Rowland Likens Funkhouser to Joe McCarthy

In an impressively intemperate outburst, mayoral candidate Jim Rowland, paraphrasing Joseph Welch's famed denunciation of Joe McCarthy, asked Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser, "Have you no shame?"  The dastardly deed that prompted Rowland's imprecation was--hang on here--Funkhouser's congratulating the Kansas City Chiefs for making the playoffs.  Confused?  Well, a few weeks earlier Funkhouser opposed the spending of $2 million of public money on the same sports complex that employs Rowland as its director.  Since the Chiefs play at that complex, Rowland considered it an "hypocrisy . . . that knows no boundaries" for Funk to cheer the Chiefs on.  Since nearly half of the county residents voted against public subsidies of the complex last time it was on the ballot, should they be pulling for the Ravens?  Only Jim Rowland knows.