Why, might you ask, am I offering the musty end of Donkey's unders to this freshman United States Congressman? Read on...
I have had enough of "The Smirk." You know the one I mean. It's the one plastered on Commander Cuckoo's face every time he gives a speech on Sean Hannity or to some adoring (and, recently, dwindling) crowd of NeoCons. And it's the one on freshman Congressman Dave Reichert's face in the most recent vile, degrading television ad to smear our airwaves, as reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/...
Reichert has voted 90% of the time to support the following hurtful, hateful, disastrous policies of Commander Cuckoo's first six years as president:
* misleading us into war,
* bungling the job when we got there,
* taking away our civil liberties,
* indefinitely detaining thousands of people without any legal recourse,
* spawning the birth of thousands of new terrorists who hate us,
* spying on civilians,
* engaging and nurturing the illegal lobbying culture,
* giving tax breaks to the rich,
* alienating the United States from its allies,
* provoking unfriendly nations into accelerating their plans for nuclear (not "nukular" you dumbass) armament,
* ignoring the victims of a devastating hurricane,
* ensuring billion-dollar contracts for his military industrial, war profiteer cronies,
* smothering alternative energy development and instead securing billion-dollar subsidies to benefit his oil industry cronies,
* ignoring global warming,
* nominating an incompetent but religious woman for supreme court justice to pander to the religious right, but with no intention whatsoever of her being confirmed,
* rejecting live-saving stem cell research efforts,
* for God's sake, do I even NEED to go on??
The voters of Washington State's 8th Congressional District have an opportunity this Tuesday to elect Darcy Burner and to reject the Reichert and the GOP's failed policies.
In the hateful television ad now running in my state, a ditzy blonde shows up for a job interview but is unable to list any qualifications or give coherent answers and is sent packing. Waiting in the wings, with that smirk, is Dave Reichert. He knows there are plenty of people out there who buy into the white-male-dominant outlook on life and culture. As columnist Joel Connelly quoted from a prominent Democratic fundraiser:
"Every woman who works in this country understands that smirk: It's a sense of entitlement. It says, 'Get out of my way,'" said Ellen Malcolm of EMILY's List, which raises seed money for Democratic House candidates.
And yet, just a few years ago, Reichert claimed to want to "run a clean campaign" and said "the only way for [negative campaigning] to stop is someone has to stand up and say it's wrong."
Hey, Reichert: Eat my shorts, you hypocrite! I hope every voter in WA-08 is as fired up as I am to vote your smug, pompous ass out of office this Tuesday, and replace you with a smart, compassionate congresswoman -- Darcy Burner.
Thanks for listening to my first diary.
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