Monday Stuff

You know it, you love it – here it is again…

#16, Phil Gingrey
#17, David Schweikert
#18, Virginia Foxx
#19, Pete Sessions
#20, Charlie Dent
#21, Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#22, Chris Smith
#23, Todd Akin
#24, Buck McKeon
#25, Kristi Noem
#26, Hal Rogers
#27, Lou Barletta (Two bonus selections: Boren and Ross)
#28, Paul Broun
#29, Mary Bono Mack
#30, David Dreier
#31, Marsha Blackburn (including backgrounder)

…and that brings us to #15 on our list of U.S. House Republicans opposed to the Affordable Care Act, and that would be “Mean Jean” Schmidt of Ohio.

Why “Mean Jean”? Well, for starters, she called the late Dem U.S. House Rep (and former Marine) John Murtha a coward when he courageously came out in opposition to Dubya’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iraq (that and a bunch of other stuff is here). She also told a big lie about Planned Parenthood here (lots of company in that department), faked being targeted for assassination again (!) here, and carried out a two-year vendetta against David Krikorian, a one-time challenger for her seat (here).

Oh, and it should also be noted that Schmidt was one of numerous Congressional representatives tainted in a Turkish influence-peddling scheme (a “Turkish Delight,” if you will) brought to light by Sibel Edmonds, renowned former FBI Turkish and Farsi interpreter and whistleblower (here).

So yeah, Schmidt has a lot of baggage. Unfortunately for we filthy, unkempt liberal blogger types, we won’t have “Mean Jean” to kick around for much longer since she lost her Republican primary in March to Brad Wenstrup (who has the imprimatur of those zany teabaggers, though it is a point in Wenstrup’s favor that he served our country too).

At least Schmidt managed to give us this utterly hilarious moment before she ran out the clock, as Cenk Uygur and company note below (and yep, Michael Savage is that big of a whack job too)...

…and this is a song about a guy with issues, I would say (nice tune anyway).