Reply #26: Ellison's neither an idiot, nor a dumbass, nor a stupid asshole...

[Mister Ed]

...he's a man of remarkably keen intellect, and his credibility with his constituents in Minnesota CD 5 will remain intact.

I think you may be shooting from the hip here, and that your post may be a gut reaction to a sensationalist headline. As I pointed out in an earlier post, Ellison merely said that the Bush administration has exploited 9/11 the way the Nazi party exploited the Reichstag fire. Then he went on to say he wouldn't go so far as to accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11. Pretty sensible statements, really.