Oh, MHB is gonna love this! Representative Todd Akin, Republican of Missouri, takes to the House floor to regale us with stories of how the Pilgrims were so adventurous and free-spirited and such a "great bunch of Americans; there were knife fights in cabins -- I haven't had time to cover all that with you, but the basics are there."
And they "came here with the idea that, after trying socialism, that it wasn't going to work. They realized that it was un-Biblical and it was a form of theft. So they pitched socialism out; they learned that in the early 1620s."
Golly gee! Those Pilgrims were so far ahead of their time, they went Back to the Future!
Watch this master of history in action:
