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With Slim Pickings, GOP Freshmen Pick 'Idiot' as President

This is funny (via Daily Kos); from the AP:

Idaho Representative-elect Bill Sali has been elected president of the incoming freshman G-O-P class in the U-S House. Spokesman Wayne Hoffman says the 13 Republican lawmakers who will start their first two-year terms in January chose Sali because of his background in the Idaho Legislature.

Who is Bill Sali? “Republican Bruce Newcomb, the former speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, recently called Sali “an absolute idiot.” Mike Simpson, a Republican who holds Idaho’s other House seat, once threatened to throw Sali out the window of the Capitol after Sali called him a liar.”

So in other words, someone who can’t get along with members of his own party. As the AP article noted, though, the Republicans’ poor election showing didn’t offer them much choice.