repugs are going off the deep end!

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) yesterday “sent an email to the media” suggesting the agenda of his political opponents is to “plot to establish a Department of Peace, raise your taxes and minimize penalties for crack dealers.”

(Think Progress)
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I know that they can't honestly think that anyone - other than complete out-of-touch mental cases - could possibly believe this nonsense. Why even spout it? Are theydesperaterate for votes that they are reaching out to the mentally unbalanced?