Rather than answer the question at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry, Rep. Don Young (R-AK)… nuzzled a videographer’s camera.
“There you go,” the congressman commented to the videographer, smiling.
Until that point, asked several times whether it’s appropriate for the President to ask a foreign government to interfere in American elections, Young just kept walking.
Maybe this is technically considered a “headbutt.” We report, you decide:
Watch Republican Congressman @repdonyoung (R-AK) headbutt the camera when we asked him if it’s okay to ask foreign governments to interfere in our elections.
And no, he never answered the question. pic.twitter.com/FWgmkdzycG
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) October 31, 2019
Young has a bit of a reputation for this kind of thing. Earlier this year, the congressman shoved Politico’s Melanie Zanona. He “told me to get out of his way ‘damnit’ as I was trying to interview another lawmaker,” Zanona recalled.
And few years ago, Young grabbed a congressional staffer’s arm on video. Then there’s the near folkloric tale of him holding a knife — the blade was closed — to the throat of then-House Speaker John Boehner. (Young tells the story here at 10:18.)
H/t HuffPost.
Old GOP pervert. Just another Friday.
My understanding is that despite him representing Alaska, a ruby-red state, Young is vulnerable. Does anyone know why?
Ezra Klein had a short appearance on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night and he remarked about the near insane partisanship exhibited by the Republican Party.
He called it “scary”.
I believe that there are several types of House Members and Senators who are part of this type of partisanship and I trace just about all of it to The Biggest Hustle Ever Run:
“How do you get citizens of one of the wealthiest countries on earth to self-oppress themselves?”
The difficulties we face with governing ourselves and protecting ourselves from the predators who most of us are battling are mostly self-inflicted.
It isn’t like, say, the Germans invading and raping France for five years. Or what they did in Poland starting Sept, 1939.
This is American Versus American…normalized and institutionalized by some of the cleverest Hustlers ever born.
And the Profile in Courage Award goes to…
Some of us better than others, but I think all of us here could articulate an answer to this question and touch on most of the salient reasons.