QOTD II -- Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud

"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred thousand were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake." -- Inept Republican ratfucker Jack Burkman, quoted in a tape recording with a woman with whom he was conspiring (along with fellow clown Republican ratfucker Jacob Wohl) to frame Dr. Anthony Fauci for a phony sexual assault (!!).  The woman was queasy about her potential role in smearing someone so critical to the pandemic response. Well, the same "argument" is coming from all corners of the right, perhaps prompted by Dear Leader's notion of having the pandemic "wash over" the country."  The "party of life":  hypocrites, sociopaths, racists, and social Darwinists.

FBI Asked To Investigate Republican Ratf*cking Scheme Targeting Robert Mueller

Lock them up!  Lock them up!

An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual-assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office told The Atlantic. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” the spokesman, Peter Carr, told me in an email on Tuesday. 

The special counsel’s office’s attention to this scheme—which was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual-harassment claims against Mueller—and its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation. 

The special counsel’s office confirmed that the scheme was brought to its attention by several journalists who were told about it by a woman alleging  that she herself had been offered roughly $20,000 by a man claiming to work for a GOP activist named Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.”...

The name Jack Burkman may not ring a bell, but he's a creepy Republican operative who's quite familiar with paying ladies for services rendered.  As the article points out, he's also been involved in pushing some of the most evil crackpot conspiracies over the past few years. This won't end well for him and the other ratf*ckers (Jacob Wohl? Soon- to- be- indicted Roger Stone?) involved in this smear.

Here's Burkman trying to sell the smear:

Some sad news.  On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn
Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and
grace and strength of my client. pic.twitter.com/wZVQeHD45r

— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 30, 2018

Burkman will be the sad one when the FBI cuffs him and frog marches him away. This reprehensible asshole needs some serious time in stir.

BONUS:  Here's more on Burkman and the scheme.

Wanker of the Week

Republican lobbyist/ strategist Jack Burkman is drafting legislation to ban gays from the National Football League.  Why?  Family values!

”We are losing our decency as a nation,” Burkman said in a statement. "Imagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man. That’s a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?”

"We're losing our decency as a nation," he says.  A little background on this family values Republican might be in order:

Jack Burkman, the GOP strategist and conservative talking head who used to be seen on the cable news shows a lot more often before his MySpace sleazery was exposed, is also on the DC Madam’s phone list! 

And yes, that’s the same Jack Burkman who worked for James Dobson’s Family Research Council as a lobbyist for, you know, conservative family values.

If you're keeping score, for Burkman it's "Hos good, ho-mos bad!"

Because who ever heard of a gay man in the NFL?!