Okay, I live only a few miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park so maybe I have some slight advantage, but I don’t think Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi could pass his citizenship test. Doesn’t every schoolboy and girl learn that George Washington and his weary Continental Army encamped at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78?

Republicans such as Roger Wicker of Mississippi dismissed the idea of simply skipping the final healthcare vote, even considering that their opposition to the bill would allow them such a liberty. Wicker said he recognized the historic nature of the vote and has already tentatively canceled a political event in Mississippi.

“It would be silly for the Senate to forego Christmas season with our families when you know there will be so much down time in January,” Wicker said. “But I’m not going to miss healthcare votes. If the majority leader thinks we’ll be voting between Christmas and New Year’s, I’ll be here voting.

“There are soldiers sweating in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I visualize the pictures of the bare-footed soldiers with their feet bleeding at Valley Forge in Christmas of 1776. I think we can stand to be in this splendid building for Christmas if we have to.”

Kind of reminds me of another future senator (John “Bluto” Blutarsky).

D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [whispering] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.

If Washington had been shacked up at Valley Forge on Christmas Day 1776, he couldn’t have been crossing the Delaware River to ambush the Hessians at Trenton. And if he hadn’t taken over Trenton, he couldn’t have marched up Princeton Pike to win the Battle of Princeton (1777) and drive the redcoats out of New Jersey.

But Roger Wicker is even more delusional than he is misinformed. Imagine those soldiers at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78 with their bleeding frostbit feet, thinking that they were fighting to deny their fellow citizens access to health care. Idiot.

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