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"  With the imminent departure of Michele Bachmann from the World&amp;#039;s Greatest Legislative Body today, we have inaugurated a new semi-weekly regular feature in which we study the possible successor to la Bachmann as Royal Regent of the Crazy People. (Louie Gohmert is, of course, emperor for life.) Seeing as how yesterday was Talk Like A Pirate Day, why not pop in to see Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida. Ted has decided to get tough with Speaker Boehner, which means that, when he looks in the mirror, Ted sees the warm steady gaze of history looking back at him, and he is so transfixed that he doesn&amp;#039;t even notice that his eyeballs are spinning in opposite directions. &amp;quot;It only takes one with passion - look at Rosa Parks, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King,&amp;quot; said Representative Ted Yoho of Florida, one of the rank-and-file House Republicans who have risen up to challenge their party&amp;#039;s leadership over whether to confront the Senate and President Obama with their demands to cut off funding for the president&amp;#039;s health care law. &amp;quot;People with passion that speak up, they&amp;#039;ll have people follow them because they believe the same way, and smart leadership listens to that.&amp;quot;  Let&amp;#039;s see. Rosa Parks and Dr. King stood up to an entrenched system of American apartheid that was willing to kill, and that actually did kill one of them, in order to extend full citizenship to all Americans. Lech Walesa stood up to...the fking Soviet empire in order for Poland to be free of it. Ted Yoho is bravely inconveniencing John Boehner so as to prevent 40 million Americans from having health insurance. And our old friend Clio, Muse of History, occasionally known by her Marvel Comics name, The Proclaimer (!), cracks gropes blindly for the bottle of Quaaludes. &amp;quot;Yoho, &amp;#039;ho,&amp;quot; she murmurs. &amp;quot;Where the hell&amp;#039;s the bottle of rum?&amp;quot; In 2012, Ted Yoho was elected from Florida&amp;#039;s Third Congressional District with 64 percent of the vote. That is how he gets to be Lech Walesa with franking privileges. But good for you, Ted Yoho. You and your curious gift for historical analogy has put you in our lead pack. As alwasy, other nominations are always welcome. Our lines are open. Our operators are standing by. This is a free call. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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