Our capital suffers from a crisis of aesthetics.
It’s not just, as the saying goes, that D.C. is just Hollywood for ugly people. But swamp monsters are also incapable of styling themselves. Ill-tailored Brooks Brothers suits and gauche pant suits hide the physiques of our occasionally fit neighbors. Despite being flushed with cash, half the men here can’t get a decent haircut, and the Botox jobs make the women look more stiff than Nicole Kidman in 2005.
So when a politician actually looks hot for a change, people notice. And this week, that politician is Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich.
Amash has dominated the news cycle for breaking the party line and backing beginning impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Although I disagree with his assertions that Trump’s behavior, however reprehensible, warrant impeachment and that Attorney General William Barr willfully misrepresented the Mueller report, Amash’s independence and ideological consistency is admirable.
But enough about politics. It’s 5 o’clock on a Wednesday, I’ve written too many thousands of words today on an investigation I’m very, very bored of, and I have a Happy Hour to attend. So let’s just take a moment to appreciate the little things in life, like Justin Amash donning a very flattering polo and showing off some pretty swole arms.
justin amash held a gun show at his town hall ? pic.twitter.com/BRO74rexWB
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 29, 2019
Rep. Justin Amash at town hall: ‘My job is to protect the Constitution’ https://t.co/EYYxbsJjIn pic.twitter.com/ac245FM1no
— QuorumCall ?? (@QuorumCall) May 29, 2019
I feel the media is really dropping the ball on the most important reveal from Justin Amash’s town hall last night pic.twitter.com/3cqvWaJwNS
— I am Paunchy Parker (@lumpydoughboy) May 29, 2019
I am always opposed to projecting weird Freudian fantasies onto politicians. But most things in the news are pretty terrible right now, so let’s just take a moment to appreciate the fact that one of our most principled conservatives in Congress is also kind of a babe.
