Only a Republican would be stupid enough to accuse himself of plagiarism in an effort to improve his reputation.

Here’s the post I promised to write with our latest Putz of the Week award! This time the Howdygram is honoring Russell Pearce, the first vice-chair of Arizona’s Republican Party and disgraced (and recalled) Arizona state senate president, for some seriously shitty remarks he made on September 6 on his weekly radio talk show. Pearce is a first-degree jackass and anti-Semite who eats lunch with white supremacists and shills for the Corrections Corporation of America, which has never met an immigrant it didn’t want to throw into prison.

“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth control implants or tubal ligations,” Pearce said on his radio program. “If you want to reproduce or use drugs or alcohol, GET A JOB.”

In addition to forced sterilization, Pearce also thinks recipients of public assistance should be tested for drugs and alcohol and receive reduced food aid with strict limits as to what they’re allowed to buy. You know ... 15-pound bags of rice, beans, blocks of cheese and powdered milk. You want cookies or a frozen pizza? GET A DAMN JOB. And to make sure the poors are “in compliance” their homes would be subject to random searches without warrant. In other words, PEARCE WANTS TO ESTABLISH A FUCKING CONCENTRATION CAMP.

After bipartisan outrage demanded that Pearce step down from his statewide position and basically DROP DEAD, he submitted his resignation on Sunday and essentially claimed he had plagiarized the offensive remarks. “Recently on my radio show there was a discussion about the abuses to our welfare system,” Pearce said in his statement. “I shared comments written by someone else and failed to attribute them to the author. This was a mistake. This mistake has been taken by the media and the left and used to hurt our Republican candidates.”

Holy shit, people ... only a Republican would be stupid enough to ACCUSE HIMSELF OF PLAGIARISM in an effort to improve his reputation!

Thank you for reading this. I’m going to watch TV now with Sam and eat some crunchy things from a bag.