Via Talk Left, Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) on Barack Obama:

I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.

Not that there is ever any excuse for calling an African American man "boy," but in case you're wondering this racist jackass is 49, not 79. And, yes, Geoff Davis is his real name.

As people are saying in the comments, I suppose the next step will be to eliminate civics courses, so the kids don't go thinking they live in a country where they have rights or anything silly like that:

House Approves Strip Search Bill
The deceptively titled "Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2006" has passed the House. It will result in a vast increase of wide-scale searches of public school students based on even the slightest suspicion that just one student brought drugs to school. The searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

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