Recalled GOP WI Senator Arrested For Being Drunk Driving Maniac

[PeaceNikki]

http://wonkette.com/454884/recalled-gop-wi-state-senator-arrested-for-being-drunk-driving-maniac

Former Wisconsin GOP State Senator Randy Hopper may have gotten his ass recalled from office for being one of Scott Walker’s union-busting Kochmonster rat minions, but don’t let this fool anyone into believing Hooper’s all tapped out when it comes to terrorizing innocent citizens. Perish the thought: Hopper was arrested Sunday afternoon for drunkenly careening down the highway in a black Suburban that was going “all over the road” according to the police dispatch. AND HERE YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE FROM RANDY HOPPER, WISCONSIN. That’ll show em.

Hopper was driving around with his 25-year-old right-wing lobbyist girlfriend, the same one that made Hopper’s then-wife join the recall election effort against him, because he’s a ball sack.

Blue Cheddar has the dirt: http://www.bluecheddar.net/2011/10/17/former-state-senator-randy-hopper-arrested-for-drunk-driving/

[NV Whino]

1. Come-upance

I love it.

[dtexdem]

6. Come downance:

I love it even more. ;-)

[Angry Dragon]

2. the mighty fall

[cui bono]

3. It's all Walker's fault.

;)

[gratuitous]

4. Can a run for governor be in Mr. Hopper's not-too-distant future?

Sounds like the perfect Republican candidate, driving drunk with his mistress beside him. All he needs is a few months off, a conversion in which scales fall copiously from his eyes, and a new-found dedication to fiscal discipline and austerity for everyone else.

[rurallib]

7. doesn't he have to call a press conference to repent in public

with his wife by his side?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[gratuitous]

9. Yeah, that's the scales falling from the eyes moment

And as for the wife at his side, that will be de rigeur. Whether that's the present Mrs. Hopper or a Mrs. Randy Hopper to be named later is a negotiable point.

[sofa king]

10. He needs to spend more time with his homewrecker.

Twenty years ago, I used to believe that stories like this were outliers, and that Republicans in general were decent humans like the ones I know.

But they're not. Republicans who aspire to leadership seem to be universally narcissistic, unable to empathize, greedy, and unconcerned with the wake of disaster they leave behind them. That they are as a group all of those things simply cannot be argued against in light of our current state of affairs. But they also appear to be shitty people as individuals.

Today I truly believe that if everyone assumed that to be true, and were ready to pounce on the behavior they know they're going to see sooner or later, we would have to kick the weed-sellers out of jail to make room for them all.

Social scientists have already agreed upon a term for Republican politicians. They are "double right-wing authoritarians," and in the broad strokes they are indistinguishable from the politicians who bolstered Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, the Kims, Duvaliers, and so on. Today's politics define them as "Republicans" here, but history is replete with their ilk going back to the dawn of records, across all political spectra.

Our society will never recover from the damage they have caused until we find a way to contain them, perhaps by identifying them early, watching them closely, and busting the snot out of them the first time they behave in accordance with their base nature, rather than letting them quietly rise through the ranks to positions where they can cause major damage.

[JaneQPublic]

5. Karma's a bitch. (nt)

[Old and In the Way]

8. Republicans - a growing public menace

My Local state rep just got indicted for criminal threatening of a citizen with a handgun at a local Dunkin' Donuts. His lawyer claims he had a nervous breakdown, but that doesn't explain why he ran and got elected as a Teapublican.