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Shays continues off the rails journey into lala land

He really does seem to have gone off the rails. It's bizarre. Eight guards from Abu Ghraib have been convicted of various offenses related to prisoner abuse - they are guilty, and their offenses happened, as a matter of law.

Can someone from CT tell us whether Shays has a history of making these kinds of strange statements? It just doesn't strike me as, well, Connecticut-type behavior.
 
Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Huh? Is this guy a wacknut or what?
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I'm sure he's a whacknut. The "whats" of the world rejected him as incompetent long ago. 😛
 
Chris Shays is not a bad guy... in fact, he bucks the 'system' regardless of what side of the isle the issue falls...
He stands on principle before anything..

He has said in this case that the events were not torture.. but rather a different kind of crime was committed against the prisioners... At least that is how I read his statement.

Edit:.. Me thinks the elements of a crime are what define it.. although one may construe this case to be torture.. you charge a crime based on the elements that fit..
 
Should we also throw out Major Owens who declared in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives that a hundred million blacks perished on the journey from Africa to America, and that so many of the dead were thrown overboard that, to this day, sharks still follow the routes taken by the slave ships.

Let's not act like craziness doesn't exist on both sides. Heck look at McKinney... what a loon.
 
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Should we also throw out Major Owens who declared in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives that a hundred million blacks perished on the journey from Africa to America, and that so many of the dead were thrown overboard that, to this day, sharks still follow the routes taken by the slave ships.

Let's not act like craziness doesn't exist on both sides. Heck look at McKinney... what a loon.
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remember the movie On Golden Pond....weren`t Loon`s mentioned?
 
Originally posted by: Jaskalas
It?s rather clear that the inmates run the asylum, regardless of party label.
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Shays is a Republican and is currently engaged in a very tough race.

I'm from CT, but not Shays district. Although I disagree with many of his positions, until recently I would say Shays was probably one of the more intelligent and thoughtful members of Congress.

In the last few months he has shown all the signs of a politician flaying around desperately trying to save his job. After supposedly being one of Congress' leading voices in support of the Iraq war (he's done 17 factfinding trips there, as opposed to the usual Congressional junket to Aruba) he totally flip-flopped this summer. Then in the last week came the Kennedy-Chappaquidict statement and now this.

It appears we in CT now have our own version of Ted Stevens. Unlike Alaska, I'm increasingly confident that Shay's 20 year Congressional career will come to an end very shortly.
 
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