Posted Without Comment, as They Say

—By Jonathan Stein

| Mon Apr. 14, 2008 12:27 PM PDT

From the GOP's Northern Kentucky's 4th Congressional District Lincoln Day Dinner:

"I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button," [Congressman Geoff] Davis said. "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country."

I'll give you one guess who Davis was talking about. More ugliness here.

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