Ellison Calls The Cops On Tancredo
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Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the freshman lawmaker sworn into Congress with his hand on a copy of a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson, doesn’t believe in Congressman Tom Tancredo’s (R-Colo.) right to smoke a cigar in Tancredo's congressional office.
The two lawmakers have neighboring offices. The smoke from Tancredo's cigar bothered Ellison, but instead of discussing the issue with his neighbor, the Capitol Hill Police were called:
On Wednesday evening, around 6 p.m., Tancredo was preparing for his trip to Mississippi. And as he so often does, he was unwinding with a cigar.
Soon enough, however, a police officer walked in to check on the smoke. The officer told Tancredo that the officer came because he was required to do so and not because the officer wanted to. The officer had already told Ellison that Tancredo was permitted to smoke in his office. The visit was more a formality.
Tancredo said he would not stop smoking in his office. “Heck, no!” he said. “If he [Ellison] would have [had] the courtesy to say something I’m sure I would have been more accommodating to his wishes.”
Is it asking for too much civility to expect Ellison to at least introduce himself first? Where I grew up that would still be considered the neighborly thing to do.
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Tancredo should pass the cigars around the office, cigarillos and panatellas for the ladies, stogies for the guys, and leave the hallway door open!
But a Master of the Universe's first thought is authority, the police, control,squash the unwelcome, no suprise here.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
be more accomodating to your own wishes, let the control freaks,liberals everywhere, stew in their own juices and boil in their intolerance. Ellison learns fast, one month in office and he's a god.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
per Sharia law. Okay, I'm exagerating but perhaps
this
was more in line with what he was thinking.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
Is Ellison PC posturing or is he an insufferably pious scold?
Is there a prayer rug controversy in the House's future?
Although not usually considered the best of ideas around here to quote her, here goes anyway:
"Not even the most earnest Christian can match the righteous indignation of a liberal who has found a lit cigarette in a non-smoking section..." - Ann Coulter
True, this isn't a non-smoking section (although I'm sure if they had their way, it might be), but still...
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
Smoking in your office could get you in trouble, but stashing bribe money and/or evidence there is okay.
The dems put the rookie next to Tancredo. That's funny!
My first thought as well. Someone with a twisted sense of humor (not necessarily a bad thing) is at work behind the scenes here.
What would Ellison do if he visited Obama's office and sees him smoking?
what an excelent represantitive of the left Ellison actually is. In typical fasion they resort to the use of government force first. That is, on our own people. If an enemy was attacking us they would roll over and play dead. Did you expect anything less from this one?
It is worth reiterating, every time Jefferson's Koran is mentioned, that he owned it to better understand how to defeat the warlike, slave trading Muslims of the Barbary Coast.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." - President Ronald Reagan
One Way Stox
Lib'l Ex.--Bingo!
do you have anything to say about the newly completed mosque they just finished building on the grounds at West Point?
Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
don't like the smell of smoke.
But a polite "hey I am in the office next door, and your cigar smoke is really bothering me, can we work something out" would be nice.
This is just an indication at the micro level of how bad things have gotten in DC with regards to partisanship.
Calling the cops is rediculous, and I am surprised that the cops even had to go.
The worst thing is the position Ellison put the Capitol Police and that police officer in. But I bet he never even thought of that.
is the position of any person who may have really needed police assistance at the time.
What has the better effect: senidng cigars to Ellison or Tancredo?
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.
and a cigar go well together after a nice dinner of barbequed pork ribs. I hope he drinks and eats well in front of Ellison, enjoys a nice cigar afterwards, and doesn't even require his secretary to wear veils and stuff.
My guess is, Ellison sort of hoped Tancredo would get so indignant that he would start a scuffle, that Ellison could then report on, but it didn't work. Oh well, always next time.
the cops on a Republican for smoking a cigar in his office.
I guess only in the Oval Office can you do what you want with a cigar...freaking losers!
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abe Lincoln
"Ellison’s press secretary, Rick Jauert, made the call to the Superintendent’s office when he noticed the smoke. “I called because the smoke was coming through the walls,” Jauert said, adding that the Superintendent’s office referred him to the Capitol Police.
Jauert said he then informed his boss what he had done. He said “fine,” Jauert said. “He’s complained of the smoke before.”"
So his press secretary is the one that made the call not the Congressman (but it does appear that he was fine with the call) and he had previously complained about the smoke...do we know to whom?
By punching him. He'll just punch you right back, and harder.
One of these days, the Dems and the rest of America's enemies will figure this out.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.
Ellison must be one of the wimpiest, whiniest, and weakest jokers ever elected to Congress. Right next to his buddy Henry Waxman.
I am looking forward to their defense of Tom Tancredo.