A politician a jerk? Say it ain't so!

Ok... so firefighters from a state that doesn't even come close to touching the one you represent come to help out a fire.

Do you, as a member of the U.S. Senate, thank them?

Not if you're Conrad Burns.

Apparently, Mr. Burns, with all The Simpsons puns intended, believes these firefighters from Virginia are there to rip the people of the great state of Montana off and are lazy, carpetbagging idiots.

Read this and explain to me how this man became a senator.

And then check how his staff acts...

A member of the Daily Press Editorial Board contacted Burns' Washington office to check the story and to see if the senator had any more to say on the subject.

The young man (very young, we surmise) who answered the phone responded with language that would make a sailor, maybe even Burns himself, blush. Imagine a "South Park" tirade in full force, laced with assorted colorful obscenities, and you get the idea.

"And you can tell Sen. George Allen of Virginia to [vulgarity deleted]," said Burns' spokesman.

It took close to 10 minutes to finally convince the gentleman in Burns' office that, no, the caller was not his chum in Allen's office, but in fact a representative of a Virginia newspaper.

When I see stuff like this, it reminds me the same people who vote for these chuckleheads have children who they get jobs in Sen. Chucklehead's office so their kid who majored in beer drinking with a minor in keg stands can get a job and cuss out reporters.

Makes you want term limits mandated NOW!