Steve King, R-Iowa

Now, I don’t think that’s how the national debt works. (Babies owe money to the U.S. government?) But that aside, very funny, Rep. King. The “joke” is that Steve King thinks the president was born in Kenya or Indonesia, because King is a complete loon seething with racially charged hatred for the president and his family.

You can watch King’s entire rambling speech here.

First, Minnesota will not lose a district, so Michele Bachmann is safe. Sorry!

1. Steve King, R-Iowa

Iowa is projected to lose one seat, and while that won’t affect its stranglehold on the presidential nomination process, it might rid America of the one Iowa export even more offensive to thinking people than ethanol fuel. Steve King, proven by science to be the craziest congressman in the House, represents a sparsely populated but incredibly Republican district. No one would really miss the guy who was the sole vote against a plaque honoring the slaves who built the Capitol, right?

2 Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio

While it’s tempting to wish for John Boehner to go crying into that good night, Jean Schmidt is a complete nightmare of a person. Whether she’s discussing abortion with 6-year-olds, calling Jack Murtha a coward, or whispering sweet nothings to birthers, Jean Schmidt is easily Ohio’s worst representative. But Ohio’s losing two seats, so Boehner can go, too.

3. Aaron Schock, R-Ill.

Schock is America’s hottest and youngest member of Congress, and boy does this guy love to torture people! (We’d also be fine with losing idiot climate change denialist John Shimkus.)

4. Charles Boustany, R-La.

Louisiana’s set to lose a seat, and while no one in its delegation is even close to Steve King-level bad, Charles Boustany is on the record questioning whether the president was born in the United States. (He later retracted his statement. So he can get a pass and they can take Steve Scalise instead.)

5. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.

New York’s set to lose two seats. Peter King’s probably safe, so let’s just go with what would be the funniest outcome: a loss for ambitious attention-addict Anthony Weiner.

*(And the deck is already stacked against them. While the House is vastly more small-d democratic than the Senate, limits on its size and the fact that districts are generally designed to be “relatively compact” and “contiguous” means the system is broadly unfriendly to Democrats, who tend to cluster in urban areas and produce incredibly “safe” seats, while Republicans spread out and produce many more less-homogeneous but mostly Republican districts.)

King writes that “[i]n order to better determine whether favoritism played a role – especially because Ms. Onyango had been earlier turned down for asylum and ordered deported in 2004 before her nephew became president – the Subcommittee needs to hear from Ms. Onyango herself.”

“While I understand that asylum proceedings are generally confidential, Margaret Wong, Ms. Onyango’s attorney, has clearly courted press attention regarding this matter,” he continues. “In fact, I assume that the press learned that Ms. Onyango received asylum because of comments to the media made by Ms. Wong. Therefore, Ms. Onyango has made herself a public figure and should have no hesitation about appearing before the Subcommittee. Further, in order to facilitate Ms. Onyango’s appearance before the Subcommittee, I request that you and Chairman Conyers authorize the Committee to reimburse her travel expenses.”

Some things happened between 2002 and 2010, of course. Onyango’s nephew became the president of the United States, and she herself became relatively well-known. Kenya was beset by deadly rioting after the December, 2007 elections. More violence could erupt in 2012. There is also a nationwide constitutional referendum this August, and it has already led to a deadly grenade attack. (Onyango, 57, also suffers from back problems and Guillain-Barre.)

But why would Barack Obama somehow force a judge to not punish his aunt for violating the rules of this great nation? Because, as King explained on the G. Gordon Liddy show this morning, Obama always takes the black person’s side.

King: When you look at this administration, I’m offended by Eric Holder and the President also, their posture. It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race. And I don’t know what the basis of that is but I’m not a coward when it comes to that and I’m happy to talk about these things and I think we should. But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race – on the side that favors the black person.

In addition to being paranoid racialist nonsense, that is also a blatant mischaracterization of Holder’s remarks.

None of this is particularly out of character for King, who is just as crazy as Michele Bachmann but much less telegenic. Just go here and look around for more stories of Steve King being a far-right nut who never wastes an opportunity to say something terrible about gays, Mexicans, or black people.