How pathetic-- Freshman Congressman acts like punk at White House.

Residents of Appleton, Wisconsin sure have reason to be proud of their newly-elected Congressman Steven Kagen...at least the immature ones do.

This guy recently spoke before a group of his anti-war constituents and bragged about his boorish behavior during his first visit to the White House after he was graciously invited there.

According to the story, first reported by his own hometown newspaper Valley Scene, he boasts of first encountering Karl Rove in the men's room. Kagen claimed that as Rove attempted to leave, he [Kagen] blocked the door shut so that Rove couldn't exit and said, “You’re in the White House and you think your safe, huh? You recognize me? My name’s Dr. Multimillionaire and I kicked your ass.” Then he followed Rove down the hall and badgered him about some legislation that he wanted passed. He then told his admiring whack-job audience about how he then spotted Vice President Cheney and went out of his way to confront the Vice-President and make some childish remarks about how he [Kagen] could not have won his close election but for the V.P. campaigning in his district for the other guy. And then he launched into an anti-war tirade and tried his hardest to belittle Cheney. He kept at this until he was given a chance to have his picture taken with the President, at which point he proudly told everyone how he walked up to the President of the United States in the White House and spewed some of the same punk comments about the election at President Bush that he'd already hurled at Rove and Cheney. Then to top it off, he claims that he deliberately called the President's wife "Barbara" instead of addressing her as Mrs. President or even her actual name--Laura. As Kagen himself reported it: "Then I go to his wife, ‘Hi Barbara, how are ya?’ I did that because I learned on the campaign that the meanest thing you can say to another gentlemen is, ‘he’s a fine fellow,’ and you then refer to his spouse by a different name.”"

So this dork gets an invite to the White House that was offered in the spirit of conciliation and cooperation, and all he does is roam around acting like a total dick. Then he goes home and brags about it and expects people to look up to him.

Well that might happen on a playground, but few adults are going to appreciate his conduct. And his constituents should expect that any legislation that he offers is as good as vetoed, and I hope that it happens. Now in all honesty, it may not, because unlike Steven Kagen, our President is a class act and he can overlook it when an immature novice legislator feels the need to act a fool to impress a dozen radical lefties and perhaps a few grade-school bullies in his district. All I can do is applaud the President for not snatching Kagen up by the collar and hurling him right out the White House door into Pennsylvania Avenue. God knows that I would have done so. It's probably a good thing that I'm not the President, because if some jackass nobody like Kagen had disrespected me and my family and friends in my house, I'd have put my foot so far up his ass that he'd be burping up shoeleather.

Here's another couple of reports of his asinine behavior at the White House:

Hot Air
Inside Scoop

Oh--and apparently he plagerized another legislator's website when he ran for office too. But what can you expect from this guy? As fond as the President is of assigning nicknames to people, he should call Kagen "recess" from now on because the Freshman from Wisconsin's got no class.