The Indianapolis Star has an editorial excoriating Congressman Dan Burton (the candidate they endorsed for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District). The editorial is a follow up to a Maureen Groppe story on how Burton has been playing hookie from his job as a Congressman, missing votes to go play golf.
The editorial concludes:
So here’s the score: Burton would rather play golf than attend a hearing on Iraq. He shows up for work less often than a 20-year-old slacker who refuses to move out of his parents’ basement. He has little shame when it comes to accepting expensive gifts. And he feels immune from voters’ wrath because he’s been handed a heavily gerrymandered district that might as well hang up “Democrats need not apply” signs.
Sweet gig, Dan.
Do we really want Dan showing up for votes?
He showed up long enough to badger Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general to Iraq, in yesterday’s hearing on the CPA’s handling of Iraqi funds.
His argument was ludicrous – namely that Bowen should have travelled to all the various minitries to track down what happened to the unaccounted for funds. Of course this wasn’t the his responsibility and it certainly wasn’t part of his audit.
But that didn’t stop Burton from interrupting/O’Reillying him every chance he got. He finished up by telling Bowen he “should be a politician”.
I guess we could say the same thing about Mr Burton…
excoriating: “to censure scathingly”
Weeee… new word for my lexicon! Thanks, Doug.
My pleasure. I’m just glad I’m through high school where I got picked on for using big words.