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Conrad Burns Keeps Stepping In It

“I can self-destruct in one sentence. Sometimes in one word.� Republican Senator Conrad Burns

From last night’s Associated Press wire:

Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, who has gotten into hot water before for comments seen as disparaging various groups, joshingly remarked Thursday on the number of Italian-Americans at the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Montana senator, facing a tough re-election fight against Democrat Jon Tester, was heading an aviation subcommittee hearing of the Commerce Committee when two FAA officials, Michael Cirillo and Nicholas Sabatini, introduced themselves as witnesses.

“I’m wondering if that’s all they’re hiring,” Burns said of the federal agency.

Previous self-destruct comments:

The United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.”

He drew criticism in June for calling his house painter a “nice little Guatemalan man.”

Burns also had to apologize after confronting members of a firefighting team at the Billings, Mont., airport and telling them they had done a “piss-poor job,”