Stutzman admits to being a rube

Indiana’s 3^rd District Representative Marlin Stutzman provided the crucial vote that allowed OJ Boehner’s 1,700 page 1.1 trillion dollar CROmnibus - that effectively neuters Republicans for the remainder of the fiscal year - to pass the house.  Stutzman was thought to be a reliable conservative, well at least his district is reliably conservative.  Now Stutzman claims that he was lied to, tricked, bamboozled, hoodwinked, by the GOP leadership to get him to switch his position on the procedural vote that allowed Boehner’s atrocity to proceed.  I’m not so sure.  Stutzman has yet to name the liar(s).  Here’s how the Ft. Wayne fish wrap summed up Stutzman’s idiocy in Saturday’s edition.

I’ve voted for Stutzman three times.  I’m pretty much done with him…at least until the next time.  Here’s the note I sent him summing up what I think of his betrayal of the 3^rd District.

Representative Marlin Stutzman                                          14 December, 2014
1300 South Harrison Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802 

Dear Congressman Stutzman:

I read in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette on Saturday that you were “surprised…to see the CROmnibus back on the floor” after you supported it in a procedural vote.  Weird huh?  It’s almost like you threw principle to the wind during the procedural vote, and then were “surprised” to find out that principle matters.  But don’t worry.  In 2016 you can always use the tried and true campaign slogan, “I actually voted for it, before I voted against it” when trying to explain away your CROmnibus betrayal to the 3^rd district.  That gem of a slogan has been a real winner for everyone who has used it in the past.

But “surprised?”  Really, you were “surprised?” I was “surprised” by a party on my 50^th birthday.  I, like 99.99999% of American voters, am never surprised when a politician lies to me.  Anyone who gets “surprised” by that trick is a rube.  Being lied to by dirt bag politicians doesn’t “surprise” me, it makes me mad as heck.  You should exchange some of your “surprise” for righteous anger.

Politicians used to duel with swords and pistols and kill each other for much less than what some nameless bureaucrat pulled on you.  Alexander Hamilton aside, for the life of me I cannot understand why that practice fell into such disrepute.  An endless supply of unscrupulous politicians killing each other every weekend could fill RFK stadium at $200 a head for millennia.  We could use the funds to finally get a handle on the debt while ridding the nation of its pampered ruling class weasels.  Finally, a term limit arrangement all Americans would agree to.

Here’s the deal.  You give the liar in the GOP leadership 72 hours to publicly admit that he lied to you.  Demand an apology to you, the third district and America.  If he doesn’t, you name the person, time and place the lie was told.  If you don’t demand an apology from the liar and/or out him yourself then I’ll assume that it is you who is lying.  No.  I wouldn’t be surprised if you turn out to be a liar (see paragraph 2), but I would be mad as heck (see paragraph 2).   

Also, your “communications director” must be a dear friend, family member or an extortionist.  What kind of dirt does he have on you?  There is no other explanation for having someone so obtuse in that position.  Mr. Stapleton told the JG that being lied to by the GOP leadership wouldn’t cause you to distrust them in the future.  Really?  Are you going to continue to trust the people who lied to you?  Tell Mr. Stapleton to practice the phrase “trust but verify” in front of the mirror 10,000 times each morning before showing his face in public.  Oh and what Reagan really meant by that was, he didn’t trust the Soviets an inch.  If you doubt that assessment, try this experiment at home; tell your wife that you trust her, but you’re going to have to verify everything she says anyway.  That isn’t going to fly, is it?  So, yeah, Regan didn’t trust the Soviets.  The bottom line on that stupid comment from Mr. Stapleton is this: If you are willing to trust known liars, the people of third district shouldn’t trust you. 

You and your boneheaded communications director have provided a gold mine of material for a primary challenge.

Marlin Stutzman (Doing your best John Kerry imitation):  I actually voted for it, before I voted against it.

Stutzman’s primary challenger:  If Marlin is going to trust liars, the 3^rd district shouldn’t trust Marlin.

I plan to contact Matt Kibbe’s group at Freedom Works to find out who in the district is available to mount a primary challenge against you in 2016.  You have embarrassed yourself and our district.  Worse, by casting a vote that by your own admission compromised principle, you have enabled the further weakening of America.