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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: John Carter- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-08-14
On this day in both 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented a profile of the sitting U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 31st Congressional District, John Carter, now in his eleventh term in Washington, coming into office back in 2002 after spending two decades as a district court judge in the Lone Star state. Carter almost always coasts to victory when his seat comes up for re-election, with his worst showing being a still-impressive 58% of the vote back in the “blue wave” election year of 2006. Due to the extensive bounty of Texas Republicans out there exhibiting obvious signs of mental deficiency or psychological imbalance out there, you might not have heard much about Rep. Carter. Well, that and when you do a Google search of "John Carter" you either get news about a movie that completely tanked at the box office, or art inspired from the book it’s based on featuring a shirtless guy posing with a scantily clad Martian woman wrapped demurely around his leg. I'll wait a moment while everyone tests that fact to ogle some cheesecake and/or beefcake.
Okay, back to Congressman Carter, now. Our main objection to John Carter being in Congress is not just that he opposes climate change, but to the extent that he does. He actually thinks a phenomenon proven by the great majority of scientific studies is just the result of some massive campaign to trick the populace into supporting it:
And that's right off his campaign website. If that quote alone doesn't show you how deep he's into the cause of climate change denial, feel free to read some of his other comments from the Congressional record on January 24th, 2011.
John Carter was also a huge proponent of the 2013 Government Shutdown, and he was in full spin mode in the build up to it, trying to convince the American people that his cause was noble, and if he didn’t bring the federal government to a screeching halt, and the Affordable Care Act was allowed to go forward, that all would be lost:
One of the things about John Carter that we find unsettling, though, is that he was the Chairman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Committee, and one of his responsibilities was preventing cyberterrorism. It's quite troublesome that Rep. Carter cannot even pronounce the word "cyber", admitted "I don't know anything about this stuff", and then proceeded to try and conduct a hearing to discuss encryption where he would demonstrate how much of an understatement that really was. Now in his eighties John Carter doesn’t “get” technology, and doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to figure it out, with our national security hanging in the balance.
While the rest of Carter's opinion on national security past that, of course, is to keep out all immigrants and refugees, and his voting record since hitting office has been highly partisan, supporting a resolution towards creating a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, voted against equal pay, a woman’s right to choose, against Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, for the 2013 Government Shutdown and against reopening the government after it was over.
Only seven days after January 6th, 2021, Carter was fighting against any investigations or consequences for anyone, including arguing that Donald Trump shouldn’t be impeached and barred from running for office again because “he only has seven days left”. Predictably, he is now upset that Donald Trump is facing any indictments or consequences for it, at all.
As his voting record goes on…
John Carter is now 82 years old, and in 2022 won an eleventh term in office after coasting through the GOP Primary and all his potential Democratic opponents having been disqualified. He has already declared his intent to run for re-election for a twelfth term in 2024.
We’re going to go drink heavily, facing that fact.
One Year Ago, August 14th, 2022: John Carter (TX)… 2022 Update
Two Years Ago, August 14th, 2021: John Carter (TX)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, August 14th, 2020: John Carter (TX)… 2020 Update
Four Years Ago, August 14th, 2019: John Carter (TX)… 2019 Update
Five Years Ago, August 14th, 2018: John Carter (TX)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, August 14th, 2017: John Carter (TX)… 2017 Update
Seven Years Ago, August 14th, 2016: John Carter (TX)… Original Profile
Eight Years Ago, August 14th, 2015: Ken Cuccinelli (VA)… 2015 Update
Nine Years Ago, August 14th, 2014: Ken Cuccinelli (VA)… Original Profile
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