Making Texas Republicans Proud!

Funniest thing to read about Congress ... ever.

Lame-Duck Texas Rep. Gets Down to Work Without DeLay

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs was sworn in as a congresswoman on Monday night and already she's a lame duck. Because of a weird electoral quirk, her brief term in office expires next month.

But you couldn't tell that by listening to her.

"I'm working hard to accomplish the things I'm working for," she said yesterday. "For tax cuts. For immigration reform. To make sure we have a good solution for the war in Iraq."

All that? In a few weeks?

"If there's a way to do it, I'll do it," she said, smiling beneath her bright blond hair. "I'll deal with the leadership to get as much done as possible."

Sekula-Gibbs (R-Tex.) won a race for Congress on Nov. 7. She also lost a race for Congress on Nov. 7. It's a long story:

It gets even funnier after this. Just read the whole thing and don't drink anything in the process ... you might just as well end up spitting it out onto the monitor.

UPDATE: BOR points out that DeLay's former staffers were not quite as humored by Shelley's arrival as Shelley herself was. Sheesh, what's left for a political junky's Christmas present at the rate this woman is going?