What happens when insane old men of competing political stripes, neither with any filtering capabilities, converse? PEE PEE RAGE. Here is comical Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, who has been proudly insulting constituents and colleagues for about 40 years, taking a question at a recent town hall from a standard-issue old wingnut — a frequent suckler of Medicare, to be sure — complaining about how Medicare is a terrible program and why does Pete Stark want to give more terrible government health care to people hmm? “Mr. Congressman, don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining,” the wry wingnut declares, to which Stark responds, “I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg, it wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine.” Ha ha. And then there are like 8 minutes left in the video so god knows what else happens; we have more posts to write… [Glenn Thrush]

THESE OBAMAS MUST RESPECT OUR QUEEN: “The president’s presumptuousness most certainly did not stop with the poison gift of the I-pod. Instead of holding tape recordings of quality music from Great Britain, rumor has it this device was filled with 30 gigabytes (or, a half hour’s worth) of sexual American music by the likes of Barry White or Boz Scaggs.” [AOL Political Machine]