Ethics

Buttars Stripped of Commitee Assignments

By Ed Brayton

It seems that even his fellow Republicans are tiring of the rank idiocy of Chris Buttars:

The Senate reprimand came after Buttars said to a documentary filmmaker that homosexuals were the "greatest threat to America," compared them to radical Muslims, said they lack morals and want special rights.

"It's the beginning of the end," Buttars said. "Oh, it's worse than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide."

The outrage prompted a frank, closed-door discussion among Senate Republicans on Thursday, and Senate President Michael Waddoups said he decided to boot Buttars off of two committees -- the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee and the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee -- both of which Buttars leads.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).