PWD People Of The Year: Curt Weldon

Coming into this year, Curt Weldon was a congressman with almost 20 years of service in the House. Exiting this year, Curt Weldon is a lame duck congressman with almost 20 years of service in the House, but none of them funnier than this one.

How was this year so funny? Well, let’s recap: Since 9/11, Curt Weldon had been hawking his theory that the U.S. government blew it. Which is true, obviously, but Weldon’s theory involved secret sources that talked only to him, in addition to a secret program called “Able Danger.” When his theory began to unravel in the early months of this year, Weldon decided to drop another bombshell: Osama Bin Laden is dead in Iran.

Despite this rumormongering, Weldon was still seen as a shoo-in for election. But then in April, he criticized his opponent, Joe Sestak, for the hospital choice he made for his daughter who had a brain tumor.

As election day neared, old stories resurfaced — his attendance at a coronation of Rev. Moon as the world’s savior, the time he went to Libya and to meet Muammar al-Gaddafi, how he somehow combined the two incidents, etc. — but Weldon began to refute any charges against him with nonsense words.

Then, FBI agents raided several homes/offices of his daughter, his daughter’s associates and Weldon’s political buddy, causing Weldon to respond by telling fellow POTY winner Stephen Morse about all the people against him.

Weldon ended up blaming every single person in the Western World for this raid, and — despite cheers of “Curt! Curt! Curt!” — he lost the election to Joe Sestak. He didn’t even give a totally awesome concession speech (something Rick Santorum blew, too).

What’s next for Curt? Well, currently, he’s telling conservative newspapers the CIA is out-of-control and helping Democrats. (With, y’know, the democrat in the executive office and all. Er.) 2006 was a good year for Curt Weldon funny, could he bounce back in 2007? Let’s hope so.

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