Iowa Republican State Senator Mark Chelgren got himself semi-famous by wanting to put caps on the number of Democrats that state universities can hire as professors.

Chelgren thinks we have way too many Democrats teaching our college students.  You would suspect he knows that from personal experience because he claims to have a business degree from Forbco Management school.

But, it ain’t that simple. It never is with Republicans.

But State Sen. Mark Chelgren’s alleged alma mater is actually a company that operated a Sizzler steak house franchise in southern California and he doesn’t have a “degree,” Ed Failor, a spokesman for the Iowa State Republicans, told NBC News.

“This was a management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald’s,” Failor said. “He got a certificate.”

Well hell, I have a certificate from Miss Betty Lou’s College of Baton Twirling but that don’t mean I can even twirl a damn baton, much less comment on the state of the American University system.  Truth be known, I spent the money my Momma gave me for baton lessons over at the Woolworth’s on makeup and eye shadow.  Then I bribed Miss Betty Lou, who was kinda a souse, with a six-pack of Pearl Beer, which was the official beer of high school parking lot make-out session, and she gave me a certificate.  Momma never knew, except for the fact that I konked myself on the head whenever I tried to twirl that thing.

And, oh no, he didn’t stop there.  He kept lying.

“I don’t know if they are still in business or not,” Chelgren said. “The school was created by Forbco Management, and I got a degree in hotel restaurant management.”

When Chelgren did not respond to several requests to provide a copy of a diploma or some other proof that he attended Forbco Management school, NBC News reached out to the Iowa State Senate Majority Leader’s office.

He now claims to have attended the University of California at Riverside for three years.

University spokesman John Warren confirmed that Chelgren attended the school in 1992 and 1993 “with a major in physics.”

Yeah, no wonder he didn’t get a degree.  His math skills are weak.

You cannot take your eyes off these people, y’all.