Steve Kagen's "George Costanza moment.

Steve Kagen's "George Costanza moment."

Newly elected Wisconsin Democrat Steve Kagen was our Monday National Villain for bragging to some Wisconsin rag that he had taken the opportunity of a White House soiree for new Congressfolk to insult Laura Bush, Karl Rove, and everyone else he happened across.  It's instructive the the title of this article was Kagen introduces a little levity to the White House."  Pretty much what I expect from these pissants. In the comments to my post TFV           Samurai Attorney General TFV wrote " Not only is it immature and classless but according to the article I read-- it's a damn lie! He made it up! Who makes up crap that makes you look bad?? I meant to follow up on that, but Mother Superior had just left on holiday, and I'd found where she hid the keys to my Hovaround            And it didn't cost me a penny and was off to the liquor store. Today Tom Bevin has all sort of interesting things to say about this classless peace of offal.  Short story, he barely squeaked by in a Republican leaning district, winning by 2% of the vote.  His constituents are not happy.  Here's just a taste. Needless to say, Kagen's antics and subsequent obfuscations have brought him an avalanche of bad press. On Wednesday the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran an editorial telling Kagen to "grow up" and saying the episode "calls into question both Kagen's judgment and maturity." The left-leaning Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial board also wrote an open letter to Kagen on Wednesday that read, in part: At this point, we really don't know what to believe -- and we increasingly don't care. We recognize the truth may be somewhere in between "kicked your ass" and "social interaction." And we're not sure which is worse: being a boor or being a blowhard. Columnist Stew Rieckman called it Kagen's "George Costanza moment." Letters on the subject have been even more harsh.   Let's call Kagen the first brick in 2008's Road Back to Sanity.