when Him-bo's lie....

With all the focus in the "all flirt no substance" performances Sarah Palin has been putting on lately, it's easy to neglect the army of Manchurian sexbots that the Republican party have been accumulating as their plan for a new wave of ascendancy. This includes cougar whackjobs like Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota (fun fact - if you Google "Minnesota Congresswoman Whackjob" her official site is the first entry), Marsha "I'm waiting for my Desperate Housewives cameo" Blackburn, and former Miss I-Will-Never-Concede Marilyn Musgrave. However, the GOP is growing a bench of himbos as well, cut from the Mitt Romney mold but with more of the hunk and less of that pesky Mormonism.

One of their brightest upcomers (pun intended) is Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock (pictured above apparently on a break from his beer commercial audition tape). Before the nude model from Massachussetts stole his thunder, Schock was considered so much a hottie that even the gay rags were swooning over him (and of course, as still single, can still host the "well, maybe he is meme). Mind you, it's ironic that Schock is succeeding Ray LaHood, who President Obama in one of his misguided fits of "bipartisanship" appointed to his Cabinet as Secretary of Transportation.

Since then Schock has proven to be a loyal Republican soldier, voting against hate crime legislation (how hot is he now, fellas?) as well as propagating the tax-cut schtick that's a necessity in order to be in the new mouthbreather right-wing. In fact he's so dimbulb that he forgot to exchange "Torture" for "enchanced interrogation" when he was on with Chris Matthews. Stuff like this is rote and even understandable given his party and wingnut support from bumble Central Illinois, but his diving full-thong in the cesspool of GOP lie-smear tactic is reprehensible.

On Meet The Press, otherwise known as Dick Gregory Will Let You Spout Off Whatever Lie You Want, Schock sat in on the panel discussion, with only Rachel Maddow to fact-check his bubble-butt. Lord knows Harold Ford is a pandering pseudo-centrist fucktard that's trying to say whatever he thinks will run well in his Amos and Andy world. Schock proceeded to spew about the stimulus plan was such a spending boondoggle, before Maddow confronted him with the facts that he blatantly touted his district's stimulus projects as if he had anything the fuck to do with them.

"You, in your district, I just read that you were at a community college touting a $350,000 green technology education program, talking about how great that was going to be for your district," she said. "You voted against the bill that created that grant. That's happening a lot with Republicans sort of taking credit for things that Democratic bills do and then Republicans simultaneously touting their votes against them and trashing them. That, I think, is a problem that needs to be resolved within your caucus. Because you seem like a very nice person but that is a very hypocritical stance to take."

Dahhh-amn!

You'd think that he would learn, but no, the himbot keeps on rolling, where he jumps in with the current GOP rumor chain that the "underwear bomber" refused to giv up info after his Miranda Rights were read. Again, Ford peed himself a little, and it was up to Rachel again to school Aaron and the watching audience to the real hypocrisy that he spouts...

"What's the basis of the assertion that reading someone their Miranda rights in unsafe? We did that with every single person who's been arrested on terrorism charges since 9/11," Maddow said.

"No one's ever made an issue of it until the Obama administration and this case with Abdulmuttalab. Really, what's the problem with being read your rights that wasn't the problem before?"

This and the Newt Gingrich "the shoe-bomber was American" bullshit were not slips of communication. They are thought-out lies, lies meant to confuddle the vast portion of the American Public that casually gleans over what's presented as "the news", and follows more on a storyline than a discussion of positions. And that's what's considered valuable to the New Republican Party, so much so that Schock was appointed deputy Minority Whip by Eric Cantor, who I can imagine is insanely jealous of Schock's "star quality". I mean look at Cantor. Fu-gly. Once his hair falls out that trainwreck of a face won't make many Time covers.

And back to Schock. He's the political equivalent of the charming fratboy that will roofie your drink in order to fuck you raw. The fact that he can be swooned over is nuts. I admit I'm very concerned about the non-committal citizens of this country gleaning on to his stories, and value even more true journalists like Maddow that have the guts to confront him on it. No wonder Darth Cheney won't talk to her.