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Archive for the 'Buttars' Category
Choosy Mothers Don’t Choose Wingnut Buttars
Posted by Clif on 04/20/07 at 9:11 am
Category: Buttars
The comments of Utah wingnut Chris Buttars on the recent anti-abortion ruling of the Supreme Court tells us how he really feels about women:
Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, said he, too, would be willing to sponsor a trigger bill that hinges on a repeal of Roe v. Wade, “which we all believe will happen some day.”
Such a law should consider the life of the mother, but not her health, Buttars said. “If you just consider the health of the mother, is it ‘Will she be tired more often?’ or is it something much more serious in the ladder of health deterioration?”
Answering that question is why we go to doctors for medical care and not to dim-witted right-wing state legislators who believe that God lives on the planet Kolob.
Chris Buttars Caption Contest
Posted by Clif on 02/24/07 at 6:24 pm Category: Buttars
Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, left, and Lee Gardner (Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune)
Utah Republican state senator Chris Buttars is shown above being chased down by a dodo as part of a publicity stunt for Flock of Dodos, a new documentary film on the intelligent-design-atics. I’m sure that one of you faithful Outsiders™ can come up with a snappy caption in comments.
Whatever It Takes, Fluffy
Posted by Clif on 02/22/07 at 11:02 pm Category: ButtarsUtah Republican State Senator Chris Buttars today once again pushed the envelope of wingnuttery into uncharted territory with his criticism of Utah legislation that would make animal torture (not animal cruelty but animal torture) a felony:
Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, said he is worried about the stigma people convicted of torturing an animal would face and that they would never be allowed to own a gun.
“Man, talk about being marked,” said Buttars. “To make a felon out of a person that does something foolish and wrong and then mark them for life on employment (applications) and they can’t ever own or enjoy a firearm. … That’s just wrong.”
Because you know just because a bunch of fellows get a little stoked up while watching 24 and decide to waterboard the family Shih Tzu, that doesn’t mean they should never again be able to shoot cats in the backyard, does it?
Surprise of the Month
Posted by Clif on 01/26/07 at 2:16 am Category: Buttars, Politics
Utah Republican state senator Chris Buttars responded yesterday to an initiative to repeal Utah’s sodomy statute by vowing to fight the bill “all the way” and by revealing more than anyone wants to know about his sex life:
You can like sodomy, I don’t,” he said. “I think sodomy is sickening.
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Buttars v. Brown v. Board of Education
Posted by Clif on 08/23/06 at 12:15 am Category: Buttars, Loathsome RepublicansThe Utah Council of Mormons Legislature is preparing for its 2007 session,which means that Utah Republican and professional cretin Chris Buttars is at it again. Buttars’ credentials as a dim-witted homophobe are well-established so he decided to add racist to his resume, no doubt in hopes of increasing his chances of re-election in Utah.
On Monday, during an interview with KVNU Radio, Buttars declared that the landmark decision ending school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, was “wrong to begin with.” That’s just only a few steps short of saying that Eichman got a raw deal.
Today he was interviewed on KCPW and dug himself even deeper into a hole. Buttars not-so-brilliant attempt at damage control was to say that parts of Brown were good and other parts were bad. Of course, you might wonder what part of ending school segregation was bad. Well, according to Buttars, it was this:
There’s some things that Brown vs. Board of Education did that was [sic] wonderful, as I mentioned, by getting some of these minority kids in schools with more money, but in a lot of ways, once again, it broke up the educational system that was designed to maximize the number of minority kids in many schools in the South — that was my concern.”
That’s right, kids. Brown was good because it put some black kids in white schools but bad because it broke up a system designed to keep most black kids in the same schools. Give Buttars a chance and he’ll probably say that the bad thing about the Allied victory in WWII was it broke up a system designed to “maximize the number of Jews in many camps in Poland.”
Click play below to listen to th KCPW interview in its entirety. Buttars sounds as stupid as he appears in print:
Father Knows Incest
Posted by Clif on 03/1/06 at 7:43 pm Category: Buttars
As this session of the Utah legislature winds to a close, Gayle Ruzicka, the head of the Utah Eagle Forum, and her flying monkey, Republican state Senator Chris Buttars, have been doing their best to push their wacko wingnut legislative initiatives through the final days of the session. Buttars’ bill to teach “Divine Design” in the Utah Schools, however, was finally rejected by the Utah legislature, but only apparently because Utah congressmen thought that the term “Divine Design” sounded too gay and shouldn’t be taught in school at all.
Gayle, however, saw even more devious reasons for the bill’s defeat:
Gayle Ruzicka, president of the conservative Eagle Forum, said . . . lawmakers . . . owed Buttars a little more than just gutting the bill and then failing it.
She said he put his life at risk for the bill since Buttars was supposed to be in the hospital the day he presented it in the Senate. Buttars has been absent much of the session with an undisclosed illness. . . .
“I think they owed him more than that.”
Gayle’s argument that the bill should have passed as a sympathy vote for Buttars is more than a little strange, but, then again, Gayle is more than a little strange. Suppose that the sponsor of a bill to provide for civil unions skipped a hospital appointment to vote on the bill. What would Gayle think about that?
Also, we are more than a little curious about the strange and “undisclosed” illness that has been affecting Senator Buttars. Why the secrecy here? We knew more about Rock Hudson’s medical condition than we do about Senator Buttars’s condition.
But perhaps he’s not sick at all, since his alleged illness has not interfered with his ability to say really stupid things. Consider what Buttars said yesterday in opposing the addition of an incest exception to proposed legislation requiring parental notification by minors seeking an abortion:
Abortion isn’t about women’s rights. The rights they had were when they made the decision to have sex,” Buttars said. “This is the consequences. The consequence is they should have to talk to their parents.
That’s right: when a minor girl “decides” to have sex with her father, which she does by, you know, sleeping under the same roof in her pajamas, it’s her fault and she should suffer the consequences. Either that or Buttars realizes that if there were such an exception, he’d have no grandchildren.
(Thanks, Pinko Punko, for the heads up!)
More Buttarsininity
Posted by Clif on 01/31/06 at 5:53 pm Category: Buttars, Stupid Republicans
Utah Republican Chris Buttars, who has spent his legislative career in Utah trying to take gays out of school and put creationism in, isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the Utah legislature’s drawer. He more than demonstrated this with his recent opposition to a Utah bill that would allow the state of Utah to purchase up to $5 million in goods and services from “Community Rehabilitation Programs” that employ disabled workers. According to this article in the Utah Daily Herald:
Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also voted against the bill. He compared the proposed program to affirmative action.“I was very much opposed to affirmative action in hiring,” Buttars said. “Is this an affirmative action program just in a different dress?”
Because, you know, it’s a disabled person’s own damn fault that he is in a wheelchair and he really shouldn’t expect anyone to cut him any slack because of it.
Making Up The Rules
Posted by Clif on 01/15/06 at 11:21 am Category: Buttars, Gay Issues
Wizened crone Phyllis Schlafly was wheeled into Utah yesterday to speak at the Eagle Utah Forum, an annual convention of Utah wingnuts headed up by Gayle Ruzicka. Phyllis gave a speech about brown people and then turned the floor over to Utah Republican state senator Chris Buttars(e), who, as usual, can’t stand up in front of room of people without taking a whack at gays:
Buttars disparaged homosexuals, claiming they are “changing the meaning of everything,” that “their definition of morality is they have no morality” and harbor diseases at a higher rate than the general population. “If you read the homosexual rule book, you’ll find their greatest target is your kids,” he said.
Homosexual rule book? Can somebody tell me where to find a copy? I looked all over Amazon and all I could find was this and it didn’t say anything about targeting children.