(Bumped. - promoted by Thomas)
According to a column by Mary Ann Akers in the Washington Post, our own Dan Burton has once again fallen into the realm of paranoid fantasy.
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) is still tilting at windmills, or large fruit as it were. Burton, whose infamous conspiracy theories during the Clinton years earned him the nickname "Watermelon Dan," is at it again.
Last night he tried to offer one of the wackier amendments to the legislative branch appropriations bill - a measure that would order a cost benefit analysis of building a transparent shield around the House chamber to protect members from getting killed.
"What this bill does is it would authorize a study to look at enclosing the chamber, the gallery chamber, with Plexiglas so that somebody can't throw a bomb down on the floor and kill a lot of us," Burton explained in testimony before the House Rules Committee. http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
That's right, our Indiana Dan wants to wrap the House gallery in Plexiglass to protect the members from mad genius bombers.
As some of you may recall, Indiana Dan is no stranger to nutty conspiracy theories. One of my favs, tho not often publicized, was a TV clip that showed how a terrorist could smuggle in a suitcase nuke. Honestly, it was almost a how-to-do-it for terrorists, assuming they could get a suitcase nuke in the first place.
This is just the latest in a series of incidents that led former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to call Burton an "embarassment" in 1998. And yet, wacky Indiana Dan is still around, goofy as ever.
Perhaps this is why Indiana Dan has 4 Republican primary challengers at last count? I wish that a well-funded Democrat would find his or her way into this race, but that seems unlikely. |
