Rewarding Bad Behavior

As any parent knows, you're not supposed to reward bad behavior. But it seems the House Dems did just that by promising Jim Bunning votes on his pet bills so that he'd ease off on his campaign to shut down Washington.

The good part? Bunning's bills are doomed to failure as his lunatic ideas are almost as roundly despised by Republicans as they are by Democrats.

But how pathetic is it that legislators have to jump through hoops like this and use cod child psychology to get one insane old f*ck to comply with basic procedure? Why is no-one taking the logical route and pushing for Bunning to be dumped instead as he's proven himself to be incompetent and in contempt of the body in which he was elected to serve?

It's an oft-said thing, at least for me, but what does a pol have to do to get fired around here anyway? The idiot man-children in DC get to do stuff on a daily basis that would have you sent packing from almost any other job in America. Why???