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Who is this monster who beat up homeless Willy Wonka and stole his jacket? Oh it’s just your kindly Senator Bob Bennett from Utah, asking the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee if they would like some licorice sticks. They’re in the back of his van. His windowless van.
SEXY UPDATE:
Oh ha ha it’s Seersucker Thursday in the Senate! It’s a tradition of some sort!
Thanks to “Michael” for this frightening image.
I would totally give that guy a loan.
I’m thinking that’s a moire pattern, but still. Maybe it’s the magical underpants shining through.
“Look at my suit, your eyes are getting heavy. You feel tired and sleepy. Sleepy…”
Have they already replaced John Ensign?
As his contribution to the regeneration of the economy, he’s letting the Fed rub his head for good luck.
Nice neckballs, penis pate.
I need to change my pants now. Thanks.
Is that suite made out of television interference? I thought DTV was supposed to get rid of that.
Wow. If the jacket has Hypno-Vision, one can only imagine what the magic underwear do.
Seersucker looks just dead tacky on anyone who isn’t blood kin to Colonel Sanders, Colonel Reb of Ole Miss, or George Will.
Extemporanus: I was just informed by my wife that those are actually “necknutz” NOT “neckballs”.
I think she knows what’s she’s talking about, because she’s wearing mine right now. (Looks great on her btw!)
“We’ve got trouble. Right here in Salt Lake City. That starts with T which rhymes with P and that stands for polygamy.”
I thought it was the preacher guy from Poltergeist part deux
Is this a still from that Watchmen movie?
White silk jacket? Bow tie? 10 points for style, Sen. Bennett.
Closer to current-day Malcolm McDowell, if he sang in a barbershop quartet at Disney World after preparing his head in a bowling ball polisher.
Oh, Jeebus, from the dark corners of my mind comes the memory of the suit I was wearing in my 1977 high school senior photo — it’s why I can never go home again.
Anyway, I wonder if Bob still has the Farrah Fawcett swimsuit poster on his bedroom wall.
Whaaa?? I thought all Republicans were porcine, doughy pantloads…
All that is missing is a paper garrison cap…say mister, can you whip me up another pineapple phosphate.
What a “jerk”!
And I just read some stupid article that said preppy is back.
Does it still count as summer solstice if it RAINS EVERY FUCKING DAY AND SO YOU CAN’T SEE THE SUN?
OT, but I’m cranky.
Unfortunately, that horrible jacket reminds me of this.
Who stole Matt Lesko’s question marks?
“You look so nice in your cocksucker suit…”
jodyleek: Oh, crap. This.
tunamelt: According to LNS, it never left.
I’ll bet ‘Seersucker Thursday’ means something waaay different to the GOP members…
You have to love Dress Up Like A Slave Trader Day at the US Senate.
Shouldn’t he be selling ice-cream from a pushcart on the Joisey shores?
he is sooooo taking me back to my favorite pedophiliac movie hero from childhood.
the shifty-eyed, bad joan jett wig wearing, hunchback from chitty chitty bang band who lured dick van dyke’s retarded children into HIS windowless “candy van”.
and, strangely enough, utah is exactly where I expected him to live. he and his fourteen wives, all of whom he lured, at one time or another, into his “candy van” with promises of an all-day sucker.
definitely a “don’t miss while shrooming” flick. just a tip.
queeraselvis v 2.0: I would pay good money for a picture of a member of Senate in a seersucker shorts suit with knee high socks.
More proof that the Senate is made up as follows: 30% people you’ve heard of; 40% average joes and janes who prefer NOT to be heard from; and 30% undead.
Black socks and sandals would definitely top off that ensemble.
Typical Republicans. The Capitol has had air conditioning for 50+ years, yet they keep on trying to bring us back to the 1900’s.
Doesn’t the Book of Revelation foretell the dead rising from their grave as a sign of the end of the world? Because seriously…
Good lord, I assumed the references to Seersucker Thursday were a joke! Silly me, it’s the US Senate that’s a joke.
Seersucker suits are awesome. Everytime I see one it takes me straight back to the time I was in a local production of “The Music Man.” Good times.
(sing with me!) “OOOH, there’s nothin’ halfway / about the Iowa way we treat you / when we greet you / which we may not do at aaaalllll…
He looks like a bizarre cross between Willy Wonka and Michel Foucault. Gyah.
nappyduggs: Heh, I didn’t see yours.
I can see Will Shortz’ next crossword:
24 Across: ____sucker Thursday at the US Senate
Lascauxcaveman: Yeah, The Music Man starring the Cryptkeeper: “Join us for seventy-six…tromBONES!!!! EEEEEHEEEEHEEEEHEEEEE!”
Mr Blifil: A William Styron reference. Excellent.
Lascauxcaveman: :)Good taste is simply not exclusionary. Ask the US Senate.
Accordion-o-rama: I just messed myself. Neat. Thank you.
Reminds me of Matthew Lesko, the free government money guy. It’s not exactly the question mark suit, but it is wacky.
Is Roland Burris participating in Seersucker Thursday? That would be a very amusing picture.
It was supposed to be me. He’s just my seersucker proxy.
Great. Can’t wait for Zoot Suit Tuesday.
Come here a minute: He looks like the Riddler.
Jesus Christ, get a wooden stake.
Hmmm…
“…He named that fabric “seersucker,” from Persian words meaning “milk and sugar.” ”
Senator Bennett is a secret muslin wearing Muslin?
Small refinement: he’s Malcolm McDowell in the film Evilenko (loosely based on the serial killings of Andrei Chikatilo).
Well. I “see” “suckers” but it has nothing to do with lightweight southern fabrics.
The gentleman is wearing what is called a “full Utah”.
Look closely. Bennett has pink eyes. Chilling.
Seer-stone sucker Senator struts silky seersucker suit.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
Chums, that man is richest dude in the whole entire U.S. Senate. Also, intertwined with the CIA and Howard Hughes. Mock him at your motherfucking peril.
cal: heh
Seeing this guy reminds me of how much I miss Michael Chertoff. That guy was cool looking. Is it true he is now living in a FEMA Formalda-Glide trailer?
Yack, “seersucker thursday” — this explains the facebook update message of a girl I went to high school with. I’d always imagined that she would be married to a sexually confused GOP senator by now, but alas. It’s always nice when people with coke connections inform you of said connection via clothing choices.
Well, now we know who will replace Heath Ledger as the Joker.
“I’m just a simple hyperchicken from a backwoods asteroid…”
BklynIlluminati: But Bennett comes off more like Roman Grant, the Mor(m)on Cult-leader (as described by the Department of Redundancy Department) in HBO’s “Big Love” series….