So this guy Lee Terry, he is from Nebraska — a state which, as anyone who has spent an hour and a half getting lunch in Omaha can tell you, is surprisingly tolerable! Rep. Terry is very feisty, as well, as evidenced by his reportedly telling a DC driver “Fuck you” when the driver pointed out the other day that he was jaywalking. He also got into a vulgar shouting match with Jesse Jackson Jr. once on the House floor. This alone equipped him with a one-way ticket to Awesome. [CQ via Glenn Thrush]

This is Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., from Illinois’s 2nd District, killing this dude with his hands. Jackson, who looks about 25 but is apparently 41, is a Martial Arts champion of some kind — a perfectly reasonable and probably even moral hobby for a congressman, and of no interest to us, except that he apparently threatened to kill annoying little fellow congressman Lee Terry. MORE »

In our search for most obvious rugs in Congress, we left out two audience favorites — Bill Frist and Trent Lott.

Frist, left, demands that Senator Leahy read his note aloud before the whole Senate. Lott, right, wears the scalp of late Senator Strom Thurmond in order to absorb his powers. MORE »