Just for funsies I'd like the name and your opinion of your State's

[joemurphy]

worst Senate or House Representative. I'm compiling a private shit list of the most benighted for future reference and watching.

I'd guess Indiana's would be House Rep. John Hostettler a born-again fundie that likes to carry a gun around with him. His response to the 30,000+ Latinos who marched in Indy a few weeks ago was an angry letter to DHS demanding to know why ICE officials weren't on hand to arrest the entire lot of them.

[Richard Steele]

1. Two words: Elizabeth Dole. nm

[cali]

2. If you're looking for a name

from all 50 states, you're out of luck. I don't have a worst, Vermont is fortunate to be represented by Leahy, Jeffords and Sanders.

[bleedingheart]

4. go ahead..make me feel bad....

now I am going to go and drown my sorrows in some merlot or chardonnay...

;-)

[joemurphy]

17. If we could only all move there. Sigh.

[bleedingheart]

3. all I need to say is Santorum...

and...it looks like the Dem elite want to put very conservative, pro war Democrat Bob Casey in his place....goody for us...not..

[Lady Effingbroke]

5. Tom DeLay.

:thumbsdown:

[samdogmom]

6. James (take my gavel and go home) Sessenbrenner n/t

[Goblinmonger]

7. So many names, so little time

Sensenbrenner comes to mind early, followed by Petri. I'm probably forgetting someone in Wisconsin.

[crizzo5137]

8. I have everyone beat....

Mean Jean Schmidt!!!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeek! :puke:

[msgadget]

11. I'm so sorry!

She's ccccrazy!

[EFerrari]

12. I feel for you. I hope OH gets to vote again soon so you can

dispose of her.

[joemurphy]

56. We feel your pain. n/t

[Lady President]

9. Ohio-- Bob Ney

Mind you; there are quite a few Congress members in the running, but I'm going with the obvious-- Bob Ney.

[MuseRider]

10. It is a toss up in the senate,

Brownback and Roberts, :shrug: Both are terrible but for now I would say Roberts for holding up the investigations among other sinister and Bush** ass kissing things.

Brownback, ewwwwwwww.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Norm ("The Weasel") Coleman of Minnesota.

He is KKKarl Rove's butt boy; when KKKarl says shit Norm asks what color. Heis absolutely without principles -- he will say and do anything he thinks will further his political career. He's the scum-sucking asswad who, shortly after Paul Wellstone was killed, told a newspaper that he was "a 99% improvement over Wellstone." It is an affront to the balance of the universe that this buttwipe occupies Wellstone's senate seat. He is up for re-election in 2008, and there are a whole lot of us ready to move heaven and earth to get his sorry little behind tossed out of Paul's office and sent back to St. Paul, preferably to pick cigarette butts out of the gutters on Selby Avenue.

Did I mention that I loathe Norm Coleman?

[whoneedstickets]

19. I agree but Dayton is pretty bad too.

Our first priority should be replacing him in 2006 with a heavyweight that makes Coleman look as pathetic as he is.

[pauliedangerously]

41. Nicely put, ocelot

But I don't want that piece of shit back in MY city. I'd rather ship him down to Austin where he can suck pig guts.

[hexola]

14. PA : Congressman Billy Shuster

This guy is a pure shill - shouldn't even be in office..."inherited" his seat from his father "Bud"

Was formery a used car salesman...

My roomate in college grew up with him in Evertt, PA - always got bailed out of trouble if you were hanging with the Shusters...

[alittlelark]

15. CA - David Dreyer

[w8liftinglady]

16. john cornyn-kneeling to service *

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. You're kidding, right?

[w8liftinglady]

36. OMG-edited-time to put up the crack pipe

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. *Whew!* I was worried there for a minute...

[w8liftinglady]

40. thanks for saving my rep!

[joemurphy]

46. Ah, I thought that was a typo... :-)

[Nicole]

18. Tom Coburn Oklahoma Senator

Need I say more? :cry:

[Coyote_Bandit]

28. Tom Coburn or Jim Inhofe - what a choice n/t

[Nicole]

31. It sucks n/t

[joemurphy]

33. Coburn Tops My Neanderthal List

While representing Oklahoma's 2nd District in Congress Coburn protested NBC's airing of the historically significant movie "Schindler's List". Coburn said in airing the movie NBC had taken television "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity". He also said the broadcast should outrage parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere.

Conservative super-stars William Bennett and Jack Kemp took Coburn to task for those remarks, with Kemp calling Coburn's remarks "a huge mistake" and Bennett calling them "very unfortunate and foolish".

Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Republican Senator from New York said of Coburn:

"To equate the nudity of Holocaust victims in the concentration camps with any sexual connotation is outrageous and offensive. I'm particularly embarrassed they were made by a member of my own party."

[joemurphy]

35. Tom Coburn on gays:

“The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power … Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That’s a gay agenda.”

[nevergiveup]

20. Denny Hastert ..... Illinois

Don't get me started

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Well, since we only have ONE representative...

...that would have to be Don Young, arrogrant asshole "congressman for all Alaska." :puke: He's the one with all the dead animal heads on his Washington office wall. As for our senators, I would say that Ted Stevens probably outranks Lisa Murkowski in "worseness." Seniority.

[joemurphy]

55. Don Young's famous for the "Bridge to Nowhere"

Coming up with the $223 million in pork for a bridge larger than the Brooklyn Bridge and almost as long as the Golden Gate, to connect a town with 8,900 people to a town with 50 people

[Blue_In_AK]

65. Well, actually, that isn't quite right...

There were two bridges in that earmark. The one which was going to bear Don Young's name was a bridge from Anchorage, my home city of approximately 250,000, to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Anchorage's suburb area, which is the fastest growing region in the state. While I personally don't think the bridge is necessary, it's not a totally hare-brained scheme, since there is presently only one way out of Anchorage in that direction. (Actually, there's only one other way out of the city - one road north, one road south.)

The other bridge, the Ketchikan-Gravina bridge, is a little more "out there." That one was to connect the town of Ketchikan, about 14,000 residents, with Gravina Island, which is where their airport is located. Currently, they take a ferry.

So that's the story on the bridges to nowhere. For what it's worth, neither bridge has much support up here among the common folk, although the projects would put a lot of people to work.

[blondeatlast]

22. Arizona has some standouts, but there is a clear winner: JD Hayworth.

Need I say more?

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

23. I'd say in Illinois the winner is "Fat Denny Hastert"..

:puke: :puke:. Of course even though he is retiring this year, "Mr. Youthful Indiscretion Hypocrite Henry Hyde" runs Fat Denny a very close second...

[AlCzervik]

24. it's hard to pick just one, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, Drier.

ok how about the entire california house coalition?

[Coastie for Truth]

30. I'd have to give the nod to Pombo

He represents the southern tip of Silicon Valley (the Golf Course south of IBM)

[rustydog]

25. Doc HASTINGS, Ethics chair....Sucked it big time

[jerry611]

26. LOL...You guys think you have it bad????

I live in Katherine Harris's district.

And Sen Mel Martinez is nothing but another Bush/GOP yes-man.

[Coastie for Truth]

29. California - Richard Pombo

[peace13]

32. Dewiner in Ohio, need I say more. n/t

[Stephist]

34. This is easy

Nebraska's best... Nobody
Nebraska's worst...Everyone Else

[Media_Lies_Daily]

37. Cramer - "Blue Dog" Democrat. Just as good as a Republican.

[hatrack]

38. Christopher "Kit" Bond - (R - Jack Daniels)

His mediocrity is exceeded only by his venality.

Every time CAFE standards come up he trots out his glossy foam-core board photograph of a golf cart and shrieks that that's what the evil, evil federal government is going to force all God-fearing Americans to drive.

:puke:

[napi21]

42. Ga. Saxby Chambliss!

If Saxby wore lipstick, Shrub's.........you know what I mean!

[Nutmegger]

43. L I E B E R M A N!!!

Ugh....

:puke:

[Norwood]

44. Tom "Lets kill all the Mexicans" Tancredo

This guy is racist slime period! My apologies to slime.

[joemurphy]

54. Found this tidbit about Tancredo... I love to share things like this:

A note from a blogger on thinkprogress:

"I had a brushing acquaintance with Tancredo back in 2003 when i was living in Denver. A good friend of mine was serving as the vice-consul for the Mexican consulate in Denver. A story came out about an academically gifted high schooler, the son of undocumented aliens, who couldn’t affort to attend college. It was a nice human interest story in the Denver Post Tancredo jumped on it and tried to have the teenager and his entire family deported My friend stepped in to assist as part of his job and Tancredo proceeded to smear him and the consulate in public… Tancredo didn’t succeed and, in fact, an anonymous donor stepped forward and offered to pay the young man’s way through any college of his choice I remember thinking at the time just how astounding it was that such an bigoted asshole could be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Silly me."

[PassingFair]

45. Candice "The Armtwister" Miller of Michigan

What a *itch!

I actively hate her.

[joemurphy]

48. For those that don't understand the reference to "Armtwister"

During the 108th Congress, Miller was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for improperly attempting to influence the vote of fellow Michigan Congressman Nick Smith on the floor of the U.S. House. Smith had voted against the Republican Medicare Drug Plan for seniors and Miller made comments about Smith's son, Brad Smith -- who was running for office in Michigan -- that appeared to be "a threat of retaliation" for Nick Smith's vote against the bill. Tom Delay was censured for the same reasons.

Miller received $25,000 from House Majority Leader John Boehner's "Freedom Project" PAC.
Miller received $6,000 from GOP Whip Roy Blunt's "Rely on Your Beliefs" PAC.
$20,000 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.
$1,000 from Bob Ney, the first congressman to be implicated based on the Jack Abramoff guilty plea.
$5,000 from Randy "Duke" Cunningham's PAC.

Miller voted with President Bush 88% of the time.
Miller voted the GOP party line 94% of the time.

[PassingFair]

49. Thanks for fleshing it out for me, joe!

Her offices, and the Republican Party Offices for Macomb County are
in my "zone" this canvass.

I swear, the bottoms of my shoes stink after walking down that block!
She makes me :puke:

[Alamom]

47. Take your pick - Shelby or Sessions (Al)

Alabama Senators
Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby (R)

Originally elected to the Senate as a Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party in 1994 when it gained the majority in Congress.

Controversy surrounds Shelby's role in leaking national security secrets involving the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2004, a federal investigaton concluded that Shelby revealed classified information to the media when he was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.<1> Specifically, Shelby revealed classified information on June 19, 2002 to Carl Cameron, the chief political correspondent on Fox News.

Intercepts by the National Security Agency are among the most sensitive of classified information. Both the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI investigated the case, and a grand jury empaneled; however, as of 2005, no one has been charged with a crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shelby




Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R)


Sessions has been active in particular as an advocate for the armed services. On September 25, 2005, he spoke at a rally attended by 400 people in Washington, D.C. in favor of the war in Iraq. It was held in opposition to an anti-war protest held the day before that was attended by 100,000 people. Sessions spoke of the anti-war protestors, saying "The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world. I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions

:*

[joemurphy]

52. Jefferson Beauregard? Wow!

[ContraBass Black]

50. George Allen.

(sigh)

[Twitch14]

60. Gotta second that...

...even though I live in Tom Davis' district and therefore have a whelk's chance in a supernova of having my opinions heard.....

[Gemini Cat]

51. Indiana's Mike Pence. nt

[libnnc]

53. Dole and Burr

'Bout as useful as tits on a bull.

[CornField]

57. Iowa - Steve King

[Rowdyboy]

58. Since Trent Lott has been such a pain in the ass to Bushco, I'll go with

Chip Pickering, Representative from Laurel Mississippi, son of Judge Charles Pickering of filibuster fame, as my states worst representative.

[tishaLA]

59. CA--Duncan Hunter. But

Rohrabacher is a close second.

[johnaries]

61. I've got you all beat. Bill Catkiller Frist.

:cry:

[KitchenWitch]

62. MN - Carpetbagger Norm "I lick Bush's balls" Coleman

[MnFats]

64. Good one, KW!

Norman C...the phoniest politician I've ever met..

[MnFats]

63. Mn. State Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano/freaks about AIDS/HIV

this item appeared in "Politics in Minnesota" (by the way, the Minn. AIDS Project is the MAIN agency for care, testing, counseling and many other services regarding AIDS/HIV in the state. this guy is nuts..

Tom Emmer says "Just Say No!" to reality

Republican Tom Emmer is disgusted by the fact that an AIDS prevention program uses what he considers to be explicit language in information given to the public on how to stop the spread of AIDS. He would end all funding to the Minnesota AIDS Project, even though the website he objects to doesn't receive any state funds.

As one person on the Minnesota Politics Discussion list said, Rep. Emmer seems to be filling Arlon Lindner's shoes. AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease. In order to talk about how not to spread AIDS, it is necessary to talk about sex. In order to talk about sex, you need to use sexually explicit terms. The alternative is something I read in a Bloom County comic strip of probably twenty years ago, where the editor of the local newspaper decided to sidestep the explicitness problem by writing "If you ever do (a-word) or (c-word) be sure to always use a (c-word number two)." Not particularly effective.

Now, I don't know if Rep. Emmer never had "the talk" when he was growing up, but it sure doesn't sound like it. I, for one, do not feel like giving it to him.

[adwon]

66. Jim Bunning

Certifiable nut.

[sinkingfeeling]

67. Arkansas - Rep. John Boozman...'Christian' & votes with Bush 98%