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The Spectacle Blog
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) has announced his resignation from Congress.
Today I have resigned from the office of United States Representative for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District.
After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have, for the first time, severed the necessary harmony between the needs of my constituency and of my family. As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave.
The recent event’s totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must “strike another match, go start anew” by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen.
Just a short time ago, McCotter was rising in the House Republican ranks and emerging as a mordant, pop culture-savvy defender of conservative principles on television and radio. He launched an ill-fated bid for the Republican presidential nomination that was dropped well before the Iowa caucuses and failed to qualify for the GOP primary ballot for renomination after many of his signatures proved invalid. An investigation has been launched into the signature-gathering process employed by the campaign.
I profiled McCotter in the December ‘09/January ‘10 issue of The American Spectator.
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RCV| 7.6.12 @ 6:54PM
The man is two tacos short of a combination plate.
Bob Grant| 7.6.12 @ 8:08PM
And under your boy obama, few can afford the combo plate.
C. Vernon Crisler | 7.6.12 @ 8:46PM
Isn't this the guy who likes John Lennon?
RCV| 7.7.12 @ 12:56AM
His resignation letter included a line from Bob Dylan's "It's all over now, Baby Blue. ". Enough said.
Reggie Love| 7.7.12 @ 2:42PM
McCotter went along with unions and opposed secret ballot voting for unions.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.12 @ 1:39AM
C'mon, RCV---what's the matter with quoting a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner?
RCV| 7.8.12 @ 11:43AM
Nothing at all, OC. I'm a big fan of Bob myself. But ... as the good Book tells us, "to everything there is a season." A Congressional resignation letter is just a weird place for Baby Blue lyrics.
Hope your Fourth was a glorious one, my friend.
spike59| 7.9.12 @ 6:03AM
i really liked this part of his statement:
"While our family takes this step into the rest of our lives, we do so with the ultimate confidence in our country’s future. True, as at other times in the life of our nation, we live in an Age of Extremes that prizes intensity over sanity; rhetoric over reality; and destruction over creation. But this too shall pass, thanks to the infinite, inspired wisdom of the sovereign people who, with God’s continued blessings, will again affirm for the generations American Exceptionalism."
hopefully, he'll be able to get in a few more appearances on "Red Eye"