This morning I thought I might write about the oil stain on my garage floor. Or, perhaps, the blue fuzzy lint I cleaned out of my navel this morning. But I was just a little too lazy to write on a topic of such irrelevance.
Besides, Alicia Mundy beat me to it this morning. In her Letter from Washington column in the Seattle Times, Alicia writes about Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA-8)…and his utter irrelevance:
The annual power rankings from Congress.org have dropped Reichert, now a sophomore Republican, from 168th among 439 members to 419th. That puts him lower than emissaries from the District of Columbia (100), Guam (177) and Puerto Rico (377), none of whom represent a state or have actual voting rights in the House.
Reichert ranks lower than most Republicans, and every Democrat except Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA-2), who has been marginalized ever since the FBI filmed him taking bribes.
In short, Reichert has no recent accomplishments (well…he did successfully pretend to get a school bus driver fired). Furthermore he has shown no capacity to adapt—to find some kind of functional niche—in a House controlled by Democrats.
“But…but…but, what do you expect, Reichert is only a sophomore!” Sophomore, indeed…but, Reichert ranks 38th out of the 41 Representatives in his class of 2004.
So I guess Ms. Mundy was having one of those “I think I’ll write about something completely irrelevant” days, and she reported irrelevant old news about Washington’s 8th Congressional District’s irrelevant Representative.
If Ms. Mundy had been in the mood for a little more relevancy, she might have written about, say, sophomore Rep. McMorris Rogers (R-WA-5), with a ranking of 231 of 439, or 12th of 41 in the class of 2004 (and she spent the session pregnant until giving birth last month and missed much of May as a consequence).
Ms. Mundy could have done that…but, then again, McMorris Rogers doesn’t have that head of rich, silvery hair, bulging biceps, and those washboard abs….
Life’s funny little quirks – Get drunk and then get in a car and kill someone, and this is called an accident. Grow up as a gay person and this is called a decision.
Reichert has already been useless. What is new Goldy?
Check out the link of the prosecution of Alabama’s ex-Governor to Karl Rove, and the GOP Justice Department. Another case of prosecuting Democrats for political gain.
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Roger Rabbit says:
@9 George Bush didn’t beat anyway. He never won an honest election in his life.
So it never stopped us democrats. We steal elections all the time.
What do you expect from a guy who took 25 years to catch the nation’s most prolific serial killer? Reichert makes Leslie Nielsen look serious!
@3 Why do you wingnuts always impersonate Democrats? Why not impersonate a Republican once in a while? Whatsamatter, don’t want anyone to know you’re a REPUBLICAN?!!! Is your party’s tarnished brand name gettin’ ya down?!
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Why isn’t McMorris staying home to raise her kid — like Darcy? Darcy = good mom, McMorris = bad mom.
Maybe Janet Stupid can tell us why McMorris didn’t quit Congress to raise her kid … ?
Bush can finally point to an accomplishment:
“Canada dollar getting closer to ours
“By Drew DeSilver
“Seattle Times business reporter
“The Canadian dollar breached 94 U.S. cents for the first time in 30 years Friday, and analysts speculate it will be worth as much as the struggling U.S. greenback by year’s end.”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete article and/or copyright info, see http://tinyurl.com/37vw8h
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Waytago, Dingbats! Some “accomplishment”.
Does Wal-Mart sell Chinese kidneys?
At the rate Bush and the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES are raising living standards for average American families, we’ll soon catch up with Argentina!
HAD ENOUGH? Here’s a man with a plan:
“Packed house cheers Obama as he talks of transforming U.S.
“By David Postman
“Seattle Times chief political reporter
“Sen. Barack Obama appeared in Seattle on Friday to recruit thousands of … supporters to something … bigger than his campaign for president.
He compared his campaign to the civil-rights movement, saying the same sense of purpose that led Americans to join with Southern blacks in the 1960s is how America battled its biggest problems, from abolishing slavery to ending the Vietnam War. ‘That is how … we are going to transform this country of ours.'”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete article and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/28xkv5
The Party of NO! reacted in predictable fashion to Obama’s promise to enact universal health care by the end of his first term:
“Even before Obama spoke, state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser issued a statement criticizing Obama’s health-care plan. … Obama said it would be financed in part by repealing some of President Bush’s tax cuts. ‘It’s nothing but the same old tax-and-spend politics we’ve seen from liberal presidential candidates for decades,’ Esser’s statement said.”
GOP = the Party of NO!
NO health care
NO jobs
NO education
NO mass transit
NO fair play
To a Republican, owning another yacht or vacation home is more important than whether sick kids get kidney transplants.
Hey Pope-A-Dope! Here’s a job opening you may be interested in. http://tinyurl.com/yt79h3
I’m disinclined to be too hard on McMorris-Rogers. Until this week I’d been checking the “How Your Lawmaker Voted” section in the Sunday paper and cluck-clucking about seeing “McMorris-Rogers-not voting” over and over again. Now it turns out that after a difficult pregnancy, her son has Down’s syndrome.
ArtFart @ 15,
I believe she had planned on a one month absence after her son was born prematurly. Subsequently he had surgery for an obstructed colon. And not the Down’s syndrome diagnosis.
In any case, if anything the post was complementary toward, rather than hard on, McMorris.
You know what would be really sad. To find out that embrionic stem cell research may cure downs syndrome. We could see if McMorris can vote against federal funding of embrionic stem cell research to impress the talibangelicals then.
To be a Republicon is to be a hypocrite.
Remember:
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15, 16, 17 – All of this is sad, and I have nothing against McMorris except being a Republican, but where are all the righty hypocrites who said Darcy should be a stay-at-home mom? They’re being awfully quiet about McMorris. Looks like more GOP “do as I say, not as I do” hypocrisy on the trolls’ part.
Reichert is so irrelevant that this thread doesn’t have any comments about him.