On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Kansas’ 3rd District, Kevin Yoder, who we noted was a part of the Republican delegation that visited Israel in August of 2012 that got blitzed out of their minds on liquor, and in the ultimate combination of being high on Judeo-Christian faith and wasted on Jaegermeister from that huge bar tab on taxpayers dime… went skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee. While on official business for our government. He was re-elected in spite of this admission, because he only faced a Libertarian candidate in 2012, and has gone on to vote against the Farm Bill (despite serving a district in a state with a lot of farms), and to hide from reporters for weeks after he snuck an amendment onto a budget bill can to chip away at Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, feeling that Wall Street banks should be allowed the “freedom” to do everything stupid that caused the 2007 Great Recession all over again. (His biggest campaign contributors, of course, are Wall Street banks.) Yoder, voted by Washington media as “one of the biggest party animals in Congress”, also has the hypocrisy of voting against disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims, but asking for tornado relief whenever one hits his district, voted to defund Planned Parenthood in 2011, but maintain government funding towards NASCAR sponsorships, and did not just vote for the 2013 Government Shutdown, but voted against e-opening the government when the time came. He is also not above hyperventilating about the GOP outrage of the moment, including his call for a travel ban to Africa during the 2014 Ebola Virus outbreak in spite of the advice of all medical experts, and voting for bills like the “No More Solyndras Act”, the “Stop the War on Coal Act”, and the “Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act”. He has underhandedly worked to subvert Dodd-Frank legislation, even voted against the bipartisan-supported Farm Bill (which Kansas tends to like, what with the farms that are famously in Kansas) and didn’t just vote against the Planned Parenthood videos, he sent an open letter to House Speaker John Boehner where he described the selectively edited, fraudulent “sting” videos created by the Center for Medical Progress and feigned outrage over their supposed practices that “harvest and sell baby organs”, and graphically describing “innocent children, ripped from their mother’s womb and their skulls crushed”. Even though, y'know, that wasn’t based in reality.
With a Blue Wave election looming in 2018, Kevin Yoder started skipping town halls and practically hiding from his own constituents, who took notice that he was only taking meetings with big banks and payday loan executives,.or say, Ivanka Trump. Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District till does have a +4 Republican lean, but that wasn’t enough to save Yoder from having a boot placed firmly in his arse in 2018, as he ended up losing to new Congresswoman Sharice Davids by almost ten full percentage points, even with that advantage. We hope that now that he has free time, that he might, as a private citizen, make himself happy by returning to the Holy Land to go skinny-dipping again. Really, we’re just willing to compromise and settle for telling him to go jump in a lake.
Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Kevin Yoder- 2019 Update
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