This past spring, a conservative blogger asked Democratic congressman Phil Hare at a townhall meeting in Quincy, Illinois about the constitutionality of the controversial health care legislation. “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest,” Hare said.

This was the point that the race to represent Illinois’s 17^th Congressional District in Washington began to get national attention. Almost immediately, Hare’s comments went viral on YouTube, where nearly half-a-million viewers witnessed Hare’s blatant disregard for the legal framework of this nation. But Hare’s out of touch comments didn’t stop there: On C-SPAN, the two-term congressman said that he would be spending time “trying to debunk the myth that this country’s in debt and we just can’t spend.”