Yoholand: An Alternate Universe Where Imbecility Leads to Stability

Remember when Representative Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida) compared the Tea Party efforts to defund Obamacare to the Civil Rights Movement?

“It only takes one with passion — look at Rosa Parks, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King. People with passion that speak up, they’ll have people follow them because they believe the same way, and smart leadership listens to that.”

Yoho followed that up with this doozy about failure to raise the debt ceiling:

“I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets."

That quote earned this headline from Business Insider: "Tea Party Congressman Wins An Award For The Stupidest Thing Said About The Debt Ceiling". But anyway, today comes news that Yoho has made it into the Urban Dictionary!

Yoholand: An alternate universe where the largest economy in the world defaults and global markets are [surprise!] stabilized."

Ted Yoho is the Small Mind of the Day

The other day, Representative Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida) brought up an Affordable Healthcare provision that allegedly imposes a 10% tax on tanning bed use. Yoho maintained that this is a “racist tax” that discriminates “because of the color of my skin.”

Over here is Yoho’s account (with audio), during which he’s chatting with John Boehner:

[Boehner] goes, “I didn’t know [the tax] was in there,” and I said, “Yes, it’s a ten percent tax.” He goes, “Well, that’s not that big of a deal.” I said, “It’s a racist tax.” He goes, “You know what, it is.” I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin, with two non-dark skin people, and I asked this to him, I said, “Have you ever been to a tanning booth?” and he goes, “No, no need.” So therefore it’s a racist tax and I thought I might need to get to a sun tanning booth so I can come out and say I’ve been disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin.”

BTW, you may be wondering just how white Ted is. Oh, he's just sort of white.

Hmm. I guess he's actually fairly white.

Oh, who am I kidding? Ted Yoho's whiter than a motherfucker.