Stark Raving

Via Hot Air and Michelle Malkin. Here's Democratic Representative of California Pete Stark: "You get the f*ck out of here or I'll throw you out the window."

The clip's actually a year old, which goes to show that you can do and say pretty much anything and survive as a politician these days.

The bigger laugh for me comes when Stark constantly asks the interviewer if he has an economics degree, a master's degree, or has ever taken a class in economics.

Which would prove what? All the economic eggheads in America were running the show last year and the economy took a mammoth powder. Personally, I'd feel much better with a plumber running the economy. At least the guy would do some basic math and figure out that spending far more than he earns will put him under.

Maxim: when a man with basic common sense confronts a self-described intellectual, the intellectual will lose his temper first.

Maxim: when someone asks if you have a college degree, you have won the argument.

Want more fun from the "intellectual" Stark? No problem. Here it comes, from an incident in 2004:

In May 2004, Stark responded to a constituent Army National Guard member's letter critical of Stark's recent vote on the war in Iraq by immediately calling the service member's telephone and leaving a feisty response on voicemail which was later broadcast on San Francisco's talk radio station KSFO.[8] Stark's harsh voicemail was transcribed as follows:

“Dan, this is Congressman Pete Stark, and I just got your fax. And you don't know what you're talking about. So if you care about enlisted people, you wouldn't have voted for that thing either. But probably somebody put you up to this, and I'm not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in the letter, and somebody wrote it for you. So I don't pay much attention to it. But I'll call you back later and let you tell me more about why you think you're such a great goddamn hero and why you think that this generals [sic] and the Defense Department, who forced these poor enlisted guys to do what they did, shouldn't be held to account. That's the issue. So if you want to stick it to a bunch of enlisted guys, have your way. But if you want to get to the bottom of people who forced this awful program in Iraq, then you should understand more about it than you obviously do. Thanks.

For the record, the clown's been in office since 1973. Must be a pretty brilliant guy.

The money quote comes in the last five seconds: