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Pop quiz: Who has better hair than Sarah Palin, also seems to believe their proximity to another country makes them qualified to run a country and who, judging by the amount of untrue and contradictory statements they’ve said on the issue, might have a “secret plan” written on the palm of their hand? If you guessed Texas Governor Rick “Most Likely to Secede” Perry, then you’d get an A+, which is a better grade than most Texas students are getting these days after Governor Perry’s rejection of government funds destined for Texas classrooms.

click for full size Yes, we already probed the Joker fairly thoroughly (but then, major points for the guy having that creepy eruption!). But the killer element here (pardon the pun) is this dear lady’s pullover. Honestly, the whole ” Death Panel ” thing was so “out there,” it didn’t resonate with me until I came across this Newscom photo today. As Rachel Maddow well elaborated , the radical right has been scaring seniors based on the picayune but otherwise perfectly sensible fact health care reform proposals encourage people to create living wills.