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Appears we have a NOVA snob in our midst.

clitteigh wrote:
> Macaca, an UNWAVERING lapdog of  your White House WAR CRIMINAL, has
> scored no - ZERO - ZILCH - significant accomplishments after SIX YEARS
> as Virginia's shameful contribution to the United States Senate, a once
> respected body of lawmakers.
>
> Unless you count Macaca's latest "me-me-me" lawless attempt to hide
> $1.1 million in personal stock options from Congress!   Yeah, that's
> Macaca!
>
> Unfortunately, polls still show Macaca in a neck-and-neck battle with
> Democratic candidate Jim Webb - but only if you count Macaca's
> benighted, fundamentalist, semi-hillbilly, stuck-in-the-19th-century,
> lynch-happy supporters, who seem to think a vote for Macaca is also a
> vote for his late father, the Washinton Redkins head coach of the same
> name.
>
> There's a lot of stupidity in Southside Virginia!
>
> Hopefully, by election day Nov. 7, Virginia's rational, educated,
> forward-looking electorate will eject Macaca and elect James Webb, who
> at least shows promise as a leader.
>
> -----------------
> "Virginia's Senate Race"
>
> "James Webb mounts an independent-minded challenge"
>
> EDITORIAL
> The Washington Post
> Wednesday, October 18, 2006; A20
>
> THE U.S. SENATE race in Virginia pits a novice politician, Democrat
> James Webb , against a much more experienced one, incumbent Republican
> George Allen, who spent much of the early fall obliterating his
> reputation for amiable charm and political deftness. As Mr. Allen has
> partially admitted, his wounds in the close race have been mostly
> self-inflicted and have left a sour taste in the mouths of many
> Virginians. Still, there is an even better reason to vote against Mr.
> Allen: Quite simply, he is a mediocre senator whose six years of
> undistinguished service do not justify rehiring.
>
> His opponent -- former Navy secretary, former assistant defense
> secretary, former Marine Corps officer and former Republican -- is
> admirably independent-minded. He was prescient in warning, back in
> 2002, that the war in Iraq risked stranding the United States in a
> long-term occupation without an exit strategy. An intelligent man with
> a record of integrity, he has resisted the packaging of political
> consultants, which can only be a good thing. Those assets, as well as
> his deep familiarity with military and national security affairs, offer
> the promise that he would make an able, if unorthodox, U.S. senator.
> And the fact that his youngest son is deployed as a marine in Iraq
> gives him a perspective that is rare in today's Congress.
>
> Mr. Webb, a fine writer, remains in many ways a political work in
> progress. His impressionistic grasp of domestic policy generally and
> his passing acquaintance with Virginia issues in particular reflect his
> meager experience in electoral politics. His diagnosis of America's
> widening disparities in wealth and income is on the mark, but his
> fuzzy-headed attacks on free trade are the wrong prescription. As a
> candidate, Mr. Webb has had a steep learning curve; to his credit, he
> has acknowledged it.
>
> Mr. Allen lacks any comparable independent-mindedness. He has spent his
> time in the Senate in lock step with the Bush administration, embracing
> tax cuts that have imperiled the nation's fiscal health; subsidies for
> oil and gas companies that hardly needed the help; prisoner detention
> policies that have undercut America's image abroad; and restrictions on
> embryonic stem cell research despite its medical potential.
>
> At the same time, Mr. Allen has accomplished little for his state's
> most dynamic region, Northern Virginia. Other Republican members of
> Virginia's congressional delegation -- Sen. John W. Warner and Reps.
> Thomas M. Davis III and Frank R. Wolf -- have played vital roles in
> advancing transit and other priorities while Mr. Allen was busy
> grooming himself for a possible 2008 presidential race.
>
> Many of the initiatives that Mr. Allen has undertaken in the Senate are
> the easy stuff -- relatively noncontroversial measures that lavish
> money and favors on his constituents. Nothing wrong with that, if it's
> part of a broader record of accomplishment. But while Mr. Allen has
> proposed some worthwhile bills -- for instance, to expand investment in
> nanotechnology and to help historically black colleges and universities
> upgrade their telecommunications infrastructure -- his legislative
> contributions have been marginal at best. He is no one's idea of a
> heavyweight in the Senate.
>
> Virginians deserve better and more enlightened representation. Mr. Webb
> offers that hope.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701477.html