Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:24pm

Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) will resign from Congress amid a controversy over his spending habits, Politico reported Tuesday.

In a statement to Politico, the congressman said he will resign effective March 31.

So long, dearie.

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:26pm

I know that he is out of a job, but is he "out"?

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:28pm

I was just about to post this!

At least now he'll be able to come out.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:29pm

Well, it's not like it would ruin his political life if he did.

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:29pm

Now he can finally make an honest man out of his roommate.

#6

Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:30pm

The heteros can keep him.

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....but the world goes 'round

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:33pm

I can't lie, he's at the top of my hate-**** list.

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 2:38pm

That's okay. Especially now that he can't do harm.

#9

Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 3:01pm

As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon."

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#10

Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 3:04pm

How will he afford tickets to the Madonna tour?

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 3:57pm

He can spend more time with his photographer now. And RuPaul's always looking for new members of the Pit Crew...

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 4:03pm

If only all he had been doing was pooping in diapers with his prostitutes, he'd be the next governor of Illinois.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 4:42pm

"The heteros can keep him."

Nah, he's all yours.

Updated On: 3/17/15 at 04:42 PM

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 4:44pm

I think it may be better this way, broheim.

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Updated On: 3/17/15 at 04:44 PM

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 6:14pm

This obnoxious smirk brought to you by...taxpayers!

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 6:39pm

Shock explained his spending habits are why his friends consider him The Carrie, while his no-nonsense "personal photographer" is The Miranda.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 7:12pm

Carrie on the streets, Samantha under the sheets.

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 7:30pm

That's why they call him the Schock Gobbler!

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 7:36pm

You put me in a state....ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/17/15 at 7:37pm

Something tells me he would cringe administering the Schocker.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/18/15 at 8:59am

Yesterday afternoon the multiple FB threads on this mofo checking out of his red room made schadenfreude an Olympic sport once again, all topped off, so to speak, by Barney Frank adding "no straight man goes to the gym that much." Oddly enough, only the shallowest of observations serves, Frank's boilerplate bitchery sounding like cutting edge pasquinade. And then last night on MSNBC of all places that sniveling NY Times reporter Jeremy Peters tried to mansplain this political implosion (to Joy Reid, of all people) as "tragic." If this narcissistic imp's descent is tragic, Aristotle is turning over in his urn.

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Updated On: 3/18/15 at 08:59 AM

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/18/15 at 9:08am

I have to admit I find this final scene a complete let-down.

I was so hoping this story would end in a public coming-out on Ellen's show--complete with her getting him up for some embarrassingly bad white-boy dancing or startlingly good girly twirling--along with a major mea culpa for his anti-gay votes. (That was the part I was really hoping for.)

And maybe, because he was such a Downtown fan, a surprise on-set visit and hug from Lady Rose--or Thomas!

But no, instead we get bad bookkeeping and petty theft (or not so petty).

What a putz. As graceless in his exit as he was in his excess.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/18/15 at 12:04pm

Oh dear! To lose your job over a not-very-good imitation of something that was not very good in the first place is rather careless - Congressman Schock should have consulted Girouard.

"...the interior (with the exception of one room) is of a notably lower standard than the exterior."

And on the main hall, "...illiterate and curiously old fashioned".

Mark Girouard on Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey) in The Victorian Country House, Yale University Press, 1979.

Updated On: 3/18/15 at 12:04 PM

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/18/15 at 12:10pm

^ The Downton Abbey office (or--more to the point--the media coverage of it that he arranged) might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's not the reason he's leaving office. It merely opened the door and allowed the more serious ethics violations to come to light.

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Aaron Schock is Out! (of Congress!)

Posted: 3/18/15 at 12:13pm

I love his Republican math. Bill the government for 170,000 miles driven on his car, then sell the car with only 90,000 miles on the odometer.

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