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March 31, 2006
Profiles in Moonbattery: Cynthia McKinney
Posted by Dave Blount at March 31, 2006 7:09 AM
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), the same one who shares Charlie Sheen's opinion that President Bush was behind 9/11, made the news yesterday by punching a member of the U.S. Capitol Police for expecting her to go through a metal detector at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
As a spokesman for House Speaker Denny Hastert observed:
On a day when the Democrats are promoting their national security agenda, it's probably not a good idea for them to allegedly strike police officers.
McKinney has had trouble with Capitol Hill security before. Naturally, she suspects them of racism. Slate reported back in 2002:
In August 1993, during her first term in office, a Capitol Hill police officer tried to prevent her from bypassing a metal detector, as members of Congress are allowed to do. For years afterward, The Hill reports, the Capitol Police pinned a picture of McKinney to an office wall, warning officers to learn her face because she refuses to wear her member's pin. (And because officers are innately suspicious of a black woman with braided hair and gold shoes.)
McKinney is probably best known for groveling in an attempt to lay her paws on the $10 million that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal offered to New York in the aftermath of 9/11. Rudy Giuliani had rejected the money because it came attached to the prince's view that America had brought 9/11 on itself.
She has also distinguished herself by being one of only six representatives to vote against a measure commemorating the fourth anniversary of 9/11, and one of only three to vote yes when Republicans called Moonbat Jack Murtha's bluff and put his call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq up for a vote.
Among McKinney's legislative accomplishments is the recent introduction of a bill "to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur," the infamous rap thug. The bill has no cosponsors.
Hat tips: Wiggins, William
