop my list is: Paul Ryan for sure. And my reason is because he’s most dangerous. Bachmann is mentally ill and everyone knows it. Even those who love her know it. She’s a side show. The wacky aunt who ought to be driving a clown car.
But Ryan is dangerous because he knows how to come across as sincere and moderate to those not paying attention. Of course, if you look at all closely, the guy looks like a little devil; just needs a pitchfork and the tail.
Louie Gohmert.
Not only is he an ass, he’s an undeducated ass (Texas A&M) and a Lawyer.
Furthermore, he represents EAST Texas, which as any sane person will tell you is really Arkansas.
Besides, he’s going bald and name sucks
Darrell Issa
He’s at the top of my list too, but the Teapublicans have some solid talent. It’s sort of like Al Qaeda; there’s alway a number two waiting to become number 1.
The other fourteen remaining CA GOP Reps can’t go soon enough either. If Lungren and Bono-Mack can be taken out, no reason Issa and the others can’t be made vulnerable.
So many to pick from…
Bachmann
Ryan
McConnell
Boehner
Issa
Joe Wilson
Graham
McCain (a few years ago he wouldn’t make my list)
Rand Paul (but think there is a place in Congress for his dad)
Both Kings
Ryan. The trickle-down piety is just pukeworthy. But maybe he’s not qualified, being way beyond annoying.
Obviously…
Looking forward to Ashley Judd making a run against McConnell – I know Stumbo says it isn’t happening, but I’m fairly sure that lust trumps mining jobs and that the University of Kentucky trumps everything else around these parts.
It might not happen, and if she does run she might not win, but it would absolutely torture McConnell and that – all by itself – would be worth it.
I’d like to put that puck in that net.
For one thing, Lieberman and Ryan were well above those two on my list, so now that, thank God, Lieberman is almost out to pasture, Ryan stands alone at the top of my list.
Because her district neighbors mine, and because she wins by being a really good politician: It’s not a publicity act — she really does represent the beliefs and values of the majority of her district’s constituents, which is pretty scary for Minnesota.
Wasn’t that John McCain complaining on camera recently that his brilliant suggestion for sending Bill Clinton out to fix the Gaza thing had been IGNORED, and what do you know, the Secretary of State was already working the problem, along with, yes, the President of the US of A.
And that guy, the POTUSA, had been calling folks on the telephone … whoa, how low-rent can you get?
Only missing from this mini-drama was the hook from offscreen to yank him away, and send him back down to triple-a baseball where he can spend some time working on his swing.
And yes, Paul Ryan ALWAYS qualifies as annoying-person-in-chief, just for pretending to be a heavy-weight and acting like he’s getting away with it, when anybody with one eye open can see the lightness of his being.
Not to mention the transparency of his game.
Another dork … honestly, what do they see in him? Blue eyes, ok so what?
No love for Eric Cantor. That is interesting.
I’m late to the party.
Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Bachmann are my top three, seeing as Walsh and West were taken down. Those were my top five before the election 🙂
Ryan and Mike Pence, who will soon be a problem in congress no longer, but a local one for us to deal with instead.
Gohmert (TX)
Blackburn (TN)
Chaffetz (UT)
Lipinski (IL)
I would add Hultgren IL-14, he’s such an ass.
Kathy McMorris Rogers, just cause she never once has stood up for her constituents the way she stands placidly behind John Boehner.
What? No ironic love for Mean Jean Schmidt?