Posted on 06/07/2007 2:40:15 PM PDT by james500
State Sen. Charles Bishop hit Sen. Lowell Barron on the floor of the Senate this afternoon.
The Senate was in recess when Bishop, a Republican from Arley, and Barron, a Democrat from Fyffe, started an animated conversation. Bishop suddenly hit Barron in the face, and Barron fell back onto a desk.
Patrick Harris, assistant secretary of the Senate, said he saw Bishop hit Barron and quickly grabbed Bishop and pulled him back.
Bishop in an interview later said Barron called him a s...o...b, so he hit Barron in the face.
"If he calls me that again, it'll happen again," Bishop said.
Barron was not immediately available for comment.
Welcome to the South! Defend yourself sir!
“If he calls me that again, it’ll happen again,” Bishop said.”
Good for him. Somebody ought to punch Murtha and Fat Teddy out. (and probably a lot more)
Absolutely moronic. The guy should be arrested.
Well, they say that a well armed society is a polite society, maybe the same can be said for a well fisted legislature...
Um...completely tongue in cheek, of course.
I don't think Taiwan has 25 million illegal aliens running around.
If this keeps up c-span may start a pay-per-view channel.
Well put sir... well put.
Not the U.S. Senate, but you may get a kick out of this anyway.
Bring back duelling bump!
Maybe he got as pissed as the rest of us are, but he was close enough to do something about it.
Meadow Muffin
When I read the title, I thought Drunk Ted was throwing a punch at somebody on the Senate Floor.
Why?
The native Taiwanese might have a different view of that.
Bullshit! It’s about time some of these “in-your-face democrats got their ass kicked! I know there’s a few I’d like to step outside with.
“I don’t think Taiwan has 25 million illegal aliens running around.”
No, just 1.3 billion Chinese ‘fellow countrymen’.
Either way, immigration policy wasn’t the reason for this assault.
Well, in my little neck of the world, we call hitting people assault. But, it doesn’t look like anyone was really hurt. I suppose this kind of thing is almost harmless in the genteel world of state senators. In the real world, when men fight, people are crippled and scarred for life. Violence isn’t the sanitized, bloodless entertainment as seen on TV.
I’m speaking from experience. Should we ever meet, you can see the scars on my cheeks, my oversized knuckles, dental appliances, etc etc. I’m damned good at violence and that led me to hate it.
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