Alas, the poor Congressman II

Just a few quotes from this article so you can catch the full horror of what has happened to some of our Congressmen:

Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make-shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.

He is all at loose ends, angry and bitter, and who can blame him. Those ungrateful voters kicked him out of office for trivial personal stuff, like the 911 call to police that he was choking his wife and pushing her around the house. You've got to feel sorry for him, especially in light of this:

"There's a lot of upheaval in his life," Weldon [R-Florida] said. ""It's one thing if you're behind for six months and see it coming," he said of Sweeney's election loss. "What do you do now? How do you feed yourself and your wife?"

But, in case you are concerned about how Sweeney will feed himself and half-strangled wife, consider his job prospects as an ex-US Representative:

Rep. John McHugh, R-Pierrepont Manor, Jefferson County, a close Sweeney associate, said his friend is "not limited by lack of opportunities." ... "A good number of people have come forward and talked to him about opportunities," McHugh said. "He's built up enormously important contacts ... He'll have options to take him in different paths. As to knocking him down, if you land a lucky punch, you don't keep him down for long."

I'll leave the exact nature of those 'contacts' to your imagination.