Ah...I'd almost let this pass without comment, which would be very uncharacteristic of me. Former pretend Congresswoman from TX CD-22 (my old haunt), Shelley Sekula Gibbs, whom one wag once called "Dracula C--t", sadly lost her bid to become a real Congressman last week. By losing to a never-was by the name of Pete Olson, Dracu...er, Sekula Gibbs has deprived late night comedians and the writers from The Daily Show of a potential comedy gold mine. How fertile a source of self-parody was Sekula Gibbs? Well, check this out:
Her staff quit almost immediately after she came into Congress in 2006 for her seven-week reign of terror as Tom DeLay's replacement.
She vowed to overhaul the tax code and fix the Iraq war during that time, too.
Voters in her heavily Republican district opted for Democrat Nick Lampson that year rather than suffer the agonies of spelling her name correctly on a write-in ballot.
In this most recent humiliating episode, Senator John Cornyn and pretty much every other Republican in the state endorsed Pete Olson, a former Senate aide.
The first accomplishment was perhaps the most entertaining. In the space of seven short weeks, she accomplished what previously might have been unthinkable: she made people forget about Tom DeLay. The single most venal and corrupt Texas Congressman in modern history has his 22-year reign of corruption of self-aggrandizement eclipsed in SEVEN weeks by a dermatologist and intellectual lightweight best known for being a political nonfactor on Houston's City Council.
Now CD-22, formerly a haven to self-absorbed, knee-jerk, knuckle-dragging uber-Christian Republicans, will have to settle for either continued competent and committed representation or yet another slash-and-burn Republican ideologue. Having living in the district for 10 years, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Christian troglodytes in Ft. Bend County toss Nick Lampson out for an unknown, but reliably lock-step Republican non-entity.
I will miss Dracu...er, Sekula Gibbs, though.... ;-)
