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GOP Rep: I’d Have To Personally Kill Some Senators To Get The Ryan Budget Passed

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Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) sent Talking Points Memo a public apology Thursday after the site obtained audio of the five-term Republican telling constituents at a town hall this week that he’d have to personally shoot members of the U.S. Senate to get a budget passed through the chamber.

Sullivan, a conservative Republican from Oklahoma’s First District, was at a town hall meeting in Bixby, Okla., Wednesday when he lamented that the Paul Ryan Budget which the House passed earlier this year had no chance of passage in the Senate:

Like I said, after this last election, the first order of business is pass a budget. Now, I believe that. I supported the Paul Ryan budget and sent it over to the Senate. Now I live with some Senators, I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him and I’d love to get them to vote for it — boy I’d love that. You know but other than me going over there with a gun and holding it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.

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  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com PunditPawn

    The truth isn’t always easy.

  • Anonymous

    “Now I live with some Senators, I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him”

    This reeks of overcompensation. Later he continued:

    “You shoulda seen me!  Hoooo-boy!  I was all like… ‘Ima kill you sons-of-bitches’ And they was actin all scared and stuff! I’m sorry could you please repeat the question?”

  • Anonymous

    Damn, John!
    I don’t think I would have said that.

  • Anonymous

    This is a perfect reflection of what the Repugnant Party has sunk to.I guess after Arizona,their new belief has centered around changing things to their “MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY” viewpoint, by using an agent of change called a firearm.It shouldn’t surprise a majority of Americans, since most hate groups center around the neo-conservative theory.Just like it shouldn’t surprise America that you’ll be hard pressed to hear the 1st peep from the pitchfork toting/torch bearing rabble that supports their nonsense.I’m certain Lincoln is looking down just shaking his head, WTF’S up with my Party?

  • Anonymous

    *Cue fake left-wing outrage*

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  • Anonymous

    Republicans were outraged that some from Texas sent an opinion piece to USA Today about how OWS protesters should make use of their 2nd amendment rights when they occupy. Meanwhile an elected Republican congressman makes a threat about personally killing senators & congressman, but that’s just a figure of speech, right?

  • Anonymous

     Go look up “projection” in the dictionary.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Seems like a good guy.

  • Anonymous

    From the movie an Officer and a Gentleman…..”the only things that come from Oklahoma are queers and steers” and apparently an asshole too.

  • Anonymous

    If you really feel you have to kill people to get something passed, then maybe, just maybe the problem lies in the budget..The Ryan budget is packed with enough poison to ensure no democrat that voted for it would ever be electable again and everyone knows it.

  • Anonymous

    Heee Heee Heee. You so funny!

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure once the raving lunatics get a hold of this information, they will be generously contributing to his re-election campaign.  

  • labman57

    Obama was right — Republicans really do cling to God and their guns as the primary means to solving problems.

  • Anonymous

    Politics is a team sport–until you break out the guns!

  • Anonymous

    Remember, there’s no “i” in “handgun.”

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think it’s fair to comment on Rep. Sullivan’s plan without finding out which senators he planned to shoot.

  • Centrist79

    Here is another reason for gun control.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    For sure. And his comment was so accurate, I wouldnt apologize.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Ill send him some bullet money if Harry reid is on the list.

  • stephen rhymer

    typical of his ilk of Republicans in Oklahoma.  the state legislature is getting ready to pass an open carry law so least Sullivans potential victims will see that he is armed when he comes for them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZSKETECBAFDEAUOUML4ICTKLAA Alex

    Liberals are the ones who act all holier-than-thou about so-called “violent rhetoric” in the term of metaphors. On the other hand, the OWS protesters, Wisconsin union protesters, and Bush protesters like Code Pink and ANSWER actually threaten, specifically call for people’s deaths, loot and pillage during their protests.
    After all the crying about Tea Parties talking about second amendment rights, why does the party that wants to take them away condone things like that op-ed?

  • Anonymous

    If the Ryan plan passed it would probably kill more
    of the poor seniors, lack of care when vouchers are used up, lack of money, the
    poor seniors are already barely making it and with the extra cash they don’t
    have they can come up with an extra $6000 per year, $500 per month and let the
    super rich, pharmaceutical, health insurance companies and medicals make the
    most profit ever. Yes just kill the poor seniors that should do the trick.

  • Anonymous

    This wasn’t some random frige loon. This was an actual member of congress saying such things.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Just give ‘em each Democrat  moron a ream of disheveled paper, John.
    They are so thin-skinned….a paper cut would kill them

  • Anonymous

    republicans advocate killing Americans.  big surprise.

    after all, they were upset when their boy osama was taken out by the commander in chief.

  • Anonymous

    “ You know but other than me going over there with a gun and holding it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.”

    Hopefully democracy will keep working too….

  • Anonymous

    I have lots of aunts, cousins and an uncle in Oklahoma.  If they had vouchers like the Ryan plan calls for, they would all be dead from starvation and lack of medical care.  People – especially the Republicans forget that the RED states use more of the government entitlements than the BLUE states.  Yes, the blue states are in effect supporting the red states.  To think that a lot of them like this bonehead carry loaded guns on their pickup racks and are ready to shoot should be against the law.  Gabby was serving her country and her constituents, yet some brainwashed turkey took it upon himself to kill a little 9 year old girl and others as well as changing Gabby’s life forever.  Maybe it is time instead for the good people of Oklahoma to vote this yahoo out.

  • Anonymous

    I think any real leader of the House of Representatives would call upon Rep Sullivan to explain his remarks to the entire House of Representatives.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the laugh, but I will have to say that there are some good people who do come from Oklahoma.  I must also say that they usually don’t stay there!!  During the 2008 election, I happened to be at my 90 year old aunt’s house in a small southern town in Oklahoma.  She was supporting Obama for president but told me she couldn’t put a yard sign up or else people might shoot out her windows. 

  • Anonymous

    Thats their intention. They know it won’t be voted on because its crap but they do get to say “we’re doing our job and their not”. An effort to hide their ineffective behaviour 

  • Anonymous

    Ethical? Christian? Good American? Insane? NO! NO! NO! YES!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572292487 Nancy Wade-Hull

    Gabrielle Giffords.

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