No one will probably ever know what was going on in former New York Rep. Eric Massa’s head last week.
First, he announced that he was resigning because of the reemergence of cancer. Then, it emerged that he was being investigated for sexual harassment of some male staffers. It involved something regarding his overly enthusiastic tickling [...]

read more from this topic.....

White Plains, New York, Mayor Adam Bradley is this week’s “Fool of the Week” for being involved in a domestic dispute with his wife, then brushing it off as something that will not interfere with his work as mayor.
In that incident, Bradley’s wife, Fumiko, claimed to police that her husband grabbed her fingers and shoved them in [...]

read more from this topic.....

It has been a week for idiocy in politics. Usually, it is easy to choose the “Fool of the Week,” but this week is filled with them.
There is Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall who claimed that God was seeking vengeance on women who have abortions with the curse of birth defects on later children.
Venezuelan President Hugo [...]

read more from this topic.....

This week’s “Fool of the Week” is Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.
It appears that Goodman has made Barack Obama the bogeyman for all of Las Vegas’ tourism woes.
It is true that a year ago Obama made a comment that executives of federally bailed-out companies should not use the money for trips to Las Vegas. Goodman [...]

read more from this topic.....

New Brunswick legislator Abel LeBlanc earns “Fool of the Week” for flipping the Bird at two opposing legislators during a legislative assembly session.
When an opposing legislator complained that LeBlanc constantly insults her, LeBlanc gave her the finger. When another lawmaker rose to her defense, LeBlanc gave the finger to him as well, along with words [...]

read more from this topic.....

Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is this week’s “Fool of the Week” for jumping onto the birther bandwagon.
Ramsey responded to a question when he said, “I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not.”
Ramsey went onto say this is not the issue Americans are concerned about and called it [...]

read more from this topic.....

John Edwards can never get enough recognition for being an idiot, a jerk, a cad or whatever anyone wants to call him except honorable.
In the week that an explicit sex tape is confirmed to exist, John Edwards heads to Haiti to help the unfortunate. Of course, it is also the week that his wife, Elizabeth [...]

read more from this topic.....

South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer earns “Fool of the Week” not just for comparing the feeding of stray animals to government assistance but for suggesting that free and reduced lunches for children be eliminated if government-assisted parents do not attend PTA meetings.
Bauer is running to replace Mark Sanford as South Carolina’s governor.
Bauer’s intention to [...]

read more from this topic.....

It has taken a couple of weeks for most of the story to spill out, but the affair between then 58-year-old Iris Robinson and then 19-year-old Kirk McCambley is one of the most unusual political sex scandals of recent memory.
Women politicians have generally avoided becoming embroiled in sex scandals. In this case, Robinson’s affair with [...]

read more from this topic.....

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly earns this week’s “Fool of the Week.”
Daly made a New Year’s resolution to say “fuck” during every meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Already identified as one of more foul-mouthed politicians in the San Francisco Bay area, it looks like Daly wants to pad his reputation before his term [...]

read more from this topic.....