Truth is, former oil man and now Republican Congressman Trent Franks, who's definitely in the running for the looniest congressman from the looniest state, can link any topic to abortion. In the mid-80s Franks founded the Arizona Family Research Institute, the local version of Dobson's Focus on the Family. He was elected to the state legislature in 1984 running primarily on one issue: abortion. When Franks was elected to the US House in 2002, he arrived in DC with one goal: overturn Roe v Wade, and his entire tenure has been devoted to doing just that.
This spring during the Planned Parenthood debate, when Senator Kyl was citing statistics that were "not intended to be factual statements," Congressman Franks said Planned Parenthood "kills children for profit." And remember this old ditty, when he told African American families that abortion is worse than slavery ever was?
Representative Trent Franks, Republican of Arizona, became the latest offender on Friday when he said the high abortion rate among African-Americans has done greater harm to their population than slavery. "Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery." NY Times
Abortion is not his only schtick, of course. He's an equal opportunity dimwit. Franks is "skeptical" about global warming, but not about the grave dangers to civilization if gays and lesbians marry. He never saw an anti-GLBT law he didn't like, and he's the guy, you may recall, who believes Obama should be impeached for no longer supporting the Defense of Marriage Act.
A member of Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus, who of course has signed Grover's pledge, Franks also said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) should be investigated for planting spies in Congress:
CAIR said it had a particular interest in influencing the judiciary, intelligence and homeland security committees. . . . Mrs. Myrick and Republican Reps. John Shadegg of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and Trent Franks of Arizona called Wednesday for an investigation by the House sergeant-at-arms into whether CAIR was successful in planting congressional interns. Salon
You get the picture. So yesterday on the House floor, Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. asked Franks about the constitutionality of a balanced budget amendment, focusing his question on the separation of powers. Over the do-hickey is Jackson's question:
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