Borowitz: GOP Claims Olympia Snowe Was Born in Kenya

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Birthers Demand Proof of Non-Kenyan Status

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Just moments after she broke with fellow Republicans and voted in favor of health care reform, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) came under fire from the GOP for allegedly lying about her nation of birth.

"This vote is going to raise suspicions, once again, that Sen. Snowe was born in Kenya," said GOP Chairman Michael Steele. "We demand that she prove, once and for all, that she is definitely not Kenyan."

Orly Taitz, leader of the so-called "birther" movement, said that Sen. Snowe's vote was "textbook Kenyan" behavior: "She's putting her tribe first."

In other news, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said he would acquire the St. Louis Rams and rename their stadium The House of Painkillers.

Limbaugh's move came after a failed bid to acquire Minnesota's NFL franchise and rename it the Minnesota Vicodins.

Elsewhere, the Rev. Moon married 10,000 people, putting him slightly ahead of Liza Minnelli.

... does a US Senator actually have to be born in the US? I thought that only applied to the President.

One president before Obama was sullied with rumors of a foreign born status. Oddly enough, Chester Alan Arthur was first assailed with the argument that since his father was not a naturalized U.S. citizen at his birth (he was a British-Irish citizen until he was naturalized in 1843), Arthur could not be a natural born citizen. When that failed to take hold, they started claiming that Arthur was REALLY born in Canada instead of Vermont.

With Obama, the nuttery has gone in the opposite direction beginning with theories Obama was really born in Kenya and devolving into the arguments that since Obama Sr. wasn't a U.S. citizen at Obama's birth, Obama cannot be a natural born citizen.