Conrad Burns is a flaming Assh0le. (BWAHAHAHAHA)

[The Straight Story]

Conrad Burns is a flaming Assh0le.

By background N015E | bio

I guess if your last name is Burns, and you made your money shooting off your mouth on radio, that magically gives you the right to tell firefighters how to do their job. I mean after all, how hard can it be to put out a forest fire, right?

Apparently Conrad Burns, a Republican senator from Montana, suffers from the same unwarranted sense of entitlement most senators get after becoming the incumbent. As Joe Lieberman has demonstrated, we really do have a two party system. There is the Incumbent Party and Everyone Else.

If you doubt it, consider Exhibit A from a local Montana newspaper.

"HELENA - Republican Sen. Conrad Burns chastised a group of firefighters over the weekend for doing a "poor job" of squelching a 92,000-acre blaze near Billings, a state report shows.

Burns and the firefighters - members of the Augusta Hotshots from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest in Virginia - were at the Billings Logan International Airport awaiting flights, according to Burns and U.S. Forest Service representatives.

Burns approached the firefighters and told them they had "done a poor job" and "should have listened to the ranchers," according to a report prepared by Paula Rosenthal, a Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation employee who was sent to the airport to speak with the senator.

The 92,000-acre timber, grass and sagebrush fire was contained on July 19 and the 368 people who came to fight it began dispersing a few days later."

Actually, what he really said was this:

“See that guy over there? He hasn’t done a God-damned thing. They sit around. I saw it up on the Wedge fire and in northwestern Montana some years ago. It’s wasteful. You probably paid that guy $10,000 to sit around. It’s gotta change.’’

http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/background_n015e/2006/jul/27/conrad_burns_is_a_flaming_asshole

on edit: Posted more than 4 paragraphs because 4 of them were a quote from another source (paper).