Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I Endorse These Endorsements

Esquire has a pretty good voting guide, in case you were still undecided.
Highlights include the following...
From The Ten Worst Members of Congress:
Senator Joe Lieberman (I), Connecticut
Inherent in politics is the fact that someone always loses. Some lose gracefully, some lose poorly, and, as in the case of Joe Lieberman, some lose their minds. Since being defeated by an antiwar candidate in the Democratic primary in 2006, Lieberman (who was subsequently reelected as an Independent) has pursued his campaign of revenge against his former party, thinly disguised as an act of principle, replete with the quavering sanctimony that no country should have to put up with from anyone, much less from this small man.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R), Minnesota
One gets the impression that if, in the name of "traditional values," Bachmann could rescind the vote for women, she would. Her vacant, wild eyes recall a doomsday prophet, or one of Charlie Manson's girls. Equal parts religious hack and party hack, she's got spunk and not much else.
Rep. John Murtha (D), Pennsylvania
Murtha's principled early stand on the war must never be forgotten. But neither must his stand against his own party's ethics reforms in 2006. The reforms were, he said, "total crap." Not because they were bad public policy, mind you, but because they might rein in Murtha's breathtaking earmarks -- more than $100 million annually for his Johnstown district, the richest handout in the country. Oh, and as Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chairman, he routinely punishes other members by taking away their earmarks. Murtha's got to go.
From the 10 Best:
Senator Olympia Snowe (R), Maine
In 2006, we called Snowe "one of the real grown-ups in Congress." And she has continued to chaperone the unruly bunch during the rather dispiriting two years since. A passionate opponent of partisan bickering, she says, "People don't live by ideology alone. They live by solutions." We wholeheartedly agree. Paradoxically, she'll have an easier time of it should Democrats pick up more Senate seats.

1 comment:

Peter said...

Yes - I read the endorsements at the farm house. Unfortunately they picked the guy who is running against Nathaniel's friend Josh Zeitz in NJ.