King makes idiot of self...again

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Once again King makes me do a facepalm.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87665-rep-king-r-slams-sabbath-vote

Now he's whining about how the health care reform vote may be on Sunday, during the Sabbath.

Goddamn, has that son of a bitch ever cracked a bible open or does he spend all his time thumping the thing?

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1. But Wait! There is more. King Bachmann Op/Ed Salon slams them and Politico

Step right up and get your daily dose of dumb.

http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/03/19/bachmann_king

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If someone came up to me one day and said, "Alex, I want to run the worst possible Op-Ed I can find. It has to be just totally pointless, misleading, free of actual facts or evidence and based solely on ideology, and it also has to be co-authored by two members of Congress -- who should I get to write it?" I would answer, without hesitating, "Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Steve King, R-Iowa." (Truth be told, I probably wouldn't include the IDs in spoken form, but indulge me on this.)

Then I'd start laughing, and I'd say, "But no one would ever be crass enough, or irresponsible enough, to run that Op-Ed."

And I'd be wrong. Because on Friday, Politico ran an Op-Ed by Bachmann and King about healthcare reform, and it is just as bad as you could expect it to be -- worse, maybe. So there's one very simple question to be asked here: Why the hell would Politico run this? Sure, I understand the traffic argument, but it's nice to think that even in this day and age media outlets have higher standards than traffic alone -- and the piece doesn't meet any of them. It contains not a single original argument, it does nothing to inform Politico's readers, it's often misleading or just plain wrong. It's totally predictable.

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