One of my favorite Sunday past times is watching the political duke-outs on Meet The Press. Today’s episode definitely did not disappoint. Whereas I do lean to the political right, David Gregory of MSNBC is one of the hardest interviewers on TV.

As David Brooks mentions, Joe Biden’s interview was laughable. I’m not sure he had his usual coffee pick-me-up before the show.

But the biggest knock out of the episode was the proverbial ass-kicking to freshman representative from Illinois, Aaron Schock (R-18). As the now youngest senator ever in the House and first born in the 1980′s (woo!) I think he bit off a little more than he could chew. I’m not sure Vice President of the Peoria School Board and finishing his Bradley finance degree in two years qualified him to speak for the Republican party on the political ping pong that has taken place over national health care legislation, or to rebuke the claims of those with more time in Washington than he’s been alive.

Now as an Illinois-bred, card-carrying member of the born-in-the-80′s clan, I want to see one of my own excel. But appoint the youngest, least experienced member of the House as the deputy minority whip and then go toe-to-toe on Meet The Press? Well I was the vice president of my high school class, so maybe I’ll use that on my Secretary of the Army application.

I hate Rachel Maddow, but she does her research. Schock was unable to respond with anything more intelligible than Republican-spun PR threads of gold. I smell a mimbo Sarah Palin coming from the Great Plain State of Illinois.

He couldn’t even compare the hypocrisies of his party to the general hypocrisies of the Obama administration. What about the backward-looking blame games Obama promised not to play upon taking office, until the PR problems got really hard. Or how about promising to create jobs and cover down on the deficit by spending billions of dollars borrowed from China?

I think it’s great he is able to have so much success at such a young age. But this guy better have his staff brief him up to speed on matters outside the school board if he has ambitions for another term.

And maybe he should consider going back to Bradley for the two years of International Relations, Constitutional Law and Public Policy that he missed out on.

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