The House GOP has lost it’s collective mind

I’ll bet you think I’m crazy for putting up that picture of a disgusting old man with pale legs and blue hair on the front page early on Monday morning, don’t you? Well, that’s not half as crazy as what the House GOP is doing with that nutjob. According to Amanda Carpenter at the Washington Times;

Why were House Republicans holding an off-the record meeting on health care with the liberal Dr. Patch Adams Thursday morning?

An email about the meeting sent from Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston’s office was obtained by the Washington Times from a disgrunteld GOP staffer who questioned why any Republican would seek Dr. Adam’s advice.

Dr. Adams’s unconventional approach to treating patients, like preparing a noodle bath for a sick woman for example, was made famous in the 1998 film “Patch Adams” in which he was portrayed by actor Robin Williams. Today, Dr. Adams leads the Gesundheit Institute that supports a single-payer health care system.

Yes, that’s Patch Adams in the photo – and that’s his preferred color for his hair all of the time, not just for last year’s Code Pink Mothers’ Day event in DuPont Circle where I took that picture.

I’ll admit that I’ve never seen the Robin Williams movie, mostly because I know that people who are tagged as “unconventional” these days are what we’d call crackpots a few decades ago. Adams is a crackpot.

Proof? Look at some of the people he hangs out with. Code Pink doesn’t have a rational solution to the war against terror, so why would the House Republicans think Patch Adams has a rational solution for healthcare? Is this what Republicans call presenting their own plan for healthcare – free government subsidized daily noodle baths for everyone?

Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Politics