Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, the Tea Party-backed candidate running to unseat Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) next year, compared welfare recipients to raccoons and took a shot at the Environmental Protection Agency in a recent speech.
In the undated video, shot by the liberal group American Bridge 21st Century, Bruning tells the story of a local construction project that was halted so as not to harm an endangered species of beetle.
"So the biologist has to go out there, and he sets these traps," Bruning tells his audience. "They put a rat carcass in the bottom, and the beetles crawl up and they fall into the bottom of it. And they put all these buckets up and down the side of the road and they capture all the Burying Beetles. The biologist goes out in the morning, grabs the beetles, and they take them two miles down and they gently let the beetles out. So that the beetles will survive."
There's a problem with this plan that "the biologist or EPA or whoever it is" concocted, Bruning says.
"The raccoons figure out the beetles are in the bucket," Bruning says. "And it's like grapes in a jar. The raccoons, they're not stupid, they're going to do the easy way if we make it easy for them -- just like welfare recipients all across America. If we don't send them to work, they're going to take the easy way out."
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