Cathy McMorris Rodgers

- by NoahOh how I wish one could make Republican World vanish just by no longer writing about it. But, it persists like a horrible virus, bent on running its course while infecting the body politic with vile fevers and chills, and America ponders those “Did this come from my body” moments. Do we survive the ill effects of Republican World, or, do we succumb?

• Princess Liz Cheney -- 2014's Smoothie of the Year?• "Miss Beck regrets" -- Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 1• And the Crackpot Party reacts to President Obama's SOTUThe Curious Case of the Princess and the Senator (see No. 1)

Maybe the problem was that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), at right, was subjected to threatening visitations by hideous, monstrous creatures like the vaguely human-looking, er, thing at left.

Boehner was so proud yesterday that he picked a girl to give one of the god-knows-how-many "official" Republican responses to the State of the Union message. He seems delusional enough to think that women voters will flock to the GOP because he named some obscure woman congressmember from rural northeast Washington who votes with the Republican patriarchs on everything.