This week's "He said what" award goes to Rep. Max Burns -- You think it has been a bad month for Kerry. What about week and year for poor Al Gore.

In a Friday post I confessed to having had my respect of the Cottingham family lowered a bit. Upon learning that Rep. Max Burns had invented the Department of Homeland Security, I noted:

"While I have never thought that much of Rep. Burns, this new information is impressive, most impressive. Prior to going to Congress he was a college professor, and although my Dad and brother Jim were college professors, I don't know of anything either of them ever invented."

On The Georgia Gang this week Bill Shipp proclaimed Congressman Max Burns as his winner of the week for having created the Department of Homeland Security before Burns even got to Washington.

Shipp noted that truly this had to be the most impressive feat for a politician since Al Gore invented the internet.

Poor Al Gore, having to withstand public ridicule from the Dean of Georgia politics.

And talk about Mr. Shipp being insensitve. Being one-upped by Max Burns this week in the invention department is strike three for Mr. Gore.

He has yet to publicly show his face after strike one, which was endorsing Howard Dean only days before Dean crashed and burned. And then strike two came shortly thereafter as Mr. Gore had to live through the indignity of having Dean say Gore was his nemesis and the cause of his loss to Kerry.