First, the Democrats lost a seriously weird election yesterday in New Orleans. Corrupt douchebag William Jefferson, who hid bribes in his freezer, lost to Joseph Cao, who will be the first Vietnamese American in Congress. Pretty surprising, because the district has a PVI of D+36–making it more Democratic than any district in the whole country is Republican, and Obama won it by better than 70-30. This is the best kind of purge, because the Democratic majority is big enough that they don’t need odious people like him.
Secondly, the two most senior Republicans in the House, who have been serving since 1971 and 1973, respectively, both have the surname Young.
Don Young, born 1933, corrupt Alaskan icon.
Bill Young, born 1930, cranky old Floridian with only a High School diploma.
(Incidentally, the third-most senior Republican is named Jerry Lewis. He’s not the comedian Jerry Lewis, but he looks like Kevin McCarthy from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
The party of the future!
Suck the Rainbow 