Representative Paul Broun (R-GA):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXm3Xe33CSM

John J. Jingleheimer Schmidt Pitney Jr. at the Corner:

The text of the president’s speech to schoolchildren is largely inoffensive. But it contains at least one political gaffe. If you quit school, he tells the kids, “You’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” Among Americans between ages 65 and 74, 20.7 percent quit before finishing high school. For those 75 and older, the figure is 27.4 percent. The latter group includes some who quit in order to enlist in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor. And yet the president seems to be calling them unpatriotic.

At first we thought this was yet another example of high school debaters taking over the conservative movement. But then we realized: the cynical intellectuals at NRO are all highly educated. In saying it’s okay to drop out, they’re really trying to eliminate their competition. After all, somebody has to clean their drains.

Obama in the Classroom [NRO, via Sully]

Another family-values Republican goes down (sorry):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Idw-CzHwgc

Two women, unprotected sex, married with two kids … 3.5 diapers.

SanFranLefty suggests:

Health Policy Analyst and known moron Sarah Palin has posted written testimony to the New York State Senate Aging (Euthanasia) Committee, and continues to insist that death panels are not imaginary.  Of course, she has gone through the work of reading relevant legislation and extensively footnoted her statement, because intellectual rigor is what she is known for:

A great deal of attention was given to my use of the phrase “death panel” in discussing such rationing.[7] Despite repeated attempts by many in the media to dismiss this phrase as a “myth”, its accuracy has been vindicated.

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If we read the colonic bag correctly, the “public option” is dead. Even if it passes the House, it won’t survive the conference committee. Instead, some future public plan will be “triggered” if certain standards aren’t met after a suitably long period of time.

Long enough, that is, for those standards to be suitably weakened. Or for whatever public option eventually emerges to be suitably hobbled.

None of which matters, since it has no more basis in reality than a campaign promise. Much like the promise that led us to hope something worthwhile might be accomplished this year.

Instead, the immediate, practical question is this: How much will the healthcare “reform” fuck us over?

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Could this be Mean Jean’s macaca moment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YshG_Ok8idc

This might be the worst GOP talking-head performance yet: