Where's Home For Mary Bono Mack?

Mary & Cornelius IV

Does it matter? Once most of these people get to Washington and get sucked into that Inside-the-Beltway/Inside-the-Bubble world, they completely lose whatever connection they ever had to their districts anyway. Bono Mack, of course, keeps a home in Palm Springs and forces one of her kids to live in it-- nope, it isn't Chastity Chaz Bono-- but, obviously, she lives in D.C. And when she's not in D.C., she shares a home with ex-Congressman Connie Mack III's retarded (but just the way Rush uses it, not the way Rahm uses it) son, current Congressman Connie Mack IV, in lovely Ft Myers, Florida. Connie's district has the distinction of having the most foreclosures of any CD in the nation-- projected to rise to 116,979 in 3 years-- while the Inland Empire district the little wifey's still holding onto will "only" have 51,033 by then (one of the half dozen worst in California). Both of them voted against the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009, though few districts' families anywhere in the nation needed that law to pass as badly as Mary's and Connie's.

Ensconced as they are in their palatial Beltway or Ft Myers digs, neither knows anything about what ordinary working families they supposedly "represent" need. I caught an innocuous post in Politico on Saturday about what DC power couples were doing for Valentine's Day. We found out that pathetic Illinois closet queen Aaron Schock spent the day recuperating from being publicly humiliated as a Ken Doll sputtering hypocrite by Rachel Maddow on MTP. GOP operative Grover Norquist is going to Disney on Ice with "my three lady valentines": his wife, Samah, and two daughters, Grace and Giselle. Though he asks: "Do they sell beer at such shows?" Not sure if that's in Orlando or Anaheim but Newt and his 8th or 9th wife were definitely in Florida, trading DC snow for Florida golf and sunshine. But the part that captured my imagination was about the Macks:

The favorite husband-and-wife congressional team, Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and Connie Mack (R-Fla.), plan to have a "quiet Valentine's Day," according to Bono Mack's office, "spending time together at home with their family."

Hard-pressed residents of Riverside County, California may be wondering why "their" representative calls her home Ft Myers, Florida. Most people would rate Palm Springs at least as desirable a place to live. Why do they have to take a back seat to Ft Myers? They only get one representative in the House. It ought to be someone who calls the district home. And it isn't just Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet who's hoping to give Bono-Mack the opportunity to live in her adopted homes permanently. There isn't a member of Congress teabaggers out here are more eager to defeat than Wall Street shill Mary Bono Mack. In fact, they hate her so much that they're vowing revenge on poor doltish Connie as well!

When Mary lived in California, she hung out with way cooler people