That's my MP you're talkin' 'bout!

Some dick has got himself the fuckin' cojones to call my beloved MP, former Minister of Public Health, and all-around wonderful woman Carolyn Bennet, as well as the entire country she represented, "parasitic."

"One of the things that has troubled me greatly about our system is the fact that we pay more for pharmaceuticals and devices than other countries, and yet it's not really our country so much that's the problem, it's the parasitic relationship that Canada and France and other countries have towards us," the Tennessee lawmaker told Carolyn Bennett.

"Meaning that you set prices and unfortunately all the innovation, all the technological breakthroughs, just about, take place in our country ... you benefit from us and we pay for that and I resent that."

Dem's fightin' words. Or should I say, Rep's fightin' words? No.

But fight she did, responding that drug prices are set by drug companies which have little in general to do with Canada, or even France, if you can believe it, and by saying . Corker shot back with this gem:

"In essence, the Canadian government and its citizens are taking advantage of our citizens by virtue of setting prices that are lower than competitive prices."

OK, so, while the American government won't help its citizens by allowing them health care that would pay for their obscenely priced prescription drugs, Canada is taking advantage of Americans by offering them the same life-saving drugs cheaply?

Let's just say, that in a battle of wits, I would gladly challenge Mr. Corker.

Also, of fists, if he ever insults Carolyn Bennett again.