Tim Jones

Missouri Roundtable for Life: "Tim Jones Accpets $10,000 From Cloners, Passes $5,000 To Silvey"

Charles Jaco lets 'er rip: "It's a darn good thing there's almost no unemployment in Missouri that our schools are the nations best, our roads are in superb shape and none of our children live in poverty. Because, if none of that were true, you'd have to wonder why the Missouri legislature is wasting its time on nonsense. But since things are perfect, I guess they can get away with it."

Rep. John Diehl (R-Town & Country) is kind of a big deal when it comes to economic development (just ask him). He was the House’s chief negotiator of the amazing economic development bill which never made it out of the absolute, total failure of a special session last year which left Missouri's taxpayers on the hook for nearly $300,000 for a bunch of legislators who stood around making fools out of themselves on what turned out to be a really bad deal.

This leads to the question of why is one of Diehl's closest confidantes, Speaker Tilley (R-Perryville), kicking him off the Economic Development committee? Is someone being put in the time out chair? Diehl’s apartment may smell like rich mahogany and he may have many leather-bound books, but perhaps his incompetence has even his closest allies frustrated. And when your incompetence gets you kicked off, but others can do things like go 100% birther and question the President's citizenship and then turn around and be elected future speker… you should take a long hard look in the mirror.

The Missouri legislature started pre-filing some of the legisation they're expected to consider come January 4, 2012.  If you're so inclined, you can head here for the House or here for the Senate for full lists of what's been filed so far.

If you take the time to mosey on through the list of what's been filed in the House, you'll find this gem, HB 1046, filed by Lyle Rowland of the 143rd district in Southwest Missouri.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1046
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Requires proof of identity and proof of United States citizenship for the office of President and Vice President to be submitted with the other required certification documents to the Secretary of State

Such certification shall provide verifiable evidence of identity and of proof of status as a natural born citizen of the United States for each nominee and the origins of such evidence. Such evidence shall be in the form of the most complete record of birth available by the controlling legal authority at the time of the nominee's birth.

It would seem that sheer insanity and birtherism is alive and well in the Missouri legislature.  No word yet on whether Speker-to-be Birther Tim Jones has endorsed this piece of legislation.

Update: It should be noted that last year's version of the Birther Bill was cosponsored by Shane Schoeller who is wants to be Missouri's next Secretary of Birthers State.

Did you know that our Kenyan Usurper was behind yesterday's Occupy Wall Street actions in New York? Some dude who works for Fox News does, and Speaker-Elect Tim Jones does too.   

"President Obama organized this community of thugs," Todd Starnes and Jones say.

"Skim the Bill!"

Ann Wagner called the resolution passed by the Missouri House “an affront to a great corporate citizen of the St. Louis area and the state of Missouri.” This comes after an editorial from the St. Louis Post Dispatch taking the Missouri House leadership to task for passing the resolution.

The Resolution passed by the Missouri House disparaging Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet in favor of the Texas-built F-35 was wrong and is an affront to a great corporate citizen of the St. Louis area and the state of Missouri. The F/A-18 Super Hornet is important to the United States Military as they complete critical missions around the globe in the name of freedom and prosperity.

A big win for Steve Tilley, Birther Tim Jones, Jeff Roe and former possible statewide candidate Caleb Jones: "This is what the Republican-led Missouri House did Thursday when it was supposed to be debating a jobs bill in the now five-week old Missouri Legislature's special session: It took a break to pass a worthless — but not meaningless — resolution that directly slapped the face of one of the state's biggest employers. Missouri House Republicans have made their stance quite clear. They are pro-wasteful federal spending, pro-GOP consultant, pro-Texas. They're equally anti-middle class, anti-Boeing, anti-progress. And they are opposed to any jobs bill that might bring thousands of new jobs to St. Louis. We hope the business community that has been so generous with campaign funds for the House Republicans is paying attention."

Steve Tilley and Rob Mayer on the air

The Post-Dispatch's take on the struggling special session: "In America, but especially in Missouri, money talks. The man most responsible for delaying, and possibly killing, the bill you care about is named Steve Tilley, a Republican from Perryville who is speaker of the Missouri House. In recent years, Mr. Tilley has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the primary critics of your proposal: retired investor Rex Sinquefield, who also funds the think-tank Show-Me Institute, and developers who get rich from government programs intended to build low-income housing projects. Our suggestion is simple: Next time, put your money on the right horse."

The Star: "What went wrong? The simplest explanation is that Republican legislative leaders failed to do enough groundwork before asking Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon to call a special session. The barriers seen over the last three weeks involve GOP infighting in the Senate and disagreements between the Republican majorities in the Senate and House."

Missourinet's Bob Priddy: "Those of us who have been covering state government for a few decades have done something the legislature hasn’t been able to do.  We have reached a consensus. We agree that we’ve never seen a special legislative session that is such a mess as this one.  There already has been a bunch of finger pointing about who’s to blame.  There is no shortage of suspects."

Video of Speaker Steve Tilley speaking this afternoon after the House adjourned, via Jason Rosenbaum. 

Missouri's House Republicans tonight selected Tim Jones to be their Speaker Elect.  

Jones is an unapologetic birther who sued Barack Obama in federal court with Orly Taitz, Cynthia Davis and a few dozen other lunatics from around the country in 2009, alleging that Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya who has also committed all sorts of other crimes.  Jones also believes the Missouri Hospital Association is a "Marxist" organization that wants to "screw Missouri voters." He is a hot head who had to be physically restrained by his own colleagues on the House Floor in 2010. He believes global warming is "voodoo science." He believes that Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are unconstitutional. He also has a demonstrated record of referring to fellow Republican legislators as "terrorists" when they don't do what he likes. 

So obviously, Birther Tim is a great choice. Clearly, the man has the judgment, maturity and skills to be an amazing Speaker.  

In celebration of this positive development, we bring you once again a November 2010 blog post by Orly Taitz celebrating Jones' leadership in the Missouri General Assembly. 

GREAT NEWS! ONE OF MY CLIENTS IN ELIGIBILITY CASE, PROMINENT MO ATTORNEY TIMOTHY JONES BECOME THE SPEKER OF MO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. PLEASE, CONTACT HIM AND DEMAND THAT HE BRINGS THIS ISSUE TO THE FLOOR OF THE STATE HOUSE OF REP-S.   

Note to politicians: Anything you write on the internet is on the record. For instance, if you suggest government "should stop messing with health care," assume that might get some attention.

Maybe Rep. Tim Jones can explain to Missouri seniors and underprivileged children why he thinks they shouldn't receive help with their health care costs. Plus, polling in Missouri shows that 77 percent of Missourians are opposed to cutting Medicare and 63 percent are opposed to cutting Medicaid.

Mitt Romney, to put it mildly, is struggling to articulate a consitent message on President Obama's handling of the economy, and he has definitely backed away from his initial claim that the president has made the economy worse. 

Maybe his prominent Missouri supporters like State Auditor Tom Schweich and State Rep. Tim Jones can do some investigating and uncover his actual position.

However, the L.A. Times noted that it has become so bad that he seemed to contradict himself in the same sentence yesterday: 

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has struggled to craft a consistent economic message in recent weeks — first blaming President Obama for driving the country deeper into recession and then backing off that charge during a visit to Pennsylvania. On Monday in southern New Hampshire, he appeared to offer those conflicting messages within one sentence.

And the DNC has been having a field day with his verbal gymnastics on the economy. Here was his stated position yesterday:

The Springfield News-Leader reports that State Rep. Tim Jones is officially seeking to turn one of Orly Taitz's dreams into a reality: 

“Yes, I am going to be asking my caucus to elect me as speaker-elect.”

No word yet on Ms. Taitz's feelings about this major announcement from someone who signed on to her civil suit questioning President Obama's citizenship. Maybe she will contact Jones to personally congratulate him? 

It's good to see Republicans like Birther Tim Jones, Auditor Tom Schweich, Sen. Tom Dempsey and richperson Sam Fox finally come out in support of a health insurance mandates.  

Tax incentives to increase health coverage used to be pretty standard fare for conservative politicians -- former Sen. Kit Bond cosponsored legislation in the 1990s with a health insurance mandate.But intellectual honesty isn't exactly in vogue in GOP circles these days. 

See, for example, candidate Mitt Romney on just about any issue that matters. 

There are actual terrorists in the world.  I don't think there are any in the Missouri General Assembly.

From the Missouri News Horizon: "An amendment that would require presidential candidates to present proof of natural born citizenship was trimmed from an omnibus election law reform bill. The amendment was removed, along with several others, by a joint conference committee in hopes that the final bill can pass by the end of the legislative session on Friday."

It's great to see reasonable people prevail on this matter, especially given the many birther and birther-curious legislators in the General Assembly.

The White House has decided in April 2011 to release our Muslim Socialist Usurper's long form birth certificate on the interwebs, on the apparent belief that birther whackadoos will somehow be satisfied with a picture of said document posted on the interwebs by Muslim Socialist Usurper's loyal Nazi Snitches. Here it is:

As you can see, this is an obvious fraud.  Tim Jones, Cynthia Davis, Orly Taitz and co-plaintiffs from around the country filed the *real* birth certificate for Barry Soetoro in federal court in 2009.  Actually, they filed two competing Kenyan birth certificates, one of which just has to be real. 

"With all due respect, [Jason Crowell] may run the Senate, but he doesn't run the House."

~ Speaker Steve Tilley, reacting to questions from reporters about Congressional redistricting negotiations (h/t Capitol Calling)

Here's video of Tilley's comments as captured by Jason Rosenbaum.

Roy Blunt going full birther in 2009

The National Journal has a story today featuring GOP consultants begging DC reporters to believe that the birther nonsense their party has fostered as a political strategy for years now is just a "sideshow" that no "responsible Republican" has been talking about. 

I suppose it all depends on how you define "responsible." Long before Donald Trump cynically decided to talk about Barack Obama's citizenship as a way to generate ridiculous amounts of media attention and boost his poll numbers with GOP primary votes, ostensibly "responsible" Republicans in Washington, Missouri and every other state worked to nurture doubts and lies about the President's citizenship. 

Here in the Show-Me State, Roy Blunt, Majority Leader/Future Speker Tim Jones and a long list of other GOP state legislators have all been a part of this garbage -- with almost no condemnation or attention from mainstream media voices.  Just last week, the Missouri Birther Caucus added language to a omnibus elections bill championed by GOP Speaker Pro Tem Shane Schoeller, Jason Smith (R-Salem), Lyle Rowland  (R-Cedarcreek), Mike Kelley (R-Lamar), Kevin Elmer (R-Nixa), Don Wells (R-Kwik Kash), Darrell Pollack (R-Lebanon), Don Phillips (R-Kimberling City), Barney Fisher (R-Richards), Melissa Leach (R-Springfield), Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia), Tom Loehner (R-Koeltztown), Dave Hinson (R-St. Clair), Lindell Shumake (R-Hannibal), Andrew Koenig (R-Winchester) and Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton) to keep the conspiracy drumpbeat alive.

So if GOP consultants and elites are willing to say that Blunt, Jones and the rest of the bunch have been irresponsible, I'll be happy to agree.  But if the reasonable public is being asked to accept some pre-2012 spin that this is just a "fringe" conspiracy theory that doesn't have wide acceptance with allegedly mainstream Republicans, then fahgettaboudit.

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In completely unrelated news: "Forty-five percent of registered Republicans think Obama was born outside the U.S., 33 percent believe he was and 22 percent don't know, per the results of a CBS News/New York Times survey."