GOP Senator with the social skills of a 5th grader.

Senator Tells the Surgeon General Nominee He Knows Some Indian Doctors (Click on this heading to read more)

Vivek Murthy has three Ivy degrees and teaches at Harvard Medical School. He's likely the next surgeon general of the United States. He's an Indian-American. ... Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) wants him to know that his people are just wonderful!

Slate's Dave Weigel, who was possibly the only journalist paying much attention to Murthy's Senate testimony yesterday during the Beltway Obamacare freakout, caught Roberts' kindly-old-white-man-from-Kansas moment:

    Roberts: "You ever been to Dodge City, Kansas?"

    Murthy: "I have not, sir. But I would love to come."

    Roberts: "Well, good. I'm going to invite you, because we have a lovely doctor from India. She's in her mid-30s, and she's highly respected by the community. And another doctor from India that did my carpal tunnel when I did a stupid thing. And so, I think you'd be right at home, and we would welcome you."