Who is the most dangerous elected person in DC to never hold national office?

[Stinky The Clown]

This would include all of Congress as candidates.

Darrell Issa comes up for me.

So does Tex Sensenbrenner

Add your picks to the list . . . . .

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Being from Wisconsin

I'll toss out the name of Joe McCarthy

[Snarkoleptic]

2. Cantor gets my vote for the his unAmerican obstruction during a national crisis.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Not enough coffee....Elected, but not national office? What

do you consider a national office?

[ellenfl]

5. any office that requires the entire country to vote . . . prez & vice prez.

congress critters and senators only get their state's citizen's votes. personally, i'd like to see the prez and veep elected separately.

ellen fl

[Astazia]

6. Ditto...splain please confuzzled...

No comprende...isn't MoC a national office? More java please

[stuckinodi]

4. Newt. n/t

[CanonRay]

7. Dick Cheyney, hands down for me

Just ahead of Joe McCarthy

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Vice President isn't national office?

[CanonRay]

10. I hadn't had my coffee...I thought it said "ever", not "never"

Maybe I'll go back to bed...

[MadrasT]

11. I thought the same thing, and had the same answer.

More coffee required for me too.

[madokie]

8. To me I would have to say Reagan

He broke the union, he raised taxes and user fees for the common person. Our wages has stagnated since Jan.'81, in fact in a lot of cases they've gone down. He raised the level of discourse to the point where it was easy for the bushes to divide our country even more along the lines of race and class.
Yes, to me this is an easy pick.

[Greybnk48]

19. I agree with madokie

Ronald Reagan started this downward cycle for the middle class and they have lionized him. One bright spot that I see is that the sparkle for Ronnie is beginning to fade, IMO.

[onenote]

12. Too many choices

But I do have a question: Is there a story behind calling Sensenbrenner "Tex"?

[Stinky The Clown]

15. His family fortune is from his great-grandfather's invention of Kotex.

He totally HATES being called Tex.

So I call him Tex.




From his wiki page:

Sensenbrenner has a net worth of about $11.6 million.[30] His net worth in 2010 was $9.9 million. [31] He is an heir to the Kimberly-Clark family fortune,[32] but no longer owns any Kimberly-Clark stock.[31] His great-grandfather invented Kotex napkins and served as Kimberly-Clark's second president but he has never served on the board or been directly involved with the company.[31] He has put his money into stocks, as detailed in the Congressional Record.[6] Sensenbrenner has also won lottery prizes three times, the largest, $250,000, in 1998. [33][30]

[Greybnk48]

20. Old Tex may be riding off into the sunset soon.

Two weeks ago he tripped while leaving a stage outside of Milwaukee(karma) and broke his hip AND arm at the elbow (or else his hip broke and he fell). He missed the convention.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. He also has early stage prostate cancer

I wish him what he would wish me were I in his shoes.

[Greybnk48]

22. No kidding.

What a nasty old bastard he is. I didn't know about the prostate cancer. The hate must be turning back in on him. He's awful.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Not based in DC, but Jeb Bush is the first person who comes to mind.

He was Daddy's favorite, and had he won the Florida governor's race in 1994, you can bet your top dollar he would have been the Bush running in 2000 and not Dubya.

And let me tell you--as a Florida resident--he was and still is bad news. Do you think that having an idiotic Bush brother as President did serious damage to the country? Just imagine the damage a thinking man's Bush brother could have done.

[1-Old-Man]

14. Sarah Palin never won national office but can be found in DC

What do you mean that a Congressman did not win a National Office? Certainly a seat in the House of Representatives is a national office.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. No it isn't. A congressional seat is the result of a local election

[1-Old-Man]

18. I would think a local election is one for a seat not mentioned in the Constitution

So you're saying a member of the House of Representatives is not resultant of a national election, what about a Senate seat? It seems to me that both being Constitutionally instituted offices they both rise to National in scale. By comparison your County Commission or city Mayor or state Governor hold no Constitutional authority at all and so are not National offices.

[WeekendWarrior]

17. Grover Norquist nt