Rosa Parks Was So Sick of that Federal Government that Was Trying to Give Her Civil Rights

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The number three Republican in the Idaho House, Rep. Brent Crane, has a bachelor's in political science from Boise State University. I'm guessing that either he was a lousy student who managed to graduate anyway (wingnut welfare), or Boise State is teaching a very odd version of American History, because Crane managed to completely mangle the facts about Rosa Parks in a recent debate on his state's health insurance exchange bill.

"One little lady got tired of the federal government telling her what to do," Assistant Majority Leader Brent Crane of Nampa said during Wednesday's debate on Gov. Butch Otter's bill establishing a state-run health insurance exchange. "I've reached that point, Mr. Speaker, that I'm tired of giving in to the federal government."

The way I figure it, he knows the truth. In fact, later in the article he admits that he was "...sure we went over that in history class in high school and possibly in history in college, possibly." Yeah, you probably did, probably. You probably know all about Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Era, and Rosa Parks' civil disobedience against a local law that said she had to sit on the back of the bus. But for the purposes of making some kind of oratorical flare during your debate, you just threw the facts out the window. And you know what that makes you, Brent Crane?

That's right. You're a Bullshitter.