Cynthia McKinney's lawyer has finally played the race card. Well, at least she's not blaming the Joooos.

I am OUTRAGED!

Well, at least she's not blaming the Joooos.

Just wait.

Jim, you beat me to it. ;-p

I give her 24 hours.

Looks like she almost tried to play the makeover card instead:

In a draft of a statement that McKinney did not release, she said the officer "body-blocked" her during the incident, and she blamed his failure to recognize her on a recent makeover.

"It is ... a shame that while I conduct the country's business, I have to stop and call the police to tell them that I've changed my hairstyle so that I'm not harassed at work," McKinney said in the draft, which was obtained by WSB-TV of Atlanta and posted on its Web site.

No, you don't have to tell the Capitol police every time you change your hairstyle. Just wear your damn lapel pin! If she had the slightest bit of sense she'd apologize for the incident, praise the police officer for doing his job and this would all blow over. What am I thinking? Cynthia McKinney and "sense" don't belong in the same sentence.

In the House of Parliament in the UK, the police are trained to recognize all of the members by sight.

...the police are trained to recognize all of the members by sight.

In the case of Cynthia McKinney, that would compel hardship pay...

"In the House of Parliament in the UK, the police are trained to recognize all of the members by sight."

The Congress of the United States hasa simpler solution, ID badges. Trouble is certain idiot Congresspersons are too stupid to wear theirs.

"In the House of Parliament in the UK, the police are trained to recognize all of the members by sight."

The Congress of the United States hasa simpler solution, ID badges. Trouble is certain idiot Congresspersons are too stupid to wear theirs.

Perhaps the Brits have lower expectations of their MPs than we do of our Congressmen. Comparing George Galloway to Cynthia McKinney (the mind boggles, right there...) I don't think one body or the other has the natural advantage. Since the Brits have been at it some centuries longer than us, they probably are more realistic about such things.

So McKinney slugged a cop. How terrible. But cops slug blacks all the time and nobody seems to complain about that, right? Oh, but I forgot. They're all criminals. And for the life of me I don't understand why remembering McKinney's face would entail "hardship pay." That stupid statement took me back to junior high.

After all, I bet the cops remember the faces of Tom Delay, Tom-tom Tancredo, Mark Souder, Thomas Feeney and all the other fascists in Congress. Good for Cynthia. She should have slugged the pig mofo with a baseball bat.