Memo to any members of Congress reading this blog...

[dogday]

Check out the kid in the back on the right hand side...

...never, NEVER, ever decide that it's a good idea to spontaneously show up at a college frat party. Especially when you're running for re-election. Especially when the frat party in question isn't even located in your district.

(Oh, and by the way, is that guy in the far right background of the picture doing what we think he's doing -- Oh. My. God. UPDATE: A forensic effort that should be called "CSI:Politics" has found that the man in the back is smoking a "conventional cigarette," and not a "cigarette of mass destruction." )

Anyway, the congressman pictured here (helpful hint: he's the guy with the tie) is U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, a Republican from the Albany suburbs. He was apparently in Schenectady, N.Y. on Friday night attending a wake (could you make this up?), when somewhere around 1 a.m. a friend decided to bring him to the party at nearby Union College.

The Albany Times-Union's blog Capital Confidential nails down the initial story in the school newspaper:

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003194.html