Groucho Marx once famously sent a telegram to a Hollywood club that said: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
I recently discovered a new website created by the Brady Campaign: lapdogscorecard.org
According to Brady A Lap Dog is a member of Congress that takes treats from the corporate gun lobby AND blocks progress on expanding Brady background checks. The rating applies to members of the 114th Congress.
The Lap Dog label is based on two basic criteria:
1. Did you support legislative efforts to expand background checks on gun sales?
AND
2. Did you take money from the corporate gun lobby?
The purpose of the website is to let you know if your member of Congress a Lap Dog for the corporate gun lobby?
First of all, the idea of a Lap Dog is highly offensive. It presumes that there are no principled gun rights supporters in Congress. The only reason, according to Brady, that a person would support gun rights is that they are filthy whore for the evil gun lobby.
I am a principled gun owner. I don’t need the NRA telling me what to believe. I just have to turn to the evidence of history and the words of our Founding Fathers. I don’t need the NRA to give me money to not support gun control. I’d be happy to take their money, but I’d vote against gun control on my own. Besides, long before I took money from the NRA, I took money from the gun industry. It’s called a paycheck.
I went over to the Lap Dog list for Florida. I may have moved out of the Gunshine state, but home is where the heart is.
Lap Dog Scorecard shows the picture of a state’s members of Congress, if they have a thumbs up or down rating from the Brady Campaign, how much money they took from the Gun Lobby, and if they meet the lap dog criteria.
This is their rating for Senator Marco Rubio, for example.
So lets see who the good guys are for the Brady Campaign. The members of the Florida House of Representatives who aren’t lab dogs. Those who got a thumbs up rating from Brady.
Up first we have Congressman Alan Grayson.
Thumbs up for a man who was accused of beating his wife. This is also the man who got violent with a reporter who questioned Grayson about his domestic violence. Grayson, with his Liberal populist rhetoric against Wall Street and the 1%, actually ran a Hedge Fund out of his Congressional office, violating Congressional ethics rules and the law. Grayson tried to run for Senate in Florida, but was so burdened with scandals that even Harry Reid told him to back down. When Harry Reid calls you out for being a piece of shit, you know that you are a real piece of shit.
Who else?
How about Congressman Alcee Hastings.
Before Hastings was Congressman, he was a Federal Judge. He is also the sixth judge in US history to be impeached by the United States Senate. He was convicted by the Senate and removed from office for taking $150,000 in bribes. Hastings corruption didn’t stop there, he was been investigated by the House Ethics Committee and is ranked No. 1 in the House for nepotism. If that wasn’t enough, the House Ethics Committee had to reprimand Hastings for being sexually inappropriate with a subordinate. All of this has earned Hastings a spot in Judicial Watch’s Top 10 Most Corrupt Politicians.
Can we do better?
Yes we can, in the form of Congresswoman Corrine Brown.
Brown was indicted on 22 charges of corruption for creating a fake charity to use as a slush fund.
Next up is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Schultz was the keystone in the Hillary Clinton’s effort to corrupt the Democratic National Convention, violate DNC rules, and undermine the will of Democrat voters, to get Hillary ordained. For her efforts, Schultz was sent home from the Convention early, to thunderous boos from the audience.
That’s quite a motley crew the Brady Campaign is giving thumbs up to, we’ve got corruption, illegal use of Congressional powers, bribery, extortion, and domestic violence. It’s good to see that the Brady Campaign endorses such upstanding members of Congress.
I guess as long as you vote to take away American’s gun rights, it’s totally cool to beat your wife and steal money from people.
At this point, if I weren’t a principled gun rights enthusiast, I’d become a Lap Dog just to make sure that there was no way I’d be positively associated with the likes of these pieces of shit human beings. No thank you.
I invite you to look up who is not a Lap Dog and has a Brady Campaign thumbs up in your state. See just how many of Brady’s favorite members of Congress deserve to have their next term in a Federal prison.
Where did they get 93% of people want to extend background checks? I suppose they’re not counting members of the NRA and other pro-gun RIGHTS groups. Easy to throw numbers around. Also, believe any group that takes advantage of a gun crisis (does Obama come to mind, and his minions).