You know who I've been seeing everywhere on the liberal blogs, lately? Markwayne Mullin. Now that the congress critters have returned to their districts, it's always National Geographic-style fun to see them operating in their own habitats, but M-Squared is really giving great value for the attention. So far, he's done climate science denial:
(May I direct Rep. Mullin to Ken Burn's rather good take on the Dust Bowl--entirely worth anyone's time, not least of all that of a representative from the great state of Oklahoma, where the wind does indeed come sweeping down the plains, all right.)
made a classic "welfare queen/young bucks on food stamps" claim regarding seeing "fit people" on SNAP,
agreed with a birther, albeit possibly in an "If I agree with you, will you go away bad lady?" kind of way,
aaaannnnd he's made the absurd claim that raising the minimum wage to $10 will raise the price of a hamburger at Micky-D's to $20:
(Totally annihilated by ThinkProgress.)
He's factually wrong, when he's articulate enough to be making any kind of point at all. I don't know if I want him to stop, or to be blogfodder forever. Shine on, you crazy rhinestone.
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He's smart as a R-OcK!
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