Tancredo Should Try a Hookah

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Mn) has, in the words of the Washington Post “tattled” on Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Co) for the legal act of smoking a cigar in his office. The “tattling” involved calling the Capital Police because Tancredo was smoking in his office next door to Ellison. Ellison’s press secretary Rick Jauert placed the complaint and told the Hill that “I called because the smoke was coming through the walls”. The smoke was "coming through the walls”? On Feb 7 Tancredo was preparing for a trip to Mississippi and relaxing with a cigar in his office, an office with three air purifiers. Not only is Ellison a freshman legislator but he is the first Muslim in Congress and he is former member of the cult group the Nation of Islam. Here in Chicago local Arab themed restaurants are doing quite well serving their customers tobacco to be smoked in a traditional hookah; maybe Rep. Tancredo should try one of those in order to soothe his neighbor. Maybe Ellison should try Al Gore’s idea of blaming cigarette smoking for causing global warming, although I doubt that Tancredo would be moved.

Hat Tip: Dr. Sanity and her Carnival of Insanities.