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Think Progress...

Rick Perry Draws A Blank On Key Supreme Court Case Overturning Texas’ Anti-Gay Laws He Defended

It's really no fun when they just fall over.

Odds are he's right.

Jonathan Bernstein...

...in general you're not going to lose a lot of bets if you wager that Americans are ignorant of something.

From the "Since you asked…" file.

Zandar wonders…

At what point do we just admit Herman Cain is just as staggeringly ignorant as the rest of the Clown Car Kids?

Since you asked, a while back would have been appropriate, but now would be fine.

Found on the net…

Mark Twain…

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

Still true, formats notwithstanding.

Don't know much about history…

…don't know much about, well, anything, really. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA)...

"The only thing I know is the Cut, Cap and Balance plan."

At least he hasn't let the facts confuse him.

Well, that's one reason.

Maybe not even the best one, but certainly sufficient. John Amato...

Lindsey Graham compares America to Greece which is why he shouldn't be taken seriously

I admit that just looking at him has always worked for me.

Quick quiz...

David Koch says that he believes that President Obama is “a hardcore socialist." This means that David Koch:

A. Doesn't know anything about socialism.
B. Doesn't know anything about President Obama
C. Doesn't know anything about anything.
D. Is a liar.
E. (Mix, match or add your own.)

Good question…

…from John Arivosis…

Why do we poll Americans on issues about which they haven't a clue?

Maybe because there'd be so little to ask so many of them about otherwise.

Liar, fool or tool?

Pete Holmes dissects Rob McKenna's role in an anti-ACA lawsuit, you decide.

And, yes, all of the above is an option.

Don't know much about…

…history. Via Political Wire…

"You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord."

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by the Boston Herald, while speaking in New Hampshire.

Doesn't know much about much, actually. Doesn't even want to, apparently.

The stuff they say…

There's this...

BOEHNER: Well, they -- they've refused to talk about America exceptionalism. We are different than the rest of the world. Why? Because Americans have -- the country was built on an idea that ordinary people could decide what their government looked like and ordinary people could elect their own leaders.

And 235 years ago that was a pretty novel idea.

Other than the outright lie about the content of President Obama's speech, a lie ably debunked by Barbara Morrill over at Daily Kos, Boehner's grasp of American history seems pretty weak for a man holding the country's third highest Constitutional office.

Just to be clear, this country was, in its inception, built on the idea that ordinary white men of property could decide who would administrate the government decided upon by an elite committee of white men of property who were drawn from an elite assembly of white men of property who were selected to represent the interests of white men of property.

235 years ago, that wasn't a bad foundation to build on. One of the best parts was that building on it, improving it, making it more habitable for more folks, was a considered part of the design. As a result, our country is a better place than it was, and holds out a promise to become better yet. That's the core of American exceptionalism to me.

Then there's former half-term governor of a large but largely empty state, Sarah Palin, making Boehner sound like David McCullough...

GRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik Moment the President wants us to have. Do you agree with him? Is this our moment?

PALIN: That was another one of those WTF moments, when he has so often repeated, the Sputnik Moment, that he would aspire Americans to celebrate, he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory and that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incured so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union so I listen to that Sputnik Moment talk over and over again and I think, no we don’t need one of those.

To which one can only respond, WTF?

From the "Since you asked…" file.

John Cole is curious...

Is it possible that the bullet we dodged in 2008 wasn’t Palin, but McCain?

Since you asked, sure, it's possible.

Personally, I think it was a push. One ignorant bigot's pretty much the same as the next to me.