We're so glad we're not Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida.

Not because we'd be spending our life spelling our complicated, hyphenated name for everyone.

Not because it's hard to be a Republican in Congress these days.

Not because Florida's prone to punishing hurricanes.

We're glad we're not Rep. Ros-Lehtinen because she must be cosmically, unbearably, royally and incredibly embarrassed this week.

On Wednesday, the congresswoman answered her phone. It was Barack Obama, calling to congratulate her on her re-election and saying he was pleased at the prospect of working with her as the House Foreign Affairs Committee's lead Republican member.

Yeah, sure.

Ros-Lehtinen says she told the caller "Boy, you're a much better impersonator than that guy on Saturday Night Live." And with a few more disparaging remarks, Ros-Lehtinen hung up the phone, convinced that it was a prank caller. Click!

The phone rings again. This time, it's Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff. With Obama on the line.

Yeah, sure. This is over the top, right? That's what the congresswoman thought. So she hung up again. No way this was the president-elect and his chief of staff.

It was.

It took a phone call from one of Ros-Lehtinen's colleagues in Congress, Rep. Howard Berman, to convince her the calls were legitimate.

No harm done, said Obama, when he called back for the third time. "Anytime my ego gets pumped up," Ros-Lehtinen says he told her, "Michelle will remind me that you hung up not once, but twice on me."

The congresswoman, for her part, says she was "flabbergasted" when she realized what happened. "I just hung up on the most powerful man on Earth -- twice."

So now she's managed to insult both the president-elect and the current president who, last time we checked, was still the most powerful man on Earth, for at least a few more weeks.