This repugican Makes what Might Be the Dumbest Statement about the Shutdown Yet

Before, during and now after the government shutdown, we’ve been inundated with nonstop political rhetoric.  Each side blaming the other for the entire mess and each side claiming victory once the whole embarrassing fiasco finally ended.Well, needless to say, with all that rhetoric flying back and forth there have been a number of completely boneheaded statements.
Throughout the whole debacle, one of the areas that bugged me the most was the blatantly over the top whining from repugicans over the closure of our monuments.  Granted, our monuments should never be shut down—but then neither should our government.  It always made me laugh to see repugicans force a government shutdown, then cry and complain about the ramifications of that shutdown.
And in true right-wing fashion, they found the talking point that got all of their conservatives up in a tizzy.  ”How dare President Obama deny Americans access to our national monuments!  How dare he deny veterans access to their monuments!  He’s un-American!”
Of course, repugicans took off and ran with this whole line of nonsense since it played perfectly into what their base wanted to hear.
But in the case of Georgia Representative Paul Broun, he took this rhetoric to a whole other level with his stupidity and apparent inability to know much about history or read a calendar.
During an interview, the repugican congressman had this to say:

“There was absolutely no reason, whatsoever, for this administration to block access to the World War Two Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial. It’s never ever been done in a government shutdown prior to this administration doing so.”

And you know what?  He’s absolutely right about the World War II Memorial.  During the 90′s shutdown, the World War II Memorial was never closed.
Because it didn’t exist until 2004. 
As for the Lincoln Memorial, he’s completely wrong.  The Lincoln Memorial was, in fact, closed during the repugican-led shutdown of the 90′s.
It’s this kind of ignorance that astounds me.  I’m not saying you need to be a genius to be a member of Congress, but this level of total buffoonery is baffling.
Because when he made these statements (and I’m sure he’s been beating this drum the whole time) he was either too stupid to know the facts about when the World War II Memorial was built, or willfully lied to the American people.
And you know, I could almost give him a pass for maybe being confused about the Lincoln Memorial closure in the 90′s, or maybe the date of the World World II Memorial being built, but not both.  So either he’s a babbling idiot or he’s blatantly lying to the American people to stir up fear and hatred.
But when you take into account some of the asinine remarks he’s made in the past where he called biology and geology “lies straight from the pits of hell” and said that healthcare reform reminds him of “Northern Aggression”…
I’m just going to go ahead and assume he’s simply a babbling idiot.