Calling him “the Senate’s Jay Leno,” Washingtonian magazine once again named Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., as the “funniest” man in the U.S. Senate. In its latest survey of 1,700 Capitol Hill aides, Roberts earned double the combined votes of second-place Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and third-place Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, in the comedy category. That was the Kansas delegation’s only medal finish (though former Wichitan Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was named third “meanest” senator).
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Yeah he’s funny alright- like how he keeps selling out the Kansas people and the American people for his defense of Bush policies- yeah hysterical!
Even though I am a supporter of Senator Pat Roberts over his opponent, Jim Slattery, some of Senator Roberts’ mirth and hilarity needs to travel to the hinterlands of Main Street
Kansas.
I suspect most Kansans have an image of a stern and serious Senator Roberts which this former newspaper man is on serious national security matters.
Perhaps his easy jocularity did emerge in yesterday’s debate on the Farm Bureau stage at the Hutchinson State Fair. Unfortunately the steady drizzle yesterday morning kept me at the breakfast restaurant too long to get to attend the debate.
Yeah…
Ol’ Pat can play the Aw-Shucks country boy routine worthy of a warm-up act in Branson.
And that’s what Kansans get for the price of a United States Senator.
Fair trade, I guess, if you don’t give a damn about public policy.
I suspect the “Washingtonian” magazine determined Pat Roberts to be the funniest Senator even before he opens his mouth. His career is a joke. His service to the people of Kansas is a joke.
So he can tell a joke.
Big deal.
I found Robert’s intelligence report on Iraq pretty funny. He and his fellow Republicans must be getting a good laugh at the war crimes they got away with and the million people who died so KBR could get contracts to use slave labor and hire hookers (when they weren’t raping American women).
Duh Libs need to lighten up. Can’t even appreciate good humor, sad.
I saw my old Oklahoma acquaintance on one of the lists as well, Tom Coburn. Now’s there’s a salty cracker. Interesting fellow, but quite intense on the most common subjects.
Coburn is one of those people who you talk with, then you step back and say, “Well, okay Tom” – step back and hurriedly find the exit to the room. :D
Liberals on this Blog do Republicans a great favor.
We do not have to call them humorless, or radical, it comes through loud and clear.
I watched the debate at the State fair and I found it funny how Robertson defended himself on the issue of the Intel and his committee. He stated that Slattery would not even know that the Intel was faulty and bad if Robertson had not released the report saying it was faulty and bad!
Con humor? It is difficult for me to grasp. Cons take pleasure and mirth in human suffering and pain.
Poor dimos are not able to find humor anywhere. heh,heh,heh,
On the other hand it is sad to think how miserable they must be.
Oh on the contrary there sunflower.
It’s just that the things you cons find funny, aren’t funny.
As to humor? We’ve had several in person WE Blog meetups. No names named here but with rare exception, the cons are not interesting or humorous folk to be around.
The one meetup we had with no cons? Now THAT was a blast!
Roberts is a Joke!
We need a serious Senator that put State and Country before party.
Roberts will be painting himself as a Change Agent! I bet his voting with bush percentage is even higher than Mccains 95%.
Roberts did make the Senate Intelligence Committee the laughingstock of America. Slattery needs to hammer him on the Plame cover up. Roberts was bush’s damage control.
When’s he going to take off the clown nose?
Guys –
If you think the moonbats here are humorless, nasty, and self-absorbed, well . . . they really aren’t. At least not always. It just so often seems like it.
Face to face, most folks on either side of the aisle are engaging, intelligent, and enjoyable to be around, JR’s usual disagreeable sourpuss notwithstanding.
Official Washington has a fine tradition of leaving their political differences at the door, and socializing after hours. This thread is an example of that; thankfully, our elected representatives usually recognize that the things that bind us together as Americans are far more, and far more important, than the things that separate us as Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives.
Another meet-up would be a good thing, I think. Perhaps at a wateringhole, rather than at the paper. And no, JR, I’m not interested in just meeting one “side” or the other. If you want to surround yourself with a room full of sycophants, you’re welcome to do so, but I’ll pass. Unlike much of the left, I have no fear of persons I disagree with, nor do I want to shut them up.
What about it, then? Any interest? Is there a day that would work well for many/most of us?
The OK Corral would be a great meet-up place.
Who needs a clown for a senator? The man is creepy and really not very honest. Lives in Dodge City? He is from the north east of Kansas which has never thought of the rest of Kansas as anything but an opportunity to bilk. How long is he going to keep up that lie? Looks after our interest? Another lie.