A founding member of the 1980s band Devo really does not want to see House Majority Whip Steve Scalise “Whip It Good.”
Scalise has been using the bands hit song “Whip It” at events and his staff recently created a joint fundraising committee with Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) to raise money for a 1980s-themed birthday party for him called “Whip It Good.”
But Devo member Gerald Casale wants Scalise to “get straight.”
“I think there’s a history of Republicans with a right wing M.O. appropriating things from pop culture to try and look hip,” he told the Washington Post. “I love that they completely [botch] the original meaning.”
Casale referenced Ronald Reagan’s use of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and Springsteen asking him to stop using it.
“I should take a page from Bruce Springsteen’s book and stop this,” he said. “I would if I could.”
While it seems obvious why the Majority Whip would pick “Whip It” as a theme song, Casale thought of a more colorful answer to tell the Post.
“I’m just guessing,” he said, but “I think [Scalise and his tea party friends] went for the S&M angle” because “they like to inflict pain on the masses with their politics.”
Now crack that whip…
