Republican Douchebag of the week...subtle hope...

This week's Republican Douchebag award winner goes to Kansas (as in "What's the Matter With...") Rep. Lynn Jenkins, who would've won the C U Next Tuesday award for female douchbaggery if I had read this two days ago.

Jenkins held a town hall meeting, which apparently for her means Republican party campaign meeting, last week in Hiawatha, Kansas. In heralding what she feels as a new wave of Republican hopefuls that will save this great land from the dictatorship apparently secretly imposed on us by our rightfully (for once) elected president, she invoked the insightful and colorful phrase "Great White Hope". As in "save us from the scary black man".

As in its most famous usage, the search for the boxer that would wrest the heavyweight title from the first black champion, Jack Johnson. That hype culminated in race clashes that followed Johnson's victory over rascist goon James Jeffries.

Lynn, dear, don't pretend you don't know how your words would be taken. You've taken the Palinesque beautyqueen brainwash classes well, and it may work where nobody's really paying attention, but elsewhere looks as fake as your fucked up streak job on your hair.

So, in closing, Rep. Jenkins, maybe being more of a public servant and less of a sycophantic hack who's running for queen bee of her Stepford Wife fantasy bowl.