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The next time you hear a politician say something pretty outlandish, and let's face it, that will be very soon, and it most likely will spew forth from a Republican, mosey on over to  FactCheck.org and they have probably already dissected it and submitted the spew to a ... uh ... fact check.

Sure sometimes Democrats say and do stupid shit too.  At this point in history, the ratio is about 100 GOP gaffes to each Dem gaffe.  The GOP is literally overflowing with loonies!  

For instance, Steve King (R-IA)...

Rep. Steve King attracted attention — and criticism from Republican leaders — for saying of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children: “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that they weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” King later told CNN that he had data to back up his claim, saying, “This isn’t something made up in thin air.” But, so far, he hasn’t produced any such information.

At FactCheck.org, we put the burden of proof on the politician making the claim. We contacted King’s office about his assertion but haven’t received a response yet.

Or the fast-rising idiot from my own home state, Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Sen. Ted Cruz says there will be “20 or 30 million” people living in the U.S. illegally “in another 10, 20 years” if the Senate immigration bill becomes law. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill, if enacted, will reduce future illegal immigration by 33 percent to 50 percent compared with current law.

The Republican freshman senator from Texas offered his estimate on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the impact of the bill on the political future of one of its sponsors, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

Cruz, July 21: If the Gang of Eight bill became the law, in another 10, 20 years, we wouldn’t have 11 million people here illegally, we’d have 20 or 30 million.

We asked the senator’s office to support that statement. His spokesman, Sean Rushton, said that “it was not a factual statement — it was an opinion.”

And of course, very recently, likely the looniest House member of the current day, a man from the House district where I was born, Louie "Gomer" "Gohmert (R-TX):

Rep. Louie Gohmert went on Fox News and accused President Obama of a pattern of discrimination against Christians, particularly in the military, but many of his examples were false, distorted or incomplete.

Here are just a few of the claims Gohmert made about the Obama administration:

It's appalling what the Republicans are getting away with these days.  Never have I seen such vitriol and breathless insanity.

For the stories above and more, oh, so much more, go to FactCheck.org.