Here’s a quote for ya. Let’s see if you can guess the source:
“And of course, the reason is we’ve proved that Communism works. If you give everybody a good government job, there’s no crime.”
Now, who said that? Lenin? Khrushchev? Stalin? Brezhnev? Mao? Castro? The leader of the Shining Path, or some other Communist guerrilla group? Maybe Marx, speaking of his future Communist utopia?
Nope. None of the above.
If you guessed a current Member of Congress from South Florida – give yourself a big honking Attaboy (or Attagirl).
No, I’m not joking. It was Representative Joe Garcia of Florida. He currently represents western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys.
I’ll leave figuring out Rep. Garcia’s political party affiliation as the proverbial “exercise for the reader.”
Predictably, Garcia has since backed away from his statement. He’s now claiming that he never intended to endorse Communism and was being “tongue in cheek” when he made the remark.
Of course, this was the same Congressman who was also caught on-camera engaging in what can at best be described as rather disgusting personal behavior – on live TV (House Jusdiciary Committe markup, broadcast live on C-Span). And who’s also featured video of himself hanging out with a politician awaiting arrested last summer on public corruption charges in a recent political ad (which has since been pulled from Youtube). And who thinks we have a “border problem” in Puerto Rico.
So personally I just don’t buy his claim of, “I was just kidding.”
“Tongue in cheek”, hell – try “foot-in-mouth Freudian slip”. Or maybe, “I was just doing what comes naturally – being the village idiot.”
Hopefully the good voters of South Florida will replace this moron idiot fool with someone of at least normal intelligence in November.
