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Entries Tagged as 'Rep. Emmanel Cleaver'

Leave it to Cleaver: ‘I Can’t Legislate and Agitate at the Same Time’

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Wouldn’t claiming that you were spat on while walking to to the capitol to pass Obama’s unpopular healthcare bill be considered “legislating and agitating at the same time?” But we digress. Cleaver is angry that his $200 million Green Impact Zone earmark project is not hiring enough African Americans.
Kansas City Star:
[Cleaver] explained that he […]

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Tags: Rep. Emmanel Cleaver · Kansas City · Picture/Quote of the Day

Cleaver: Diversity is Only Diversity When Democrats Practice It

June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Read this hypocritical and elitist comment from back bencher Emanuel Cleaver on the election of African American Republican Tim Scott, R-SC to the U.S. House of Representatives:
“Diversity goes beyond skin color and gender to include opinion, and Scott lacks a different point of view. This gentleman is to the right of many of the members […]

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Video: Rush Limbaugh on Cong. Cleaver’s ‘6th Grade’ Comment

May 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Hat tip:infohwyguy

Related:
Quote of the Day: Cleaver: Americans Are NOT Smarter Than a Sixth Grader!
The Source: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is Smarter Than You

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Tags: Rep. Emmanel Cleaver · Videos

Quote of the Day: Cleaver: Americans Are NOT Smarter Than a Sixth Grader!

May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Quote machine Emanuel Cleaver is at it again. What a doofus!

“Americans are growing skeptical about the threat of global warming because “they don’t get” the complex information that scientists deliver, according to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
Unless scientists can simplify their arguments to the level of newspapers that “print at the sixth grade level,” Cleaver said, […]

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To Spit or Not to Spit, That is the Question

March 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Lie:
Hat tip: bravenewfoundation
“Tell the GOP: Apologize for your hate-spewing proxies in the Tea Party Patriots. It is not acceptable for you to build your party’s political fortunes by encouraging and defending bigotry and hatred among your supporters…Another spat on Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, also an African-American.”

The Truth:

24th State: “Video […]

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Tags: Rep. Emmanel Cleaver · Rep. Russ Carnahan

Quote of the Day: It “Leaves in its Wake the Unmistakable Smell of French Fries (With a Hint of Barbecue)”

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Congressman Cleaver’s $2,900 a month “mobile office”
Want a quick synopsis of classic and backward liberal thinking?
NY Times:
The van runs on diesel as well as recycled vegetable cooking oil collected periodically from a variety of Kansas City restaurants. The oil is purchased in 55 gallon drums at about 70 cents a gallon, Mr. Rotert said. […]

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Tags: Rep. Emmanel Cleaver · Picture/Quote of the Day