Dr. Jack Cassell, if you don’t recognize the name right away, is what can only be described as a political urologist.

He received his 15-minute dose of fame last Friday, when there was a storm of outrage over a sign he posted on his office door:

A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.”

“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. “But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”

The sign reads: “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years.”

The wisdom of Solomon surely? You don’t have to turn them away, Jack, he said to himself one morning in a sudden epiphany; you can just provoke them into turning away in outrage. That’s perfectly ethical. Stupid, maybe, but perfectly ethical.

But the moving finger that writes, and having writ, moves on, had ordained a second 15-minute dose of fame for Dr. Cassell. He basked in it Saturday, after a radio interview Friday night with Alan Colmes.

The interview revealed that just like many Tea Partiers, Cassell doesn’t exactly know why he hates the healthcare reform bill so much. He’s full of incoherent rage. He knows it’s right to hate the bill because it is going to destroy something-or-the-other. But he doesn’t exactly understand why. Or not in any way that he can actually articulate (even after having had ample time to prepare a prepared answer):

Colmes: Do you really think the government wants people dead?
Cassell: Well I think that they’re cutting all supportive care, like nursing homes, ambulance services…
Colmes: What to you mean they’re cutting nursing homes?
Cassell: They’re cutting nursing home reimbursements
Colmes: Isn’t what they’re cutting under the Medicare plan what was really double dipping; they were getting credits and they were getting to deduct them at the same time.
Cassell: Well you know, I can’t tell you exactly what the deal is.
Colmes: If you can’t tell us exactly what the deal is, why are you opposing it and fighting against it?
Cassell: I’m not the guy who wrote the plan.
Colmes: But if you don’t know what the deal is why are you speaking out against something you don’t know what the deal is?
Cassell: What I get online, just like any other American. What I’m supposed to understand about the bill should be available to me.
Colmes: It is; it’s been online for a long time; it’s also been all over the media…

As Alan Colmes points out, “In fact, the National Association of Home Care and Hospice praises much of the bill.”

So here’s the thing. Even if you didn’t vote for Obama, do you really want to put your male or female plumbing in the hands of someone who has so publicly demonstrated such incredibly poor judgment, if not outright stupidity?