Why We Can't Have Nice Things In This Country, Cont.

 Here's your Republican base, right here:

A Tennessee tea party Republican congressman told a frightened little girl at a town hall meeting on Thursday in Murfreesboro, TN that laws are laws and that her undocumented father is going to have to be deported. According to ProgressivePopulist.org, 11-year-old Josie Molina told Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R) that she has papers but her father does not.

During a question and answer session at the meeting, Molina stepped up to the microphone and, with a quavering voice, asked, “Mr. DesJarlais, I have papers, but I have a dad who’s undocumented. What can I do to have him stay with me?”

Rather than make any attempt to assuage the girl’s fears, DesJarlais said, “Thank you for being here and thank you for coming forward and speaking,” but “the answer still kind of remains the same, that we have laws and we need to follow those laws and that’s where we’re at.”

The tea party crowd whooped and applauded wildly as the little girl took her seat, head down. Progressive Populist reported that Josie Molina’s father is currently in the process of being deported and that the girl is seeing a child psychologist in order to cope with the stress and anxiety.

What sweet people.  Oh, you may remember Rep. DesJarlais as the serial adulterer who was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2012 by his tea bagger constituency.  He's says he's gotten himself right with Jesus though, so move along.

Rethug Sex Blotter: Tea Bagger Congressman Edition

Another election cycle, another far-right Rethuglican tea bagger exposed for the foul hypocrite that he is. This time it's Rep. Scott DesJarlais (Creep-TN), a then-married, "pro-life," practicing physician, who pressured his mistress to get an abortion back in 2000. Apparently, it wasn't the first affair for DesJarlais, either. You can read the transcript of a call DesJarlais made to his mistress at the link.

Of course, to us it's not shocking or surprising any more for a Rethug to turn out to be someone different than what he/she projects (hello, Willard!). Do Democrats get caught in hypocritical acts? Of course they do. But for the most part they haven't positioned themselves as guardians of public morality; Rethugs do. That's part of the scam they run for their vaguely sentient base. But sometimes pious rhetoric can rear up and bite you in the ass, whether you're in office or just a Rethug water-carrier (hello, Rep. Newtie Gingrich, Rep. Bob Livingston, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Sen. Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, "Pills" Limbaugh, etc., etc. - look them up if they're not familiar). Now you can add this creep's name to that list. Oh, by the way, he's leading his Democratic opponent for the moment.

(Photo: Rep. Scott DesJarlais, prototype Rethug)