Does either of your U.S. Senators wear a wig or toupee?

[nevergiveup]

Sorry, just bored and curious about weird things.

[CubsFan1982]

1. I've dealt with Durbin and Obama on a personal level

And I think it's their real hair. :P

[Withywindle]

11. How personal?

I'm dubious about Durbin's combover/sideways-bangs look, myself. But I like him so much I mostly just think it's cute. :loveya:

[Patiod]

2. Specter has been joking about his new "chemo-do"

the one Republican I've voted for consistantly (not last election because I liked his opponent, but in previous ones)

[kedrys]

3. Kay Bailey Big Hair

The less said about Texas senators, the better.

P.S. John Cornyn is a complete douche. (hi sniffa!)

[KamaAina]

4. Akaka's rug is said to cover the most territory in the entire Senate

according to this somewhat dated piece (sorry):

http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/1999/11/22/toupees/

This got me thinking: Should wearing a hairpiece in public make someone fair game? Does the public deserve to know about folicular fraud? Should television commentators like Sam Donaldson be compelled to voice what every viewer in America is thinking i.e.: "How do you expect us to take you seriously when you're wearing that God-awful rug?"

Before you conclude that this would be crass, hear me out: If a congressman cannot be honest about what is happening on his very own roof, then how can we trust him to be honest about Medicare or Social Security? Also, how can we trust a person who clearly lacks the kind of friends or advisors who'd dare tell him the truth? ("George -- the rug sucks.") Do we want people who are so out of touch running the country?...

Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., are the transplant leaders. Thurmond, who was born in 1902, is at 97, probably entitled to all the plugs and brown hair and cosmetic surgery his heart desires. Just keep him away from foreign policy. William Roth, R-Del., has what must be the most egregious wig in the Senate, but you have to give him credit for at least going with gray, in keeping with his 78 years. Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H., with his rugged movie star looks (well, he kind of looks like Wallace Beery), has the second worst toupee; although Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, looks like his is the one that covers the most territory.

Third-generation rug spotter here; always happy to help. :-)

[MN ChimpH8R]

5. I hope

Lick-spittle Normie Coleman's hair is phony. Scary to think it could get that way naturally, but then I suppose lizards have strange hair anyway :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

9. Nature doesn't do that s**t. My guess is plugs or plastic. nt

[DulceDecorum]

6. Wigs, no. Toupees, no, my fellow merkins.

A family guy reference in two episodes
Man: "Hey kid, wanna buy a merkin?"
Chris: "What's a merkin?"
Man: "Why it's a pubic toupee"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=merkin&r=d

Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, which named the character of the President, one of the parts played by Peter Sellers, as “Merkin Muffley”.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/merkin.htm

A short and curly history of the merkin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,985079,00.html

Merkins are widely available on the internet
however none of the vendors will tell us the names of the Congresscritturs who have made purchases from them.

[blondeatlast]

7. Kyl wears a rug for sure, McCain either has an extraordinarily good one

or it's really all his own.

Wish I had a Democrat to speak for, but alas, no.

Rep. Hayworth is DEFINITELY a toupee, the sleazy SOB, Shadegg (mine) the real deal, but he still sucks eggs, and I've met both Pastor, Kolbe, and Grijalva, and they are all sporting what was given to them on their birthday.

[KamaAina]

10. Kyl? You think?

Don't you hate it when you go gray(er) and it doesn't?

edit: grayer

[donheld]

8. No Mine is perfectly natural