Time To “Boogie With The Bug Man”?

(And I also posted here.)

I’ve never had one inclination whatsoever to watch “Dancing With The Stars,” and I can assure you that I definitely will not have any future desire to do so after reading this item, telling us that disgraced Repug former U.S. House Speaker Tom “The Hammer” DeLay will appear.

And just to refresh our memories, here are a few lowlights of his life in public office (dusting off the memory banks here for sure):

He claimed that abortion and illegal immigration were linked here (h/t to profmarcus for that one).

He said he was “not giving up” on the fight to have the terminally ill Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube reinserted here.

For good measure, it should be noted that his “shadow” reached all the way into PA-08, with our former U.S. House Rep Mike Fitzpatrick acting pretty much the way DeLay wanted him to, as noted here.

Well, given that our networks have chosen to link entertainment and politics, I’d like to offer some suggestions for future programming (a follow-up to this, I guess)…

“Lie To Me (Again)” starring Tom Coburn, who showed off his mysterious technique for determining whether or not people were telling the truth by their body language here.

“Mad Men II” with “Dusty” Foggo and “Duke” Cunningham, with the former keeping the latter plied with booze, hookers, and exotic travel junkets, among other goodies, in return for government contracts of course (here).

“Fools Rush In, The Sequel” with John Ensign, Mark Sanford, David Vitter and Larry Craig (one week, the setting is the “Family” home, the next is Argentina, the third is a steamy Bayou bordello, and finally, the series stops off at the Minneapolis airport men’s room).

“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,” with William Jefferson (so don’t accuse me of picking on only Repugs, OK?), in which he is given the opportunity to win a cool million he doesn’t even have to store in a freezer (of course, if he loses out, additional time is added to his sentence).

Actually (getting back to DeLay), I can pretty much sum up my response to his upcoming TV appearance with the same sentiment as a CNN commenter who advised DeLay to “break a leg.”

For real.

Update: "Expect an epic fail" - way too damn funny here (h/t Atrios).