Tancredo goes off the deep end

September 14, 2005

I thought it was outrageous when Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) started popping off about using nuclear weapons on Mecca. It was almost as bad to see Tancredo urge GOP leaders not to let Louisiana officials have any direct access to federal disaster relief dollars after Hurricane Katrina. And Tancredo showed his true colors when he actually voted against the Bush-requested aid package for the Gulf Coast.

But now, the poor man has officially become a parody of himself.

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) requested that the Interior Department reverse plans to create a Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial in the shape of a crescent, citing the crescent’s prominent use in Islam. The architect who designed the memorial said the crescent design is meant to be a symbolic circle broken by the path of Flight 93. Nevertheless, Tancredo expressed concern that the controversial symbol might be thought to honor inadvertently the terrorists instead of the passengers who heroically stopped them.

This came from a press release issued by Tancredo’s office — not The Onion.

I’d heard that a few far-right activists were worked up about this, but for a member of Congress to wade into such bizarre nonsense might be a new low. And for Tancredo, that’s saying something.

How DO these nut cases get elected in the first place?

  • Tancredo’s district takes in a good chunk of the Denver suburbs. Mostly hyper-fundie Christians–remember, the Bernalls live there.

    A Dem CAN win this district–the only CO district that’s a lost cause is Joel Hefley’s 5th (Colorado Springs). But it would take a national Democratic landslide for that to happen–best we can hope for in a normal year is for him to get bounced by a RINO or a Ben Nighthorse Campbell in a primary.

  • Tancredo is becoming the poster boy for BSE syndrome. His mind has turned to mush and his incoherent babbling is the sad result. He actually thinks he is being helpful.
    Maybe its time for him to get a new job. Maybe John Bolton needs an
    executive assistant at the UN. They need great minds like Tancredo’s over there. His talents are being wasted in Colorado.
    If the Democrats were smart they would give Tancredo his own
    tv show so that the whole nation can see just how insane the GOP is
    these days. He almost makes Newt Gingrich look like Henry Clay.

  • Michele “Intern them all, let God sort em out” Malkin is ranting about the memorial as well. If I may paraphrase the immortal Daffy Duck: “Sheeethhs dethhhpiccable!”

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