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Harper’s, or at least Ken Silverstein, has a weird hard-on for Congressman Ric Keller of Florida. Don’t know who he is? That’s kind of my point.

Keller is a a 4-term Republican Congressman from a safe Republican district in Florida whose biggest leadership role in the party is as the Ranking Member on the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education, which is about as interesting and important as it sounds. He’s a conservative, family-values Republican but he’s not exactly known for being really outspoken about it and focuses most of his legislative activities on education and law enforcement issues. Keller is, frankly, not very powerful and fairly boring. (And, if you’re curious, I’ve never met him and I don’t recall ever even lobbying his staff)

The only slightly interesting thing about him is that he probably banged one of his (hot, younger) staffers years ago, divorced his wife and married the staffer. And he maybe helped her get a job before he married her. Despite this being a relatively mundane addition (to everyone but the people in question) to a really mundane existence, Silverstein dedicated no less than 1300 words to the affair, the job and the marriage — and even called Keller’s ex-wife for comment, which, way to pick at old wounds, man.

So, Ken, what is your deal with Keller? This is the biggest adulterous fish you could find to fry? Inquiring minds want to know.

Congressman Ric Keller’s Chronology of Political and Family Values [Harper's]