The befuddled idiot above is one Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) (I still haven’t figured out what’s next to him in this photo, by the way.  Anyone?), one of the horde of lesser-known but equally moronic Democrats who are magnanimously taking it upon themselves to destroy American prosperity and freedom.

Stark normally gets a pass from just about everyone owing to his status as a blackhole of intelligence, but sometimes – just sometimes – it’s worth broadcasting his utterances a little more widely.

Such as his declaration that Blue Dog Democrats “just want to cause trouble” and that they’re “for the most part brain dead…. just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not reallyvery useful in this whole process.”

Because wanting to maintain high standards of health-care, rather than forcing everybody to accept whatever cr*p the government would provide in its place, is such an insidious right-wing conspiracy.

How has this simpleton, and all the other “progressives” (the word that I most wish I could uninvent), not drowned in the shower?

That’ll teach me.

I was about to call it a night (it’s only 9:45pm but I’ve been at the Pre-Cana course all day long and am tiredy) and thought I’d have one final little look for Democratic sleaze.

And whaddayaknow?

Up turns CA Rep. Pete Stark.

He’s done an Eliot Engel.  It involves that time-honored combination, taxes and dishonesty.

Stark is on the left in the pic.  I don’t know what the thing on the right is.