The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Just recently, Florida Tea Party Congressman Ted Yoho engaged in the following post-town hall discussion with ThinkProgress with regard to climate change: Keyes: "Droughts and extreme weather have been on the rise here in Florida. Do you think that's something that's attributable to manmade climate change?" Yoho: "No. I think it's a natural occurrence. I think we need to be good stewards of the resources we have and we need to get better, which we have, through technology and innovation." Keyes: "Do you think scientists are right on climate change or are they off-base on it?" Yoho: "I think there's an agenda-driven science. I can read stuff that says that the information was skewed. It's not right. I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that." Based on that discussion, I can just see Representative Yahoo, excuse...

At a recent town hall meeting, Republican Florida Representative Ted Yoho (I may call him Yahoo from this point forward) said the following with regard to Obamacare: "I had a little fun with [John] Boehner and told him about the sun tanning tax. He goes, 'I didn't know it was in there,' and I said, 'Yes, it's a ten percent tax.' He goes, 'Well, that's not that big of a deal.' I said, 'It's a racist tax.' He goes, 'You know what, it is.' I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin, with two non-dark skin people, and I asked this to him, 'Have you ever been to a tanning booth?' and he goes, 'No, no need.' So therefore it's a racist tax and I thought I might need to get to a sun tanning booth so I can come out and say I've been disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin. As crazy as that sounds, that's what the left does right..." First off, Rep...