GOP lawmaker admits assaulting wife in public

The Republican Right has been reduced to such a slobbering mess that it now seems to have few public figures remaining besides lawbreakers who sail through life in a frenzied haze.

North Dakota State Rep. Dave Weiler is a Republican who has served since 2001. He's got a crazed Bill Sali look about him. Now Weiler has admitted that he brutally assaulted his wife at a store in Bismarck, causing her to fall to the ground.

Now Weiler has been ordered to undergo domestic violence offender treatment.

Why is this clod still in the legislature? You'd think he'd be so embarrassed that he'd resign, but he trudges on in autopilot mode.

(Source: http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/update/doc49e8d93b4271e240840538.txt)