“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.” Hank Johnson, (D-GA)
Guam has been occupied by the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese and is an American Territory. My Dad still carries Japanese grenade fragments that he got as souvenirs on Guam from July 21st through Oct. 1945, with a trip to Iwo Jima in between.
I wrote a novel, read by tens of people, centered on Guam.
Today, a Georgia Congressman warned that Guam might tip over. Thoughtful.
Hank Johnson begged America to get behind Obama Care. This intellectual Giant just might help President Obama earn government control over all of us beasts of the earth.
Hank, you are a caution.
Click my post title for more from Hank, hat tip to Max Weismann and Anne Leary's Backyard Conservative
Is your objection to his use of an comically exagerated metaphor? Or do you think he sincerely believes that the island will tip over?
ReplyDeleteLots of people use over the top metaphors for effect. It's hard to tell from just that one quote.
Dominick,
ReplyDeleteCongressman Hank, like many of his elected brethren, is as dumb as hammered horse$hit.
The Gent meant it - literally.
Do, avail yourself of the full thread from the Atlanta Constitution by clicking the post title.
Thanks, Pat. The article quoes the Congressman as specifically stating that it was a metaphor--not ambiguous on that point.
ReplyDeleteDumb he may or may not be, but I don't see how using a metaphor proves it.
That was his staff doing the heavy-lifting for the poor chap, Dominick Old Son.
ReplyDeleteImagine the terror in his eyes were he to hear
'Georgia on my mind!'
"Look up, Hank! The State is falling!"