Tancredo is a freaking joke. I hope this asshole never gets any more airtime.

Voted NO on giving mental health full equity with physical health. (Mar 2008)

and this; Prohibit mandatory mental health screen for students. (May 2007)

I guess his strong feelings about mental health care kind of faded after his deferment.

I am not mocking mental illness here (I have fought my own demons in the past), but this was one of the easiest cadges for doctors writing letters at that time as it was hard to disprove. Most doctors, even in ultraconservative Oklahoma where I grew up, would write letters for patients from upper middle class or wealthy families to help them get out of the draft.

I will not mock those who served.

I will also not mock those who opposed the war and worked the system to avoid serving. (Edit: I was one who did this during the ‘Nam period although I eventually enlisted in the USAF and served 5 years 9 months)

I will most definitely mock those who supported the war but found all the ways to avoid serving. Chickenhawks all, whether Limbaugh, Cheney, Dan Qualye, Bush, or Tancredo

…he served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He completed training at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma and fulfilled his three-year enlistment as a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) in the fighting 69th. Fire Direction Specialist. while stationed in Bamberg, Germany. By his own account, he “missed deploying to the Gulf War by a hair.” Moulitsas has described the Army as “perhaps the ideal society – we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return.”…

As someone with “depression” now appended to my permanent medical record living in the land of the pre-existing condition and who has lived through Tancredo as their congressman, I have no doubt that this skeevy fucker bought himself a depression diagnosis to avoid getting his ass shot off in Vietnam while he was busy lobbying for many others to encounter that same fate. I can’t prove it, but I know ol’ Tommy and he’s just that level of disgusting. A typical Liberarian asshole who thinks he’s special and therefore gaming the system to save his worthless ass is just what Ayn would have wanted him to do; afterall, he was going to be a Producer.

So what’s more important – being polite to a menace to public safety, or taking him down? I say Markos took him down perfectly by laughing at him, and Brave Sir Robin ran away. We can out-logic these people 24/7 and it won’t make a damn bit of difference. You can’t rationally debate someone who has arrived at his conclusion irrationally. 4 out of 5 historians agree: scorn, ridicule, satire and humor are the most effective weapons.