Please, Please, Please Don't Pick Me to Give the GOP SOTU Response, Please!?!

First, there was Bobby Jindal:

In all fairness to Bobby Jindal... Oh, forget it, the rest of his speech was downhill from there.

Then, there was Marco Rubio:

What a difference a few seconds and a bit of dry mouth can make to a politician's career. I have no idea why, actually, but Marco Rubio went from darling to toast in those few seconds. Well, no substantive reason why.

I don't know if it was Reince Priebus or whoever that thought this year's GOP response should be given by Cathy McMorris Rodgers -- could the Repubicans have been looking for a woman? -- but she most definitely gave the response this year:

McMorris Rodgers should have stayed in her safe place, and that was in photos of the House GOP leadership as the token woman in the picture:

Yeah, that was your safe place. Why did you leave it? For a moment of fame, followed by a much longer time of derision? Yep, maybe so.

A little attention isn't always a good thing, as McMorris Rodgers is about to find out. We know who you are now, Congresswoman, and so does The Office Of Congressional Ethics:

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) faces a possible House Ethics Committee probe over allegations from a former staffer who said McMorris Rodgers improperly combined campaign and Congressional funds to win her 2012 leadership race.

The Office Of Congressional Ethics is recommending that the House Ethics Committee perform a full investigation into the matter. The news was first reported by Politico on Thursday.

McMorris Rodgers, the House's No. 4 Republican, denied that she is guilty of any wrongdoing.

As far as I can tell -- and you can ask Chris Christie about this one -- denying that you're guilty of any wrongdoing can be a forever thing.