**Obviously Ensign is still thinking with his "other" brain.

Obviously what Ensign means is that REAL Americans don't get into car accidents or get shot. That's only what happens to godless heathen urban Americans.

When Ensign had the floor, he again hammered away on this point, saying that we have a higher survivor rate amongst cancer patients than Canada or Britain. What he quite easily (and cockily) ignored with his pithy little country flag bar graph was that he's comparing the survival rates of ALL citizens in Canada and the UK with ONLY THE INSURED among Americans. Fancy math, that.

Beside the bizarre spectacle of a freedom loving republican admitting that our love of guns and the open road with no speed limits kills way more people than in any other country...his factual claim is false.

His claim comes form a BS study by a couple guys at AEI. OECD disputes it and the authors even admit what they were doing is not what Mr. Ensign claims

Here's a source (WSJ):
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/25/violence-traffic-accidents-and-us-life-expectancy/

Follow the link in that article to the OECD text (it's a google book text image, scroll down to the footnote) that completes the take down of Ensign's lie.

Big surprise, dude who cheats on his wife turns out to be an excellent liar.

Am I missing something here? Is Ensign making an argument against the accessibility of guns and the accidents they cause? Is he saying that guns kill rather than people who kill?

"...car accidents and gun deaths...because, we Americans love our guns..." said Ensign with a funny little grin on his face. Can I just say, he's a fucker.

You know, i don't think Jon Stewart is even going to have to add any commentary when he runs this clip tonight.

Ensign... Ignorant and proud of it!

I don't understand how that precludes the need for healthcare. My guess is there are a lot of gun owners out there that can't afford healthcare when they shoot themselves. And accidents are even worse since multi-car collisions are often caused by just 1 driver.

Explain this Ensign.

Isn't that exactly the strategy of the health insurance industry? Ignore all the sick people and the ones that are left are healthy - and profitable.

This should be of little surprise. It appears to be the same math formula they use to determine the lack of need for troop withdrawals in Iraq/Afghanistan. Subtract all soldiers injured by IED's, subtract soldiers injured by opposition fire, subtract friendly fire incidents leading to death. And our troops have an outstanding survival rate with far fewer dying from natural causes on the battlefield than their stateside counterparts.

And if you take out adultery as a reason for divorce in america...why our divorce rate would be unbelievably lower then Europe!

At last, a solution to the horrible infant mortality rate in this country!

We've just got to quit letting these tiny babies drive and have guns!

Wow. Why wasn't there uproarious laughter coming from the gallery? That anything this shamed politician says is taken seriously just baffles me.

Like chickmagnet slushfund payer Ensign just stated with his ineloquent plea for better gun control, I have always believed that the fact that Merca is awash in guns is one reason why our straining healthcare system is getting financially kicked in the nuts. To remedy this situation, we should make gun purchasing easier for all Mercans. Especially for the higher powered handguns. If less people survive a gunshot, less strain on healthcare. Simple.

And Ensign's takedown of our socialist road system is spot on. If we did away with our road system, we'd have less people driving and consequently, less people would be hurted. For example, the less driving my wife does, the better.

Shorter Ensign: Too many gun deaths in America! Down with the Second Amendment!

Thatcher said, "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."

However

@ 51 if your parents are still paying off your mistresses you know you have arrived.

Everybody took the head fake and missed the punchline: Ensign is LYING about the U.S. being ahead of Europe on chronic disease. We're around #30 for health outcomes, irrespective of car accidents. He's lying, ignorant, and wrong in every word he speaks.

It's like Bill O'Reilly claiming the Netherlands is more dangerous, when they have about 20% of our violent crime per capita. He says, "But it's a small country!" banking that his viewers don't understand math, either.

They are all liars.