It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented a profile of the sitting U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s Mark Walker, the current U.S. House Representative for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, who has already caught our attention while serving in his freshman term in office. As some of our more extreme GOP House members seem to be, Mark Walker was a newcomer to politics, only formerly serving as a pastor before jumping into politics in 2014, where he has deeply concerned for his psychological stability. At a town hall, he derided Islam, saying, “You can’t have a religion of peace when you’ve got nearly a billion (that’s with a “b”) people chopping off heads all over the country.” He also talked of impeaching President Obama for things he never did and will never do, like refusing to leave office, instituting Sharia Law, and “spending billions on vacations” (Obama spent less time on vacation than any president in decades). Walker also casually discussed going to war with Mexico to stop border crossings (because that wouldn’t make more people flee there), saying the military along the border could “laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets”. He felt war with Mexico would be okay because “We’ve done it before.” Ah, a pastor willing to go to war over immigration, just like Jesus would have wanted. Walker also made a threat to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, and his belief that any criticism of North Carolina’s HB2 law is “bullying” (which is precisely backwards) and perpetuating the myth that transgendered citizens are assaulting women in public bathrooms. Walker’s outlook on climate change from his website isn’t just denial, but a partisan attack on Democrats, or as he called them, the “secular left”, who he accuses of using the issue to get rich. Anyway, during the GOP Primary in 2014, Pastor Walker, not surprisingly, stated his absolute dedication to being pro-life, without exceptions. Once he got to the general election of course, he suddenly DID believe in exceptions for rape and incest. His voting record once he got to office indicates his primary stance was his true one.
On June 21st, 2016, as House Democrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after the largest mass shooting in modern history in Orlando, trying to force Speaker Paul Ryan and Republicans to vote on legislation to make sure that those on the no-fly-list for being suspected terrorists could also not by firearms to carry out terror attacks…Paul Ryan attempted to hide the GOP’s embarrassment by cutting C-SPAN cameras filming the sit-in, only to discover Democrats were filming it on Periscope, and providing live-feeds on the internet. Mark Walker wasn’t going to take the protest in stride, and got on Twitter to shame the Democrats for their gun control support, by comparing their move to the REAL masters of the sit-in, who fought during the Civil Rights era:
“Calling this a sit-in is a disgrace to Woolworth’s. They sat-in for rights. Dems are ‘sitting-in’ to strip them away”
There was just one immense problem with that line of attack… one of the leaders of the Democratic sit-in was Georgia Congressman John Lewis. As in, civil rights hero John Lewis, who crossed the bridge in Selma only to be clubbed in the head by police, and actually SAT at the Woolworth’s lunch counter that Mark Walker was referencing during his social media white-splaining. There’s barking up the wrong tree, and then there’s putting on a dog suit and yapping at a cactus until you get poked in the nose. Walker had done the latter.
Now, while we just laid out how plainly bats*** insane Mark Walker is (and all of the above points occurred within his first three years arriving on the political scene… ALL THAT IN ONLY THREE YEARS), he still won re-election in a district that leans pretty hard to the right by a whopping 19 points in 2016 over Democrat Pete Glidewell. He thus has been allowed to return to our nation’s capitol to take part in one of the most abysmally and abjectly terrible sessions of Congress in decades:
- February 16th, 2017: Walker votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
- March 16th, 2017: Mark Walker votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge’s written order. We feel safer already.
- March 28th, 2017: Rep. Walker votes for SJ Res 34, which allowed internet providers to sell the data information of their customers’ internet usage to businesses. Well, so much for privacy.
- May 4th, 2017: Walker votes for the House GOP’s healthcare plan, that would kick rougly 24 million people off their health insurance plans, allow up to 28,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, and would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions which would include such medical conditions as pregnancy (current or past), post-partum depression, or prior sexual assault.
Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Walker would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
- June 8th, 2017: Mark Walker votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
Mark Walker was torched by his constituents in a town hall he hosted in March, where many were turned away from attending, and only eleven… ELEVEN people were allowed to ask questions. The less than a dozen who did so, though, were concerned about the AHCA and its potential effects, and called out Rep. Walker on several attempts to lie or deflect to justify his vote for that god-awful legislation.
We will finish our update by pointing out that with such relevant issues happening in our country such as Russia hacking into our election systems, or how we could better protect those voting systems… Mark Walker likes to get on social media to focus on other, more pressing issues. Issues as poignant as how he wanted to complain about “government waste” evidenced by the installation of small ramps near the reflecting pool in our nation’s capitol so that ducklings can get in and out without drowning.
Mark Walker, ladies and gentleman. A soul so compassionate, he’d rather see dead baby animals on his way to work than have any solution created with taxpayer dollars. A man who is only pro-life as it applies to fetuses, and not any living being.
And now he’s a two-term Congressman. Just… damn it.
One Year Ago, July 26th, 2016: Mark Walker (NC)… 2016 Update
Two Years Ago, July 26th, 2015: Allen West (FL)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, July 26th, 2014: Allen West (FL)