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We all know that Cynthia McKinney is a raving loon. The fact that she’s a Member of Congress (again!) troubles me only a bit, because even the clinically insane, paranoid, and racist are entitled to have representation in Congress, and why not one of their own? Besides, if you took the nutjobs and the morons out of Congress, you couldn’t get a quorum. You probably would have to cancel the Congressional baseball game. You might not even be able to get a set together for a game of bridge.

But I digress.

Rep. McKinney’s complaint, in essence, is that a Capitol Police officer stopped her from entering the building and asked for ID when she wasn’t wearing the shiny pin that identifies her as a Member of Congress. Mind you, it’s the job of the Capitol Police to prevent entry to anyone who tries to walk around the security checkpoint without the required ID.

The officer just didn’t recognize McKinney, and that got her fired up enough to shove him. Now, you might say to yourself, a Capitol Police officer charged with working the doors ought to quickly memorize the faces of all 535 Members of Congress. Maybe so. But even if that were both reasonable and possible, the fact is that McKinney has recently abandoned the schoolgirl-style braids she wears in her official photo and has opted for a dramatically different look called a “twist-out.” (For an even better look at the “twist-out” check Michelle Malkin’s screencap.)

So yeah, it’s not crazy to think that even a Capitol Police officer who knew Cynthia McKinney from her photo might not recognize her with her new don’t ‘do, and might stop her to ask for ID. How this translates into what her lawyer calls “the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin,” is frankly beyond me. (OK, she now claims that she was not only “stopped” but “inappropriately touched” - but to stop someone dodging the security checkpoint without ID, the degree of “touching” required to rise to the level of “inappropriate” would have to be somewhere between medieval and Ted Kennedy’s waitress sandwich.)

I expect Cynthia McKinney to depart from reality from tiem to time, since she’s a founding member of the race-card-based community. But what’s this? Danny Glover backstopped her at the press conference? Danny Glover lent his support to this, of all causes? What would your buddy Mel think?

I used to like Danny Glover. But now? Dead to me.