[CBS News] On last night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, former House Majority leader Tom DeLay earned 15 points after dancing with stress fractures on both feet. His doctors advised him not to do it, but he did anyway.

What a dude. He obviously oozes masculinity out of every pore in his body. Because he doesn’t listen to doctors. If Tom DeLay wants to dance, he’s going to dance. No person on the face of the Earth can stop him. He is like a hurricane of Samba energy.

Of course this fails to answer two very important questions: (1) Why Tom DeLay is considered a “star”, and (2) Why we as Americans should care about this at all?