The adorable face of the modern left, as portrayed by the ineffable Fortney Hillman “Pete” Stark, D. Calif. With his peerless combination of arrogance, stupidity, resentment and sneering contempt for the people who pay his inflated salary, it’s hard to beat Congressman Stark, among whose dubious claims to fame is that he’s the first openly atheist member of Congress, so help us God.

Stark has a long history of making absurd and offensive statements, including rank anti-Semitism. He’s a disgrace to the East Bay, to the state of California and to the United States.

So you’d think the media would be all over this clown but of course they’re not: as a Democrat, he’s viewed as “eccentric” rather than what he is: a mean-spirited timeserver who’s been in Congress since 1972 and has long since passed from an entitlement mentality to outright loathing of his constituents. As Noah Cross says in Chinatown, ”whores, politicians and ugly buildings” all get respectable if they last long enough; we know Stark is not an ugly building, so that narrows it down a little.

Remember — this is what they really think of you. What do you think of them?