Cynthia McKinney: Congressional Nutcase

Congress has its fair share of morons, but at the top of the list has to be Rep Cynthia McKinney. The Hill, a Congressional paper, reports that she was recently charged with assaulting a police officer on Capitol Hill after "she walked around a metal detector. As a member of Congress she is entitled to do so, but she was not wearing the lapel pin that identifies her as a member [she refuses to wear it], and thus she committed a breach of security. McKinney does not claim to have identified herself before the officer approached, so that as far as he knew, he could have been dealing with a terrorist or a dangerous psychotic."
The biggest problem with McKinney's defense, other than that she broke the law, was that as soon as the officer who was doing his job to protect her and the rest of Congress did his job with her, she cried racism. That is the first and last defense of this wild-eyed Congreswoman, and one that she deployed after she lost her seat in 2002. Unfortunately Georgia was full of enough gluttons for punishment that they decided to send her back in '04.