Punch and Judy........ oh wait it's the Alabama Senate!!!

[TexKan]

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_...?storyid=98229

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Simmering tensions in the Alabama Senate boiled over Thursday when a Republican lawmaker punched a Democratic colleague in the head before they were pulled apart.

Republican Sen. Charles Bishop claimed that Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron called him a "son of a (expletive)."

"I responded to his comment with my right hand," Bishop said.

Alabama Public Television tape captured the punch.

Barron refused to comment and went into a closed-door meeting with other Democrats. Sen. Vivian Figures went into the meeting carrying first aid supplies, but she said he was not hurt.

Bishop said he regretted throwing the punch because "that's not the way grown men solve their problems," but added that he would not immediately apologize to Barron.

The fight came on the final day of the 2007 regular session of the Legislature. Republicans and a few Democrats have protested all session the Democratic majority's Senate rules, saying they were unfair. They want to bring up an election reform bill.( I believe the same complaints have been rumbling around the new US congress)

The Senate had just taken a recess Thursday afternoon when Bishop approached the chair where Barron was sitting. Moments later security officers and others rushed to separate the two senators.

[notyoubob]

I wish they would have settled their dispute like real Americans did in years past, when we were civilized — with a dual!

[Highwayman]

Alabama Public Television tape captured the punch.

YouTube Video

[TexKan]

I think it's funny that the besst insult word he could come up with was SOB................ man he needs to get out on the streets more!............ That was a lame punch as well....... he fight's like a girl!

[Made in the USA]

Send them both to Iraq!

[jeezeweeze]