The Superior Ingenuousness

To me, Representative Paul Kanjorski (D-Piss Off) has the look and sound of a man who knows he's going down in November, and knows the voters know he's going down in November, and knows the voters know he knows he's going down in November, and has dropped all pretense of giving a shit:

Last week the 13-term Democrat from Nanticoke was criticized and attacked for his statements about minorities and “defective” people. On Thursday, while appearing as a guest on WILK Radio’s Webster and Nancy Show, Kanjorski was asked if he was going to hold any public town hall meetings with his constituents.

“We will do everything we can to meet with people, but I’m not going to set myself up for, you know, nuts to hit me with a camera.”

He said often times “people can’t resist changing what you said or taking things out of context.” He said these “snippets” lead to “distortions.”

“I’m not going to arm my opponent with a baseball bat,” Kanjorski said later in the interview.

Kanjorski’s Republican opponent, Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, leveled criticism against the congressman.

“Paul Kanjorski has been in Congress for 26 years and his response to our region’s 10% unemployment rate is to call his constituents ‘nuts’ and to attack the city of Hazleton,” Barletta said. “Do these so-called ‘nuts’ who attend town meetings fall into Kanjorski’s ‘defective people’ category?”...

“Kanjorski is the one who paid a man with a camera $10,000 to follow me and my family around for five months in 2008,” Barletta said. “Kanjorski’s campaign manager (Mitchell) admitted this in a Times Leader story in November 2008.”

He doesn't care anymore, friends.  He's fed up.  He's had enough.  Enough of accountability to his constituents, enough of having to explain himself and his votes and his verbal "indiscretions."  He could say whatever he wanted before and it didn't matter because the winds were at his party's back.  But not anymore.  He's sick of it, sick of the voters who elected him thirteen times running, and so yes, he does think they're all "nuts".  Which is why there won't be a fourteen re-election in Paul Kanjorski's immediate future.

It's not fair, he tells ya.  Why does he have to be in a competitive district where he has to pretend to give a bloody pair of panties what the pawns people think about anything?  Why can't he represent a safe D+100 district where he can be as big a prick as he wants to be and say all kinds of stupid crap without a worry or a care?

Like the Iron-faced Chancellor:

You DO know that when I say that we cannot "spend ourselves rich," it's illustrative PARODY, right?  Not anymore, apparently.

Although one might ask Granny Saggy McFunbags why her Senate counterparts are so dead set against the fount of all prosperity.  Understimulated Americans may just have a right to an explanation.  After all, never moreso than in times as grim as these, laughter really is the best medicine.