Dickhead of the [Inconsistent Time Period] - Mitch McConnell

For the past year, I've been writing fairly inconsistently here, at B&E, and what used to be everyone's favorite weekly feature, Dickhead of the Week, has hardly been a weekly feature. Hell, it's hardly been a monthly feature. In fact, in perusing the old weblog, I haven't named a Dickhead since April. The Dickhead of the Week on that April day was Biology. So the most recent actual Dickhead was Alberto Gonzales back in March.

So a Dickhead is overdue, and I hereby name Mitch McConnell DotW.

The Senate Minority Leader from Kentucky earmarked $25 million to a war contractor currently under investigation for widespread bribery. Not only did Bitchy Mitch add this money into the bill without it being requested from the Defense Department, but I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that the defense contractor in question, BAE Systems, has donated more than $53,000 to Bitchy Mitch's reelection campaign.

A recent Nation article discussed the coalition of anti-Mitch forces coming together in Kentucky to beat the Senator in the upcoming election. As usual, the Nation paints a promising picture of the "Bluegrassroots" fighting the good fight, and it's worth reading, like most things in that fine publication.

Anyway, Bitchy Mitch is a corrupt, war-mongering, Bush-loving, special-interest embracing twerp. He is therefore B&E's Dickhead of the Week.