After
a wild week in Jefferson City, it's a new day – and hopefully, a new Diehl –
right? Hardly.
He
couldn't wait a year or a month or even a week. Less than 24 hours after
announcing that he'd be stepping down from his elected office and his Speaker
of the Missouri State House position, John Diehl – newly disgraced predator –
shamelessly dove into the process of his own public rehabilitation by claiming,
in so many parting words before the Missouri state congress, that his text
message exchange with a teenage intern was simply "a mistake;" just a
small glitch in a "more complete" political career, which has now
come to a disgraceful conclusion.
But
was it just a glitch? Or is what we witnessed this past week The Real Diehl?
If you
think this is out of the norm for John Diehl, think again. I don't mean the specific
predator part; I mean the general scumbag part. More than the deception and the disloyalty to loved ones, it's the twisted violation of
his own self-proclaimed ideal of "family values" that brings to mind
the same word that Republicans always seems to bring to mind: Hypocrite.
John
Diehl is/was just another one of the "family values" assholes from
the right who think it's their business to tell others how to live (while
bashing government intervention in ANYTHING out of the other side of the pie
hole), but in truth can't manage their own personal lives.
And
by the way, for those of you on the Right who are saying, "What about Bill
Clinton?" … unlike the John Diehls of the world, 'ole Wild Bill didn't go
around preaching to all of creation their own opinions on who one can marry and
how one (women, especially) must treat their own bodies.
Greasy
little fuckers like John Diehl are plentiful in Jefferson City. One of them,
freshman Rep. Nick King, R-Liberty, was actually stupid enough to open his trap
in defense of Diehl.
“I’m not going to condemn the guy,” King said.
“I’m a Christian. I believe we shouldn’t be throwing stones in glass houses.”
This from an anti-choice, character-first-spouting prick who I can well imagine
has been happy to throw stones at those who don't think EXACTLY as he does.
It
even appeared that newly elevated House Speaker Todd Richardson may not be much
better when he seem to say that he and house members could learn from Diehl's
actions so as to "put ourselves in a position to not make those mistakes
again." Really, Todd? You need an example like John Diehl to make you
realize that this is bad behavior?
Forget
what John Diehl said from the dais on his last day – it doesn't matter. What
matters is the fact that this sick, sanctimonious, pious pervert had the
guts to once again put his face in front of a camera for ego's sake
instead of just slithering away.
Meet
the new Diehl, same as the old Diehl.
