Hoystory endorses
For the June 6 Special Election for California's 50th Congressional District (disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old seat), Hoystory reluctantly endorses Democrat Francine Busby.
Today was the final straw. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's outrage at the FBI search of Rep. William Jefferson's office wasn't bad enough, but now President Bush has ordered all documents seized from the office sealed. These idiots in Washington don't get it! Jefferson was caught on tape taking $100,000 in cash from a FBI informant! They didn't have that kind of evidence in the Cunningham case! If it were you or I, we'd already be cooling our heels in the big house!
Of course, the Democrats aren't any better. Rep. Nancy Pelosi kindly asked Rep. Jefferson to resign his seat on the House Ways and Means Committee. He told her to pound sand.
I'll say this again: Jefferson was caught on tape taking $100,000 in cash from a FBI informant! What does Jefferson have to do to get Pelosi call for his resignation from the House? Get caught on tape murdering someone? Support the Bush tax cuts? Support the war in Iraq? Where's the line?
Why am I endorsing Busby in the special election? Two reasons: First, on the issue of abortion, there's little difference between Busby and Republican Brian Bilbray. Busby's for abortion-on-demand and Bilbray's for abortion-on-demand-except-for- juveniles-who-have-to-notify-their-parents.
Second, a Busby win would only ensure her tenure in office until January while Republicans would still control the House.
For the June 6 Primary for the full two-year term, Hoystory is endorsing Bill Hauf. Why Bill Hauf? Practical reasons. He's wealthy, so he's unlikely to be bribed. Second, he's not Brian Bilbray. Third, he appears to be the only one willing to spend money to oust Bilbray in the GOP primary.
Honestly, I never thought I'd endorse a liberal, abortion-rights-absolutist who has supported drastically higher gas taxes, but the GOP needs to get it through their thick heads that the garbage that's been going on in Washington is unacceptable. These earmarks are unacceptable. This insane defense of a pretty obviously corrupt poltician is unacceptable. The Senate immigration bill is unacceptable.(Seriously, we have to consult Mexico before we build any wall in along the border -- are they insane?)
Yes, I know that the Democrats are worse, which is why I'll be endorsing whoever the Republican nominee is in the general election in November -- even if it's Bilbray. However, I think the last, best tool to shock the GOP into sanity before November is for Busby to win a solidly Republican district that in ordinarly times she doesn't have a prayer to take.
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Don't underestimate the Republicans potential to misread any such message, and see it as a sign that they need to be even more conciliatory, moderate, and spineless. I have been actively involved in politics for nearly 25 years. If I had known that all the effort, time, sweat, and money that I have expended in that time to achieve a Conservative Majority would have resulted in the current Republican Leadership, I think I might have skipped the whole thing. As a political realist, I understand the occasional necessity of compromise, and that legislating and leadership usually means that few of us are completely satisfied with the end result, but this group just befuddles me in its decision-making.
Matt, I'm beginning to think that DOJ may have worked with the White House staff to time this apparently unprecedented raid to help "concentrate the mind" of the House to pass the immigration bill Bush requested. The ABC News report on Hastert, and Hastert's WGN radio response, have pretty much confirmed this for me. Leadership abhorrs a vacuum, and Bush is exploiting this vacuum in the House for all its worth.
Mr. Hoy,
I am a Republican since 1986, and have refused to send the RNC any more money this year, no matter how many invites come in my mail.
I am disgusted - in short, up to here (hand to eyebrow) with the bullshit being done by the Republicans in Washington. I sent a letter to my congressman on the immigration issue (here in South Florida it is an unmitigated disaster), and he has yet to even respond. So, I sent him a nice response: no more votes for you. Suffer.
I really mean it - maybe when the GOP loses seats in the House, and in the Senate, and maybe even loses control of one or more houses in November, and this country gets tax raises and impeachment hearings, maybe someone will wake up. Because right now I am fed up. With a capital "F."
Simon Lazarus
[...] It looks like that may be what an endorsement from Hoystory.com can do to a candidate in a neck-and-neck race. Last month, in a fit of righteous anger at the complete and total idiocy of the Republicans in Washington, I suggested people cast their votes for Democrat Francine Busby in tomorrow’s special election to serve the last six months of Randy “Dirty Duke” Cunningham’s term. [...]