What's truly shocking about this is that the crazy man is running UNOPPOSED!

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here's the thing that should stick in everyone's craw.

Congressman Doctor Paul Broun is running for re-election and he is unopposed.

The Democratic Party in his home district couldn't find a single person to stand up and offer the voters in that district a chance not to be represented in Congress by an obvious crackpot. No local assistant DA. No ambitious college professor; the University of Georgia is in this district. Nobody wants to stand up and make the argument that it is better for all concerned that your congresscritter not be a nut. Nobody?

"You're the third person to ask me this question over the last few days," said Joe Wisenbaker, the Democratic Party chairman in Clarke County, a piece of which also is part of Broun's district, when I spoke to him just now. "The last one was a Republican woman who was very, very angry that we don't have a candidate. So here's what I tell everyone who asks: We do everything we can to encourage people to engage politically and to run as Democrats. Last time, we had a good candidate, a lawyer named Russell Edwards, and he went to work full-time to run against Paul Broun, and he got a third of the vote."

Since then, the district's gotten sliced and diced good and proper, but, if we're ever going to get out of the god-enfeebled fever swamp into which the radicalized Republican Party is pushing the nation, sooner or later, there has to be organized, relentless push back at the ballot boxes everywhere in every election, whether that turns out to be ultimately futile or not. (Of all the things about which Howard Dean was right, this is the most important.) To his everlasting credit, an Army veteran named Stephen Simpson primaried Broun last August, and that was a good thing, even though Simpson got beaten pretty badly. If the Republicans could come up with a candidate to a least raise the question of why we should have frothing loons in our national legislature, the Democrats should do their part as well.

"I've got a great number of people telling me that they don't want to be represented in Congress by a nut," says Wisenbaker. "I mean, we're all embarrassed here." http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-broun-running-unopposed-135
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Damned friggin STRAIGHT they should be embarrassed!! I think someone should start a write-in campaign TODAY to defeat this asshole, and I'm disgusted the Dems didn't do a better job of finding someone. We need people like this in our governing body like we need MORE holes in our heads!

As to Geezer's dead horse, "it's the manufacturer's handbook....it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that." That is really all that needs being said. That he considers the Bible to give his major directions as to how to run public policy is a very clear statement of his intentions, period. Nowhere did he mention the Constitution, only the Bible, as giving him directions.

There's a chart at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/paul_broun/412252 which pretty much shows where Broun stands compared to the rest of the House.

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Broun is a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Broun to other members of the House of Representatives on leadership and ideology.

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It's pretty revealing...there are only TWO (possibly three) House members more hard right than him. It's my own opinion, but I find that rather telling in that this isn't someone I want representing the American people.

(Magons, I find it amusing that your cartoon comes from Down Under and is about climate change, hee, hee, hee! "That, too")