Overheard in Pennsylvania:

Pat Toomey

“Well, yes, what I truly am saying is that if the court convicts you, you are guilty, and woe be unto the attorney who tries to prove otherwise because we will fuck you up, even if it involves spreading falsehoods, lies and innuendo. As if it would be the first time THAT happened.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), credited with engineering the vote torpedoing Justice Department Chief of Civil Rights Division nominee Debo Adegbile because Adegbile had participated peripherally in the effort to overturn the death penalty sentence handed down to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. The effort was successful and the defendant is in jail for life without possibility of parole.

Overheard in the Senate:

Pat Toomey

“We can’t have some attorney who was on the fringes of an effort to turn a cop killer’s death sentence into life-in-prison-without-possibility-of-parole-because-of-potentially-tainted-jury-instructions become the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division! Why … that would be un-American! Who does Debo Adegbile think he is representing a convicted cop killer! Sonuvabitch! Cop-killers don’t deserve the best representation available as required under the Constitution … well, unless their white of course.”

Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pennsylvania)

Overheard in the Senate:

“Fuck you, pig. God I hate pork. Especially when it talks back.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania)

Overheard in Pennsylvania:

Pat Toomey

“No! We can’t raise the minimum wage! We need to keep these lower level people living in poverty. If people want raises, they need to work harder. It’s how the system is meant to work, goddammit.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), who has an estimated worth of $5 million and does not earn minimum wage, speaking as he carefully avoided protesters urging him to reverse his opinion.

Overheard in Pennsylvania:

“Yes, 73,300 Pennsylvanians lost extended unemployment benefits as of Dec. 28. Yes, the state’s economy lost $25.1 million in just the first week of those benefits being cut! And yes, that is a loss of $650 million over 26 weeks. And yes, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate is above the national rate. And I’ll even admit there are still three people seeking a job for every one job that opens. But, dammit, the unemployed just don’t count! They are lazy, despicable, jackals feeding out of the public trough! And we’re saving money!”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), fabulously wealthy staunch conservative who is reportedly one-half a chromosome away from riding the short bus permanently

Overheard on Sen. Pat Toomey's Cellphone:

Brian Sims

“Sen. Toomey, thank you for voting to advance ENDA out of Senate committee so that it can come to a vote on the Senate floor. I challenged you previously, so I have to thank you for supporting us.”

Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia), the first openly gay legislator to be elected to the state’s General Assembly

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Pat Toomey

“You are welcome Rep. Sims. I’ve long been a supporter of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people, you know.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania)

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Brian Sims

“Uhmm… sure. But, Sen. Toomey, you seem to be lobbying for an amendment in the law that would allow religious institutions to discriminate… do you really think that way?”

Rep. Sims

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Pat Toomey

“Well if the fundamentalists don’t want to hire carpet munchers, they should have that right. And if the Catholics don’t want to hire fudge packers, so be it. So, yes, I do believe they should be exempt. God should not have to follow federal non-discrimination laws. If HE wants to discriminate, he damn well should be allowed to do so.”

Sen. Toomey

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Brian Sims

“So let me get this straight: the organizations that spread the word of Christ, the groups that share his message of love, understanding, compassion, and acceptance should be exempt from following a federal law that would keep them from hiring or employing people on the basis of whom they sleep with, which is actually not a choice but rather a biological imperative programmed at birth and made possible by the same God about whom those churches proselytize?”

Rep. Sims

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Pat Toomey

“Uhmm… yes.”

Sen. Toomey

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Brian Sims

“Don’t you think that is maybe a little hypocritical?”

Rep. Sims

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Pat Toomey

“It ain’t all about peace, love, and understanding, Mr. Fairypants. Some of it is about hate and distrust. Remember that.”

Sen. Toomey

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Brian Sims

“Sen. Toomey, I am really glad you aren’t a gay man.”

Rep. Sims

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Pat Toomey

“What? Why not? I’m not attractive enough for you boys?”

Sen. Toomey

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Brian Sims

“How you look doesn’t matter. You’re an attractive enough man, in a kid-who-rides-the-short-bus kind of way. The fact is you’re just too fucking ignorant to be a gay man. The union would not allow you in.”

Rep. Sims

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Pat Toomey

“You have a union? Goddammit! Another fucking union to bust!”

Sen. Toomey