The usurper in the White House tenther temper tantrums continue in the republican controlled Missouri General Assembly. A bill, introduced today by Representative Tim Remole (r):

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1620

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES REMOLE (Sponsor), CURTMAN, BAHR, MESSENGER, MOON, RICHARDSON, FRAKER, PIKE, MUNTZEL, POGUE, MILLER, HURST, RHOADS, SPENCER, BERRY, KELLEY (127), HICKS, FRANKLIN, LYNCH, LANT, REIBOLDT, FITZWATER, HOSKINS, DOHRMAN, LOVE, SHULL, WALKER, STREAM, SCHIEBER, HOUGHTON AND WILSON (Co-sponsors).

5223H.02I     D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to regulations resulting from presidential executive orders.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

           Section A. Chapter 1, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 1.345, to read as follows:

           1.345. 1. Any federal regulation or rule promulgated as a result of an executive order of the President of the United States repugnant of the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of Missouri shall be declared invalid in the state of Missouri. Such regulations and rules shall be considered null and void and of no effect.

           2. It shall be the duty of the general assembly to adopt and enact any and all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of regulations and rules issued by a presidential executive order.

[emphasis in original]

….Rep. Remole is….a lifetime member of the NRA and a proud supporter of Missouri Farm Bureau, Eagle Forum, and Americans for Prosperity….

That actually explains a lot.

Uh, so were were these people when Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush were president? Just asking.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the United States Supreme Court has the final say on the constitutionality concerning federal issues, not the republican tenther caucus in the Missouri General Assembly.

Previously:

Senator Kit Bond (r): “Apologize, who me?”

Senator Kit Bond (r): “Respect my @&%$in’ authoritayyy!”

At Thursday’s White House press briefing Robert Gibbs took a question about Senator Kit Bond’s (r) continuing temper tantrum over briefings concerning the underwear bomber. The White House is not curling up in the corner and saying, “Please. Don’t. Hurt. Me.” on this one:

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

February 11, 2010

Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and CEA Chair Christina Romer, 2/11/10

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

….1:05 P.M. EST

….Q    Senator Bond accused the White House of using JohnmBrennan for political purposes, saying that he was being — doing the role, your role.  This economic report —

MR. GIBBS:  Let me just address that.  Let’s understand this:  John Brennan has been working in counterterrorism for more than 25 years — right?  First as a CIA agent hired by President George W. Bush to work at the CIA, and then to stand up the National Counterterrorism Center.  Okay?  We asked him to stay on.  I don’t have the slightest idea what political party John Brennan is a member of.  I’ve never had a political conversation with John.  I know this:  John is there each and every day working in his office to try to do everything he can to keep the American people safe.

And I would suggest, whether it’s to Senator Bond or others on Capitol Hill, that these are decisions best left to people that have an understanding of counterterrorism, experience in counterterrorism and law enforcement, rather than to politicians on Capitol Hill.

Q    But his specific accusation was that he was being used in a way that a press secretary is supposed to — I mean, that he was enunciating Obama’s policy.

MR. GIBBS:  I think Kit Bond didn’t — I don’t think Kit Bond liked to hear what he already knew, which was he’d been told that Abdulmutallab was in FBI custody after what happened on Christmas Day.

Now, I’ll let you, Jonathan, ask Kit Bond whether he understands the protocols of how the FBI deals with suspects enough to understand that at that point it would have been obvious he would have been read his Miranda rights.  I don’t know whether Kit Bond was confused or whether he just doesn’t want to admit the facts….

[emphasis added]

I vote for “C”, both of the above.

The Eric Cartman of lame duck republican senators is continuing to petulantly pitch a fit and is escalating his rhetoric. The White House is pushing back:

White House: Kit Bond’s Call For Brennan’s Resignation Is “Pathetic”

As you may have heard, Senator Kit Bond is calling for Obama counter-terror chief John Brennan to step down, largely because Brennan has taken the lead in pushing back against GOP efforts to paint Obama as weak on terror.

The White House is now dismissing Bond’s efforts as “pathetic,” and pointing to Brennan’s lifetime of professional intelligence experience as proof that Bond is putting politics over our national security. Asked for comment on Bond’s broadside, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro emails over a brief and dismissive comment:

“Through his pathetic attack on a counter-terrorism professional like John Brennan who has spent his lifetime protecting this country under multiple Administrations, Senator Bond sinks to new depths in his efforts to put politics over our national security.”

The conventions of political journalism for some reason discourage doing this, but it’s worth pointing out that the White House is right….

I wonder if there’s a podium around that he can pound on while he’s at it.