Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rep John Shadegg (R-AZ), who manages to wear shoes and socks and hold down a responsible job while publicly saying things like this:

What we’re really getting here is, we’re not just getting single-payer care. We’re getting full on Russian gulag, Soviet-style gulag health care.

Not only do I not know what this means, I feel pretty confident that Shadegg doesn't know either. He just opens his mouth and this stuff comes out.

It seems pretty clear that he doesn't know what "single-payer care" means, let alone "Russian gulag". He seems a bit shaky on the concept of "health care" too.

Even by the standards of House back-benchers, this is pretty egregious. Maybe I'm naive, but I actually expect elected officials to mount better arguments than the wild-eyed people who bellow from streetcorners while wearing sandwich boards.

Not surprisingly, this is the guy that the National Review endorsed for House Majority Leader in 2006.

Heck of a job, National Review.