“Well, how ’bout them apples?” Juanita asks while tacking a newspaper clipping to the snack room door.

“It seems that Illinois Republican Tea party Congressspender Joe Walsh, who recently bought a Thesaurus just to find enough nasty words to say about President Barack Obama, can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.  Or make standards for you that he can’t keep,” Juanita grins.

The freshman congressman’s ex-wife, Laura Walsh, filed the claim against him in December as part of their divorce case, saying he owed $117,437 to her and their three children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in a story published Wednesday. She contends that Walsh loaned his own campaign $35,000 and took international vacations but said he couldn’t afford child support payments because he was between jobs or out of work.

“Now,” she continues, “he whines that he doesn’t own near that much.  Well, that’s certainly a relief.  Maybe it’s just $99,000, which, of course, is certainly acceptable in  financial restraint circles.”

“But it doesn’t not end there.  It seems that everybody picks on poor ole Joe.  Golly, it’s gotta be tough.”

The congressman’s alleged financial problems made headlines while he was campaigning last year, when at least one staffer claimed he would “spend, spend, spend uncontrollably.” His campaign manager quit and sued for $20,000 in nonpayment, and two other staffers who quit accused him of not properly disclosing a 2008 home foreclosure and traffic citations to the public, taking their grievances public. Walsh also bounced checks, including one to a Republican fundraiser.

“Yep, that’s pretty much everybody picking on him,” she laughs.

“Hey, Joe!” she hollers.  “Dial 1-800-waa-waaa.”

“One more thing.  Joe posted a video this month.”

President Obama, quit lying,” he said in a video posted online this month. In it he also asks Obama, “Have you no shame, sir?”

“Because not paying your child support and giving out hot checks is something to be proud of.”

“Ya wanna know the truth?  I’d have more respect for the guy if he had been caught in a bathroom stall tapping his foot.  At least that doesn’t hurt children,” Juanita rolls her eyes.

Thanks to David, Bob, Carl and Mary for the heads up.