Now, obviously, this is not a problem which can be solved overnight -- though I'll continue to sing the praises of other styles of voting (STV, MMP) that produce less crazy, more representative results to anyone who will listen. .
"To me, this is a victory of the crazies," New York representative Peter King told reporters on Capitol Hill.
I went from thinking his reporter on the street, Leland Vittert, did a decent job on Monday night interviewing angry rioters and bystanders on the streets of Baltimore to scratching my head as Vittert led a crazy chase of Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) Wednesday night while the Congressman was on a bullhorn trying to get people to go home at the 10 PM curfew.
"We are incentivized to do crazy things," said Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, who pointed out how angry diatribes delivered on the House floor made celebrities out of lawmakers.
"It's an absurdity, it's a crazy law," Cesar Hernandez, a field representative with the Montana Wilderness Association, said during a walk by snowshoe in the Cabinet Mountains area the other day.
While we're on the topic of toxic right-wing nut jobs, anyone else notice that Representative Michele Bachman has crazy "Runaway Bride" eyes?
"We have one of the best records in the East, and to have one representative is kind of crazy," Scott said.
*Post-Script: To be sure, Republicans do not have a monopoly on crazy scientific theories, like when Democratic Representative Hank Johnson hypothesized that further military buildup in Guam would cause the island to capsize.
One, for example, uses the theme song from "The Twilight Zone" in a Web video bashing Representative Ron Paul of Texas as "your crazy uncle, but you never expected your crazy uncle to get this far".
Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican and crazy person from Texas, is pretty damn sure President Obama gets advice from the Muslim Brotherhood.
