Columbus, Ohio: Two Ohio Congressmen, Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) and John Boehner (OH-8), were featured on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO last Friday but for different reasons that made the former a star and the later the butt of a joke inspired by John Lennon's anthem Imagine.
One of the traditional troika of guests that appear on the raucous and very adult show whose purpose is to discuss the news of the day in real time in ways that lampoons the people, politics and agendas of those who make it, Kaptur, a multi-term Democrat representing Toledo and surrounding area, joined fellow panel mates actress Jeneane Garafalo and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman in discussions that ranged from the wars in Afghanistan and against terrorism to the anti-Obama crusade being waged by Republicans and their national spokesmen like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to health insurance reform and whether America still needs the US Senate, where Maher said progressive ideas go to die.