Nebraska Senate Candidate John Bruning Says Welfare Recipients Like Raccoons
In a recent speech, Nebraska Attorney General and 2012 GOP Senatorial candidate John Bruning drew an interesting analogy. With great fanfare, he compared welfare recipients to…ravenous raccoons.
In a video that was shot by a liberal group called the American Bridge 21st Century, the politician can be seen making the curious connection. In the clip, Bruning tells the audience a story about a local construction project that was stopped in its tracks so that it wouldn’t harm endangered species. TPM has more:
…Bruning makes the comparison as part of an elaborate metaphor originally focused on environmental regulations. He describes a requirement that workers at a construction project gather up endangered beetles by luring them into a bucket with a dead rat in order to release them elsewhere. But the plan is thwarted when hungry raccoons then eat them straight out of the rat-infested bucket. Which, according to Bruning, is a perfect image to illustrate how welfare recipients receive their benefits.
The analogy is astonishing both for its stupidity as well as the perfidy of comparing humans to animals. But this comment from MOMROOTS is the topper:
Jon Bruning is running against Ben ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ Nelson. Without Nelson caving, we would not have ObamaCare. As a NE Mom — I will be working hard for Jon Bruning and donating to his campaig. You should hear the misleading/false ads Nelson already has on the air here in NE in an attempt to scare seniors. Makes me sick… But in NE we say ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’ We WON’T be folled by ‘Slick Benny’ again!
Ah, Nebraska. As put so well by Gary Larson in a Far Side cartoon - same planet, different worlds.
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