We have long known that conservatives in Congress are hopelessly out of touch with both reality and the American people. So while it represented nothing new, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) recent comments on health insurance reform made me do a double take:

Boehner claimed, with a semi-straight face, that he has yet to meet a regular “American” who favors the option — despite polls showing that a majority of voters support to the idea of having the choice of a government plan.

“I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public option, other than a member of Congress or the administration” said Boehner, whose sole recent foray into a public discussion of health care reform was a tea-party-style event in Ohio a few weeks back.

Now it is pretty startling that in John Boehner’s day-to-day life he hasn’t come across a single American who supports a public health insurance option, despite pretty much every poll consistently showing overwhelming public support for a public option (typically between 56 to 62 percent on the low end and 75 to 80 percent on the high end). So given that at the very least a simple majority of Americans support it, how the hell has the leading Republican in the House of Representatives managed to not meet a single American who supports it?

We have long known that conservatives in Congress are hopelessly out of touch with both reality and the American people. So while it represented nothing new, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) recent comments on health insurance reform made me do a double take:

Boehner claimed, with a semi-straight face, that he has yet to meet a regular “American” who favors the option — despite polls showing that a majority of voters support to the idea of having the choice of a government plan.

“I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public option, other than a member of Congress or the administration” said Boehner, whose sole recent foray into a public discussion of health care reform was a tea-party-style event in Ohio a few weeks back.

Now it is pretty startling that in John Boehner’s day-to-day life he hasn’t come across a single American who supports a public health insurance option, despite pretty much every poll consistently showing overwhelming public support for a public option (typically between 56 to 62 percent on the low end and 75 to 80 percent on the high end). So given that at the very least a simple majority of Americans support it, how the hell has the leading Republican in the House of Representatives managed to not meet a single American who supports it?

Well the reviews are already in on Obama’s big speech on “the importance of education,” and they aren’t pretty. The descriptions range from “brainwashing” and “indoctrination of your children” to accusations that Obama’s speech shows that he is actually Mao, Hitler, Mussolini and, of course, a terrorist.

Right now you might be asking yourself, what speech on education? I didn’t see any speech. Did the media not cover it? Why didn’t I see any tweets??