The congressman and his decor: “Schock and Awe-ful’!”
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[Schock also spent thousands more on tickets for concerts, car mileage
reimbursements — among the highest in Congress — and took his interns to
a sold-out Katy Perry concert last June.]
LMAO
Katy was soooo’ happy to see one of her favorite “Katycats”!
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It looks like a Las Vegas hotel room.
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More like a room at the Mustang Ranch outside Vegas.
http://cdn.cstatic.net/cache/gallery/3348/3567394462_3a785edf82_o.jpg
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Reaction in Peoria:
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Yes. Yes it did.
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It’s not Downton Abbey décor. It’s a low rent attempt at some kind of silly post modern conceptual take on Downton Abbey décor, an attempted goof on Downton Abbey. And it’s completely inappropriate for a government office.
The way Shock dresses, his constant trips to tourist thrill rides etc, the office…I’ve been trying to figure it out. I know a closeted guy who dresses very similarly. He lives in NYC, thinks he’s really fashionable, and wears stuff (not everything, though) that is like some superficial gay Midwestern stereotype and often inappropriate to his age.
Has Shock ever posted a picture of himself enjoying a museum or a historic or cultural site?
I think these guys have the gay frivolity and decorating and appearance gene, but being psychologically walled off from the actual gay and hip community don’t have the cultural information conducive to good taste and appropriateness or urban gay (or hip in general) culture. Or something.
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“If you’re a Republican it’s OK to be a criminal”… or at least privileged!
From Monty Python’s "Search for the Holy Grail:
King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well, I didn’t vote for you.
King Arthur: You don’t vote for kings.
Woman: Well how’d you become king then?
[Angelic music plays… ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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Nothing wrong with having fun, but when he posts numerous pics to Instagram of himself and his aides having fun on the public dime it makes him seem clueless & arrogant re his job. Feeling privileged as he apparently does is much worse when he flaunts it.
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The colors in Downton Abbey do not look as garish as they do in Schock’s office. Lighting was different in the early 20th C.
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So a schmuck making $174,000 a year spends $40,000 on a splashy office.
Meanwhile, in the 18th district of Illinois:
Income and Benefits
(In 2013 inflation-adjusted dollars) Estimate
Total households 286,467
Less than $10,000 16,581
$10,000 to $14,999 11,989
(Source:http://www.census.gov/fastfacts/ )
Many of Mr Schlock-er- Schock’s constituents will never be able to afford that trip to Washington to see how their congressmen lives. I just have to wonder if Rep. Schlock-er-Schock knows how 10% or so of the households whom he represents live, and under what conditions?
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I’d like to see some of these people who feel “distressed” if they don’t have e-mail or “social media”
for one hour take up a quill pen and ink and working by candle light, on real parchment, copy a document like the Declaration of Independence by hand.
Not only thereafter and forever more would they remember what it really says, but they would have a deeper appreciation of how that document came to be.
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Yes, it damn well should.
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“…$40,000 from his personal checking account…”
Typical Republican economics:
Take taxpayer funds from one account. Move them to another account called “personal checking”. Pretend they’re now different from taxpayer money. In the final analysis, taxpayers still bought his crap.
Except now he can claim he’s been cleansed – at taxpayer expense, of course – while conservatives cheer his daring integrity.
So where did he get the money to pay off these expenses? Are the funds from his campaign coffers? Did a supporter(s) paid the expenses for him? Just where did he get the funds to reimburse the cost of decorating his Capitol Hill office in Downton Abbey style?
Haul him in front of the House Aesthetics Committee, whose motto is “De gustibus non est disputandum, my ass!”