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One of these Paul Mitchell hairbrushes is a favorite of Blago

Blago Calls His Hairbrush “The Football” – Aides Know It Should Always Be Close

This paragraph from a New York Times story this afternoon is priceless:

And yet, Mr. Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush. He calls the brush “the football,” an allusion to the “nuclear football,” or the bomb codes never to be out of reach of a president.

My question is, do you know a politician with a hair trigger?  Do you have a good story about a particular pol’s self-important silliness?  We want to hear!  Use the comments section of this post …