C-Rod Hearing Footsteps

Don't go away, it's time to play another riotous edition of Jackass Awaiting The Slaughter.

Today's contestant is Ciro "Slowpoke" Rodriguez (D-Carne Muerta), who doesn't like it when his subjects don't swallow his BS and ask for seconds:

This seems like a rather....casual version of a town hall meeting. Looks more like C-Rod just spontaneously stood up in the middle of polishing off the double-Montezuma's Revenge Special and started agitatedly ad libbing regime propaganda about CBO estimates that have been [ahem] "revised" six ways from Sunday by now and all in the wrong direction - or, rather, all in the direction the surrounding constituents expected them to go, and had the temerity to actually point out the poor, disheveled federale.

The rolled up newspaper bit was a bit less dramatic than advertised, but C-Rod made up for it by stalking slowly and menacingly toward his insubordinate lumpenproletarian wielding it. Big Government applies its Occam's Razor:

Representative Rodriguez is an elected official with a duty to represent his constituents in Congress, no matter their political persuasion, and, he volunteered and asked for this job. He wasn’t ordered into this position by some judge, as some kind of sentence. He wants this job. It is a bit stunning that, at the first sign of criticism, he loses his temper so quickly. A confident politician would have been able to field this question.

When called out on it, ought to have been able to field the questions in a manner that didn’t resort to threats and a violent outburst. That he couldn’t tells you all you need to know about the political landscape today.

My friends, there is only one word to describe what you see in this video: PANIC.

Either that, or they've got awfully big flies in Texas-23.