Cover You in Oil

Back in 2007, I got a kick out of the upset victory of Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), a hard-right gadfly who got to Congress in a special election after his opponent. I sat with Broun in his well-decorated office (still the highest ratio of taxidermied animals to cubic office space I’ve ever encountered) and wrote a favorable profile of him.

Since then, he walked into bad publicity for attempting to ban softcore porn on military bases, but got re-elected anyway. Then a week ago he participated in this:

Max Blumenthal has the story. Rev. Rob Schenck, the guy who anoints a door through which President-elect Barack Obama will walk to give his inaugural address, has a pattern of doing this sort of thing. In 2006, he “adequately applied” oil to the seats in the Senate Judiciary chamber before Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s confirmation.