Nice to click on the stats counter and see a number of visitors from Breibart.tv: underneath their video of definitive San Francisco Democrat Congressman Pete Stark's latest mental adventure down the Rabbit Hole is a link back to our May 2004 post quoting an earlier moment of Fortney's verbal extemporization.

Stark is sort of the Spock's Beard version of a fellow Democrat Joe Biden, a Senator of whom Jonah Goldberg has noted, is "famous for his brain’s chronic inability to hold brake fluid":

Once he revs his engines, the motormouth can’t be stopped, and he just keeps talking and talking and talking. My theory is that those constant smiles where he displays his shiny fake teeth are the facial equivalent of flashing your brights while driving, signaling to those in Biden’s path, “I can’t stop this thing!”

"The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take 100 of its most prominent numskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm".