Joe Walsh (R-Deadbeat Baby Daddy) has been very very busy these days complaining about all the bills that the muslim president has been running up on malt liquor and Derrick Rose jerseys. So busy, in fact, that he keeps forgetting about his own kids (whom he fondly refers to as ‘whatsername’, ‘whathisname’, and ‘the fat one’). First it was not sending money to his ex-wife (whom he fondly refers to as ‘that ball-crushing whore’) so that his kids can live slightly above the poverty line, and now it appears it has plumb slipped his mind to write down how much he owes so he won’t be forgetting anymore:
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea-Party darling who has made a name for himself on the talk show circuit lecturing Democrats to get the nation’s finances in order, has been under fire in recent weeks over charges that he’s a deadbeat dad, owing more than $100,000 in child support.
Last Thursday, Walsh told constituents at a townhall that he plans to “privately and legally” fight his ex-wife’s claims that he owes more than $100,000 in child support, which he called “wildly inaccurate.” A recent Chicago Sun-Times article reported that his ex-wife is suing him for $117,000 in unpaid support.
Yet, even if he owes just $10,000 in unpaid child support, Walsh could face the added headache of House Ethics Committee scrutiny. Walsh, who was elected in 2010 in a narrow victory over former Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) in the Tea Party-induced wave, does not list any child support debt on his financial disclosure form, as required for any liability worth more than $10,000.
“Rep. Walsh is required both by law and by congressional ethics rules to list debts in excess of $10,000 on his financial disclosure forms, including child support back payments,” said Public Citizen’s Craig Holman.
Helpful constituents should probably provide a support system for Rep. Walsh by showing up at his townhall meetings with children in ragged clothes holding signs that say “I’m hungry daddy” or “Mommy doesn’t cry as much since you don’t beat her anymore”. This would remind him to put a little something away for the kids instead of blowing it all on gay hookers and Ecstasy.
I’m sure he would appreciate that.





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You know, sometimes you are just fucking brilliant.
That post title is fantastic.
I’m sure Obama will deal with this in his next round of “negotiations.” Attached to the final shut-down of Medicare and the transfer of all Social Security funds to the Pentagon will be a rider (“the Walsh Child Care Act”) that will levy a fee of 1 percent on every unemployment check cashed to cover Joe’s legal fees. No, his kids still won’t get shit. That’s kinda how the DC crowd rolls.
Jesus Christ, I have not commented in years, but I just had to say how fucking funny that post is. Brilliant! Can you get an award?
That’s it. Every other blogger in the entire fucking universe can just quit now. Genius.
I’ll be singing that song all day long.
(btw, didn’t Joe run for President a few years back?)
…and then the local GOPers get to laugh until they piss themselves, when those kids get tasered and have rentacops drag them out feet-first, all the time slapping each other on their overstuffed backs and declaring “the little looters had it coming!”
Truly we live in enlightened times.
How much does a billboard in that district cost to rent?
Well, as long as they aren’t subject to beatings and torture like poor little Kenneth Gladney.
Hahahaha! Best line of all.
http://triblocal.com/palatine/2011/08/08/rep-walsh-town-halls-set-for-palatine-mchenry-crystal-lake/
Walsh sure has a busy schedule for someone who should be paying his wife the money he owes and paying her extra to keep quiet while he hides from the press for 6 months?
There are lots of divorced women in his district and they all seem to have ex husbands or have friends who have ex husbands who are behind in their child support.
Walsh is picking a scab and making things worse.
You win the internets for the day.
The anti Abortion groups used to put theirs up in the farm fields outside Mchenry. I saw put up fliers in the bathrooms of the local bars. If you see my Daddy please tell him to stop drinking and buy us food!
Forget birth certificates. All of these fiscal-monious teabaggers should be required to publicly release their credit reports. I suspect the proportion of deadbeats much exceeds the general population’s average.
Deadbeat dad … pretty much sums up the teaparty.
Then there’s that charming Neb AG talking about welfare recipients as scavenging raccoons. No racist coding there…. no, not at all….
This guy lives in Mchenry so is it strip clubs in Harvard or over the border in Wisconsin he spends his kid’s child support on? Maybe Keith’s Reef there is a GOP bar in Crystal Lake can’t remember the name but its where the local pols drink.
We could shadow him and get pictures.
hes probably the kind of scumbag who thinks that every cheap chinese made toy or bookbag he picked up at walmart is applied to his debt of responsibility…in the bad old days of the child welfare and protection system he would have been able to make such petty claims. I dont think that will fly anymore. of coutrse, hes a congressman now so hes above the law.
Wait he lives the wiki says in McHenry does he live in Bull Valley with the Ultra Rich can we get a street address?
Love the title, love the photo. These idiots must get out of bed every morning with a single question on their lips: “How can I, even more than yesterday, speak and behave as a complete parody of right-wing goober-moron hypocrisy?” And then they find a way.
The house ethics committee would not pass judgment on serial killers. Walsh’s only fear is FDL, but he’s too slow a reader for the internet.
His only redeeming feature is having disposed of Melissa Bean, ultra-tool of Wall Street and their primo House mole in the “Democratic” party. I’m sure she’s burrowed into some sweet directorships since that loss.
Now those are some Republican conservative family values we can Believe in:
“I got mine, so fuck you (even if you are my kids)!”
Aw come-on, you scared the shit out of me. I had to look that this wasn’t one of my music idols!
I love that too….House Ethics Committee. Sometimes you just break me up. I’d bet you LOTS of TEA Partiers have unpaid child support. I know some. They do.
Joe Walsh is ruining Joe Walsh for me.
(One of your best, T.)
Life’s been good to him-so far.
Dude, if you read this and the first thing you think of is Obama, seek immediate medical attention; A hate boner lasting more than 4 hours could lead to permanent malfunction.
This is only sorta related, but apparently, the newest Palin baby has arrived ahead of schedule.
(wonkette link)
Walsh needs to be pied. NOW.
Best blog title of the day.
Also, Congressman Walsh is a colossal hypocrite and douchebag.