It is not very hard to find glaring examples that the members of the Senate are no more stable or high minded than any cross section of the population as a whole. We have been treated to the sight of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) holding up the unemployment checks of hundreds of thousands of Americans because he does not like what the majority of both parties have decided. Are we to really believe that a man who allowed “Tough Shit” to be entered into the record of the Senate is of more sound judgments than some of the Dirty Freaking Hippies that blog and drop the f-bomb on a regular basis?
How about Sen. Larry Craig, who showed the sage judgment of a Senator when he was arrested and convicted for soliciting sex in a airport men’s room? Or Sen. Jim Webb who did not remember that while you can go armed with a concealed weapon in Virginia (and he …

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