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Republican Congressman Chris Shays has apparently lost his marbles, again:

Now I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture...It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from Maryland who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked. And they did other things that were just outrageous. But it wasn't torture.

Earlier in the week he slammed Sen. Kennedy while excusing Denny Hastert's outrageous cover-up of Mark Foley by saying "At least Denny Hastert never killed anyone."

Now, I haven't seen any polls for the race between Republican Shays and Democratic challenger Diane Farrell. But is it possible that the race is tightening up and Shays is, you know, starting to choke?