Friday, September 11, 2009

Joe Wilson's 15 Minutes Of Fame . . .

. . . could pretty much spell the end of the line for the guy who shouted "You lie!" during President Obama's health-care reform speech to a joint session of Congress.

While being a wackadoodle is pretty much par for the course for South Carolina Republican politicians, it turns out that Wilson is up to his antlers with problems:

* He's a deadbeat who owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to banks and credit unions.

* He's a secessionist dead-ender who fought to the end to keep the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse.


* He's a sucky apologist whose act of contrition was forced on him by the House GOP leadership.


Then there's this. Kinda makes him Republican presidential material, no?

Meanwhile, California Assemblyman Michael "Spanky" Duvall right) has resigned after his own 15 minutes of fame.

The Republican family values advocate and married father of two inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests, fondness for spanking and eye-patch underwear.


Duvall initially refused to quit but did so after the Assembly Republican leadership stripped him of his committee assignments.
But now he says he didn't have any affairs. Meh.

Hat tip to Gawker, Photo by Harry Hamburg/AP

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