Stephen Ernest “Steve” Stockman  As the air is filled with more
stories of his current antics, I thought a little refresher on
Texas congressman Steve Stockman’s history might be in order.
You see, Stockman was a congressman nineteen years ago, too.
He’d just been elected to his first term, and was a darling of
the far-right Bircher-birthed militia movement, the ancestors of
today’s Tea Party twits. Because he was so close to the militia
types, he was the congresscritter whose office received a fax on
the morning the Murrah Building was blown up in Oklahoma City:
About 45 minutes before the bomb went off on 4/19/95 in front of
the Murrah Building, this idiot’s office got a fax that the
sender (who turned out to be one of the “Michigan Militia” who
knew McVeigh) had tried to make look like it came from a Federal
agency, warning of a bomb threat to a Federal building in
Oklahoma City.  As the writer goes on to mention, all Federal
employees and all congressional staffers are taught that
whenever any sort of b