GOSH, I WONDER WHY OBAMA CAN'T BE AS BIPARTISAN AS GOVERNOR ROMNEY WAS

Here's the latest from a very mainstream House Republican:

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman's Banquet last month.

"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell," Broun said. "And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior."

According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee....

Don't forget: When Barack Obama is chastised for an inadequate level of bipartisanship, for failing to "reach across the aisle," remember that this is the kind of person he has to reach across to. When Obama wanted to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done routinely in recent decades, this guy was not only one of the key House members who dug in their heels and refused, thus endangering the country's credit rating, Broun proposed lowering the debt ceiling.

Broun's crazy talk about evolution and embryos is hardly anomalous -- he's extreme on a lot of subjects. He compared Obama to Hitler six days after the 2008 election. He thinks the Census is unconstitutional. He's a birther. He said nothing critical when a town hall attendee said to him, "Who's going to shoot Obama?"

How many Democratic members of the Massachusetts state legislature encouraged people who wanted to assassinate you, Mitt? How many literally thought you were the moral equivalent of Hitler?

And what would be analogous to Broun's views on science? Maybe a belief that everyone who belongs to any religious denomination and raises kids in it is guilty of child abuse? How many people like that did you have to work with in order to be "bipartisan," Mitt?