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Just have to add this about Diane Benson's opponent, *Don Young*, the Chair of the House Transportation Committee and a 33-year incumbent, who first got elected when Nick Begich, Alaska's Democratic congressman in 1972, was killed in a plane crash two weeks before the election, along with visiting Speaker of the House, Hale Boggs, (Lindsay's husband and Cokie Roberts father).
........with your help, Young is GOING DOWN! DIANE's numbers are screaming up for a photo finish November 7th!
(Thanks go to Alaskan Debra DeLong for this tip!)
You gotta' see the original RadarOnline to enjoy it>>: Link
Don't forget to DONATE TO DIANE BENSON today!: Link
Please Send //cut-and-paste to your friends around the nation. **Don Gray **
Fairbanks, AK
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POLITICS ? Or Reality Humor?
AMERICA'S DUMBEST CONGRESSMEN
Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
By Holly Martins
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES The 109th Congress busy doing nothing
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as two centuries ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.
Despite a notoriously compliant president and Republican majorities in both houses, they've spent over 600 days in session without conducting a shred of productive business, which is not to say they've just sat around. As the war in Iraq raged out of control, they futilely postured over an unconstitutional flag-burning amendment that was clearly destined to go up in flames. They rallied around the brain-dead Terry Schiavo after the Senate majority leader, watching her on television, claimed to detect signs of life. And their hijinks culminated this month with l'affaire Mark Foley, which raised the question of just who a guy needs to blow on the Hill to get the attention of the brain-dead House leadership.
But in a notably dumb year, perhaps the dumbest move came from Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, who sponsored a bill seeking $20 million in taxpayer money for a party to celebrate America's victory in Iraq. Not long ago such flagrant obtuseness might have ensured the senator a place on our annual list of America's Dumbest Congressmen. Alas, given this year's stiff competition, he didn't even make runner-up.
...[Skipping ahead to # 2]...
PORKY PIG Rep. Donald Young likes to make you squeal
2. Representative Donald Young (R-AK)
The scene: Fairbanks, Alaska, 1994. Congressman Don Young, already in office for 20 years, is on the stump preaching the virtues of Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution to a group of high school students. Just look at all the wasteful things the federal government does with taxpayers' money, he tells them. The National Endowment for the Arts, for example, funds art involving "people doing offensive things ... things that are absolutely ridiculous." One student asks, "Like what?"
"Buttfucking," replies the great scourge of obscenity and instructor of youth.
Young's performance remains a classic in the annals of congressional idiocy, offering that rare, supremely unselfconscious moment in which one of our nation's legislative solons lets his addled mind graze freely. But the real irony of this legendary gaffe is that the congressman lecturing on government waste was the very same man who, years later, would be responsible for Alaska's fabled "Bridge to Nowhere," a $233 million project constructed entirely of pork. And it's the same man who, when asked about his state's outrageous $941 million transportation bill, boasted "I stuffed it like a turkey," before adding that detractors of the bridge�"equal in length to the Golden Gate but connecting to a town with a population of 50�"could "kiss my ear." Read More »
........with your help, Young is GOING DOWN! DIANE's numbers are screaming up for a photo finish November 7th!
(Thanks go to Alaskan Debra DeLong for this tip!)
You gotta' see the original RadarOnline to enjoy it>>: Link
Don't forget to DONATE TO DIANE BENSON today!: Link
Please Send //cut-and-paste to your friends around the nation. **Don Gray **
Fairbanks, AK
==================
POLITICS ? Or Reality Humor?
AMERICA'S DUMBEST CONGRESSMEN
Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
By Holly Martins
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES The 109th Congress busy doing nothing
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as two centuries ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.
Despite a notoriously compliant president and Republican majorities in both houses, they've spent over 600 days in session without conducting a shred of productive business, which is not to say they've just sat around. As the war in Iraq raged out of control, they futilely postured over an unconstitutional flag-burning amendment that was clearly destined to go up in flames. They rallied around the brain-dead Terry Schiavo after the Senate majority leader, watching her on television, claimed to detect signs of life. And their hijinks culminated this month with l'affaire Mark Foley, which raised the question of just who a guy needs to blow on the Hill to get the attention of the brain-dead House leadership.
But in a notably dumb year, perhaps the dumbest move came from Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, who sponsored a bill seeking $20 million in taxpayer money for a party to celebrate America's victory in Iraq. Not long ago such flagrant obtuseness might have ensured the senator a place on our annual list of America's Dumbest Congressmen. Alas, given this year's stiff competition, he didn't even make runner-up.
...[Skipping ahead to # 2]...
PORKY PIG Rep. Donald Young likes to make you squeal
2. Representative Donald Young (R-AK)
The scene: Fairbanks, Alaska, 1994. Congressman Don Young, already in office for 20 years, is on the stump preaching the virtues of Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution to a group of high school students. Just look at all the wasteful things the federal government does with taxpayers' money, he tells them. The National Endowment for the Arts, for example, funds art involving "people doing offensive things ... things that are absolutely ridiculous." One student asks, "Like what?"
"Buttfucking," replies the great scourge of obscenity and instructor of youth.
Young's performance remains a classic in the annals of congressional idiocy, offering that rare, supremely unselfconscious moment in which one of our nation's legislative solons lets his addled mind graze freely. But the real irony of this legendary gaffe is that the congressman lecturing on government waste was the very same man who, years later, would be responsible for Alaska's fabled "Bridge to Nowhere," a $233 million project constructed entirely of pork. And it's the same man who, when asked about his state's outrageous $941 million transportation bill, boasted "I stuffed it like a turkey," before adding that detractors of the bridge�"equal in length to the Golden Gate but connecting to a town with a population of 50�"could "kiss my ear." Read More »
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