[Jim in CT]

In the category called "you cannot make this stuff up", Senator Richard Blumenthal from CT was recently appointed to the Senate Armed Services committee.

During the campaign last November, it was revealed that on multiple occasions, Blumenthal claimed to have served in Vietnam, when in fact he had not (he was in the USMC reserves, and never went anywhere near Vietnam).

Bad enough that the brainwashed, idiotic masses in my home state elected this guy (I mean, if you would lie about THAT, what wouldn't you lie about)? But this jerk getrs appointed top the armed services committee, on which the gargantuan hero John Mccain also serves. If I was on that committee, I would start every single meeting with a declaration that Blumenthal has absolutely no business being on this committee.

Do voters literally have no standards?