No 2: Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) forgets to do his homework.
When Congressman Lynn Westmoreland made an appearance on "The Colbert Report" in June, the embarrassing gaffe that ensued wasn't something he said--as in the case of Robert Wexler's "I enjoy cocaine" line--but rather something he didn't say. Westmoreland was the co-sponsor of a controversial bill to install Ten Commandments displays in the Senate and House of Representatives. But when host Stephen Colbert asked him to actually list the Ten Commandments, he couldn't name more than three.
Oops.
Luckily for Westmoreland, he still managed to win re-election in his heavily Republican district in Georgia. Unfortunately, he still has to deal with being known as the "Ten Commandments guy."
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