Make You Look Like Stalin . . . Posted by Michael Cohen

So yesterday I attended the Pe-Crock hearings at the House Foreign Relations Committee and since I feel that llan and Max handled the substance of the afternoon's proceedings quite wel, allow me to relay the sartorial epiphany that I experienced. At about 2:36 PM I finally understood why Republicans do so well in elections - they have great hair.

I'm not even joking here. You should see some of the manes on these guys. Click here to see what I'm talking about. Jeff Flake, Mike McCaul, Luis Fortuno and don't even get me started on Jeff Fortenberry from Nebraska. Them there are some handsome fellas.

Even Ron Paul and Dan Burton have got that avuncular, grandfatherly thing down pat. The major exception here is of course Steve Chabot from Ohio who seems to have combined some sort of comb over and homage to former Ohio Congressman James Traficant that has gone horribly awry.

Then you look at the Democratic side and it looks like a before shot from the Hair Club for Men. Seriously, what kind of image are we projecting to the world as Democrats. If it wasn't for Robert Wexler and his Semitic good looks it would be a train wreck.

You know Ilan always says we need to a better job of training progressives to talk about foreign policy and national security. Yeah, yeah that's important, but how about some toupees as well . . .

On an unrelated note, one of my favorite things about the House Foreign Relations Committee is that Steve Chabot, Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul all sit together on the far right side of the dais. Insert your own joke here.

Comments

[Peter]

Conservatives and liberals need to come together to defeat the insane warm mongaring, open border NeoCons. www.goodoleboybumperstickers.com

[Richard Grayson]

I am running against Jeff Flake and I have a good head of hair. I just had lunch with an attorney friend I know from our freshman year of college in 1969 and he asked me if I dyed it, but I don't.

I support immediate withdrawal from Iraq plus have good hair. What more could you want in a Democratic candidate?