Hoekstra wants a Birther czar in Washington

Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has bent over backwards to appeal to the tea party types in the Michigan GOP, but his latest proposal is so far out there that even Donald Trump might respond to it with a robust “You’re fired.”

The former congressman recently put forward a bizarre plan to create a Birther federal agency. At a Lapeer County Tea Party rally earlier this month  Hoekstra said he would “like to establish a three-person office in Washington, D.C.” that would police the presidential candidates by investigating whether they are  qualified to hold the office.

While Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate clearly showed that he was born in Hawaii – and the recent circus-like attempt by Arizona officials to discredit that document went nowhere – apparently Hoekstra is so wedded to the birther movement that he still questions the actions taken by John McCain four years ago.

At the rally, the Holland Republican said:

 “I hate to say it, but I think the debate’s over. We lost that debate and we lost that debate in 2008 when our presidential nominee said, ‘ I ain’t talking about it’. Okay, I’m sorry. What I do now believe that  I’d like to establish a three person office in Washington, DC, okay, knowing it will grow to five… So that at any future election, all right, that someone would have to walk into that office and prove that they meet the minimum qualifications to be President of the United States.”

Hokestra went on to explain his idea for a birther office, an idea that Democrats are calling a birther czar: 

“… It should be an FBI person, maybe a CIA person and one person managing those two people and just if you want to run for president, you’ve got to go with the right, proper documentation and go to that person and get it certified that you meet the qualifications to be President of the United States. You’re the right age, you know, you were born in the United States or, you know, U.S. citizens and it’s done.”

Has it ever dawned on Hoekstra that proof of citizenship is supposed to be a standard for all voters to meet, not just those who run for president of the United States?

Apparently, the former congressman's incoherent speech was caught on tape and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee graciously offers the video to the public on YouTube. You can find it here.