Tim Huelskamp: ISBL Asshat of the Week

Kansas Republican Congressman Tim Huelskamp does not like The Gays, and does not like the ruling of the Supreme Court that rang the death knell for DOMA, and Prop H8 packing. 

So, even though the GOP’s Job#1 is jobs—except when they were trying to keep Obama out of the White House for a second term and except when they were voting for the, what is it now, the 37th time, to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act—Huelskamp's Job #1 right now is trying to get a Constitutional Amendment passed to ban same-sex marriage everywhere.

:::foot stomp:::

Sadly though, even in his home state of Kansas, he’s not getting the support for his Hate Ban that he’d hoped. The democrats are basically calling his attempt a joke, and his own party is telling him to settle.

“It is a complete and utter waste of time. It is a waste of taxpayer dollars. It clearly demonstrates that he has nothing better to do. He is holding on to this divisive and hateful legislation when he should be focused on bringing jobs back to the First District. This will not help the farmers.”— Kansas Democratic Party spokesman Dakota Loomis

Then toss in his own party and, well, me thinks Tim Huelskamp needs a nap.

Kansas state Congressman, J.R. Claeys calls the same-sex marriage ban “not a legislative priority of mine" and then added that he doesn't see a chance for Huelskamp's amendment ever passing. When asked if he thinks Huelskamp should have even made the proposal, he says, “I am not sure how to diplomatically sidestep this question."

Translation: Tim Huelskamp needs to settle down.

But Tim Huelskamp probably won’t take that sit down. While he admits that all recent polls show a majority of Americans leaning in favor of same-sex marriage, he is going to press on because his homophobia 1s Job#1; not what the people want, mind you.

And here’s his reasoning: "A majority of Americans don't like President Obama as president, but he's still the president."

Um, Obama is still the president because he was elected to the job, asshat. He isn’t a social issue, he’s the president. And when members of your own party are asking that you set aside your homophobia—which, many times in the GOP, is a cover-up for being a deeply closeted, bathroom stall foot-tapping, homosexual—you should listen.

The people of Kansas who voted for you want you to work for them, not for your own personal bigotry.

And that’s why you, Tim Huelskamp, are the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

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ISBL Asshat of the Week: Nanette Billings

So, it's pretty obvious that Mittsy will be the GOP whipping boy, er, nominee for president, and, of course all of his rivals for the office have long since dropped out of the race.

Well, except for openly gay Republican Fred Karger. He's still in it, despite the chance that he doesn't have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nod. But Karger is still running, and on an issues-based campaign to change attitudes within the GOP about same-sex marriage. And just recently his quest took him to, of all places, that hot-bed of LGBT-friendliness, Utah, which holds the nation's last primary election on June 26.

Karger spent four days in Utah, meeting local GOP leaders and urging the Mormon Church, AKA the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to stop funding efforts against marriage equality. Back in the day, Karger founded a group called "Californians Against Hate," which focused on Mormon involvement in the campaign to pass Proposition H8, but that's neither here nor there, it's just background fodder.

The story is that, while in Utah, Fred Karger met with Washington County GOP Party Chairman Willie Billings, whom Karger called "welcoming" and "friendly." In fact, after their meeting, Karger gave Billings some of his campaign treats, like Frisbees and t-shirts. 

Nice gesture, except.....

When Willie Billings took the souvenirs home, his wife, Nanette Billings, our ISBL Asshat of the Week, threw them all in the trash and fired off an email to Karger, via his website:

Wow. I know. Such a lovely woman with quite a grasp of spelling, eh?

First off, Nan...may I call you Nan? Even though I have far filthier names to call you running through my head? Its Frisbee, not frisby, Get a fucking dictionary if you can take the time to pull your fat head out of your overly large ass, m’kay?

Secondly, WTF is a “conseritave”? Is it from the Latin for ‘douchebag with a first grade education’ because that’s what it reads like?

Thirdly, you mindnumbingly dumb wingnut, Fred Karger actually can procreate, and, well, sad to say, so can you, and you probably have, which means there might be an entire litter of your ilk rummaging through the Utah landscape.

I don’t know which sickens me more, her spelling incapability, the fact that she has no idea what an apostrophe is, or the fact that this woman has access to the outside world, and that the outside world wants to hear from her.

See, following the news of her nasty email, Billings spoke via phone with Yahoo News, saying, "My feeling is the only reason he's running for president is to find more [sexual] partners...to get more people on his bandwagon. All I did was go on his site and say, 'You're pathetic.' We're a very conservative state in Utah, very family-oriented. So he's picked a state just to cause ruckus. He's not thinking of family, he's thinking of himself. He's not running for president to fix something in the country—he's thinking of his own personal agenda, period. And I was just letting him know that I think he's an idiot to think of running."

And Nan? You say you're about family and then you spew hate. You aren't about family or family values, because, if those vile rantings of yours are "family" values, then I feel sorry for your family. And I feel sorry for your husband, who seems to at least have an open mind when it comes to Fred Karger, in particular, and the LGBT community in general.

Your impression of us is all based on what your disgusting narrow, pea-brained--though I think a pea is far bigger than your brain--mind can conjure up. And to couch your particular brand of bile in conservatism, or religion, or, for the love of the goddess, even family, is the lowest of low.

Nan, you need to find out why you are so hate-filled, why you have no acceptance, understanding, tolerance, for any person who might be different than you.

Failing that you need a long time, or a lifetime time-out.

For his part, Karger says he was shocked at the email, but that it underscores the reason he traveled to Utah in the first place: "This is what the Mormon church preaches to its members. This is not some isolated woman in Utah."

All the scarier, eh?

via ABCNews

Outstanding Guest Comment Of The Week

And yet another week has come to an end, so it's time once again to announce the winner of the coveted...coveted?...ISBL Outstanding Guest Comment Of The Week. And there was a wealth of funny and informative from which to choose.
Let's roll...

In response to my post What Do Lesbian Comics Know About Homophobia?...or more precisely, to the line "Dawn Whitwell is a Canadian comedian. I know, sounds like an oxymoron to me, too, but I digress."

Kevin, from The Lisp...who happens to be Canadian, said:
HEY!

Sorry, Kevin, that was just me being a Gay Comedian. See? No oxymoron there!

Well, no 'oxy' at least...

In response to my post Apparently, It's In The Water!...

FDeF, of the Reluctant Rebel, Dinner's Ready and Benedict Bentley said: 
Found a few email addresses for Hazard, KY and sent this:


To All Whom it May Concern:
As there is no direct email for the mayor of Hazard, KY, I am directing my comments here.
News is out about the reprehensible display of bigotry and hate proffered by an employee of a recreational facility (public pool) run by the city. Not only does the City of Hazard owe an apology to the developmentally challenged citizens who were insulted and asked to leave the pool, but the person who took it upon himself to use the Bible as an excuse for his hatred and morally superior attitude should be fired. His personal beliefs do not give him the right to deny citizens their right to use public facilities without cause. This kind of blatant hatred is totally unacceptable in a pluralistic, civilized society. (Perhaps Hazard does not fall into that category).

I like this because it's said without anger or vitriol, or the use of the word 'fucktard,' which might have appeared several times within the message had I sent it.

Recent winner, and runner-up this week, Froggy, from the aptly named froggy, responded to my post about John Edwards and his mug shot...Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny...with this bon mot:

At least this picture is above the waist.

So there is that for which to be grateful, although it does make me wonder if Johnny has any naughty TwitPics floating around, too.

Last week's winner and this week's first runner-up, Stan, of UnderSTANding STAN, had this to say about The MGB® Movie Poster:
I think it should be called "The Undeflated", since she's nothing more than a pompous air bag!
With the tagline "Oh, the inhumanity!"

Oh, the inhumanity is right!


But this week's top vote-getter, and let's remind you, I'm the only voter, goes to....drum roll please......

The Fabulous Twunty McSlore, of Love Me, Love My Blog, who also commented on The MGB® Movie Poster:
I think it should be a made up word, a la Dubya. How about the 'Un-Beleaguered?' or 'The Un-Mistreaterstood?' Anything will make sense, as long as it's unbelievably stupid. That is how much of a mind fuck her existence is.

The Un-Mistreaterstood!!
Sounds like something Shakespeare might have said, or maybe, the Mama Grizzly Bore, unless she decided to refudiate it.
Congrats Twunty!

And please, keep those comments, funny and enlightening, coming!