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Toronto Ron Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:50 AM
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Poll question: Which state has the worst PAIR of Senators?
Let's hear it from DUers who live in a state with two conservative idiot Senators: Vent away!
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:51 AM
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1. I had to go with PA...
but OK runs a close second
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dbackjon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:40 AM
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68. Georgia - no doubt
Can't think of a single redeeming quality in either.
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:52 AM
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2. This VA resident nominates
Warner and Allen
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:38 PM
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39. naw
The sad thing is, they can't crack this list! Now two Allens would make the top 5 easy!

(I'm a Fairfax Co resident)
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:39 PM
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40. I have to agree.
Allen is #2 only to Santorum in senators that make me want to vomit everytime I see them.
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ObaMania Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:47 PM
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45. This VA resident concurs!
Allen makes me f'n sick. Idiot redneck Virginians only voted him in office cuz his dad was coach of the VA's beloved Redskins. When I see this asshole spreading his propagandist shit thick on the talk shows, I wanna blow my f'n TV up.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 04:41 PM
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48. I hope someday a talk show host
Edited on Fri Jul-16-04 04:50 PM by LibDemAlways
gets a clue and asks him about the good old days at PV High when his fervent racism drove him to vandalize the school with anti-white graffiti in an effort to stir up some good old fashioned hatred. Allen was way ahead of his time in terms of being a no-good, shithead, rightwing repuke.

Back in 2000 I contacted the Robb campaign plus every media outlet I could think of and gave them names of people who could corroborate this, but the whores weren't listening and Robb's people didn't follow up.

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WMliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:13 AM
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59. Allen.... reminiscing...
Remember that time when he was governor and he brought us up to #2 in the country for executions? Or the other time he privatized VDOT, so now road projects cost 3 times as much and always need to be redone as soon as their finished (see Hampton at I-64 and I-664 linkup)? Or that one time, he tried to sell William & Mary's College Woods and use the proceeds to build a prison?
I think what takes the cake is his "country look." He grew up in a mansion right on the James River in Richmond, but in the past seven years, he suddenly starts wearing cowboy boots and chews tobacco.
:puke:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:52 AM
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3. Overall, Alabama.
I'm sorely tempted to say Pennsylvania, but Shelby/Sessions in Alabama is the worst.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:42 PM
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41. Is Overall, Alabama near Slap Out?
Edited on Fri Jul-16-04 03:43 PM by trof
hee
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 10:04 PM
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55. Just over the line from Plum Nelly, GA.

On Lookout Mountain, you know, it's plum out of Tennessee and nelly out of Georgia.

:evilgrin:
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Racenut20 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:52 AM
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4. Bond/Talent Missouri by far. GA next Miller/Chamblis
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:53 AM
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5. I voted KY
but after Inhofe's "outrage over the outrage" comment, OK is a close second.
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:53 AM
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6. I Am OUTRAGED That I'm The Only One Who Chose Oklahoma
But I'm even MORE outraged by my OUTRAGE.

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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:55 AM
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9. I'm outraged by your outrage
Outrageous!
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lil-petunia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:55 AM
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10. so many choices, so few votes we can cast.
decisions, decisions.
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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:21 PM
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29. Sorry I am with you..I can't decide
I hate Inhofe, Miller, Hatch....Oh my...Can I have two choices?
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:57 AM
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11. You are no longer alone
It is clearly Oklahoma

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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:54 AM
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7. Missouri - Bond and Talent
The first is a loud and obnoxious idiot, the second is an ultra-conservative ideologue. Both are completely unrepresentative of my home state of Missouri.
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Toronto Ron Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:03 PM
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15. Why can't the Dems find someone who can be Bond this year?
Gephardt? :shrug:
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:12 PM
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27. Nancy Farmer has a decent shot
Right now, it's still less than a 50-50 chance, but it will be close.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:54 AM
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8. TX: "Box Turtle" Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson...
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 11:57 AM
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12. I agree
I have all Repug representation where I live.
If this is a representative government I feel like I'm getting screwed.
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:00 PM
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13. Are You a Box Turtle?
Because I think that's what your representative government enjoys screwing.

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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:03 PM
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17. Signs of life from Kay...
...she voted NO on that nutbag federal judge from Arkansas last week. Of course, Box Turtle Cornyn more than made up for that...
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:08 PM
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24. Yeah but she co-sponsored the FMA
She has moments of apparent lucidity (voting against loosening FCC ownership restrictions), but when all is said and done...
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:11 PM
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26. She did? I knew Cornyn did. I can't believe both of them co-sponsored...
the anti-gay amendment.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:15 PM
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28. Yep, they sure did
Sad, isn't it?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:26 PM
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33. Maybe, like a broken clock, she's right twice a day.
:D
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:11 PM
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25. Kay Bailey's an interesting if not-too-bright one
She also changed her vote on a flag issue a few years back after hearing Carol Mosley-Braun plead her case. It was over some group's use of the confederate flag as a symbol.

She winds up on her own now and then, so I'd not vote for Texas on this list.

I had a friend who told me that Kay Bailey was voted by a group of people around the senate as "Least Likely to become a Rocket Scientist."
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:07 PM
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21. That's my choice as well
Edited on Fri Jul-16-04 12:07 PM by redqueen
I'm so very embarassed by these clowns.
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TEXASYANKEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 04:45 PM
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50. I second that.
I call them both Oil Whores.
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:37 AM
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67. Yep
I wanna know why Texas isn't even on that list. Surely the box turtle man love stuff ALONE is enough to get our suckity suck suck senators on that list.

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Pabst Blue Democrat Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:02 PM
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14. KANSAS KANSAS KANSAS
Roberts and Brownback.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:08 PM
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22. Agree. Because they LOOK like normal human beings...when they
are nothing of the sort.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:03 PM
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16. Oklahoma...
Edited on Fri Jul-16-04 12:04 PM by RoyGBiv
Has to be. Inhofe by himself counts as two of the worst Senators.

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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:05 PM
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18. Gotta go with my home state: Oklahoma...
A fascist and an idiot.
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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 04:44 PM
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49. Me too
Just a total embarrassment!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:05 PM
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19. Good news here in Georgia!
We're about to replace Miller with a Real Republican.

Well...It's good news to someone.

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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:06 PM
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20. you forgot Kansas
Pat Roberts
and Sam brownnose...I mean brownback
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:08 PM
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23. Definitely Georgia because we're stuck with Zell Miller
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:22 PM
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30. MS sounds pretty bad
and Ok.

I live in Pa. Santorum is a rightwing nightmare, an embarrassment. But Specter is pro-choice and usually pretty moderate, or what passes for moderate these days.
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joanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:23 PM
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31. So hard to choose with a list like that
But went with Georgia.

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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:25 PM
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32. thanks for this poll
I will remove all of these states from my relocation consideration. BTW, from afar (a state (IL) with two good ones), I would give it to OK in a heartbeat. Inhofe is a scary dude.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:29 PM
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34. By far it has to be Georgia!
All the other ones mentioned were actually Rebubs. We here in Ga. are dishonored by a FAKE Dem! Thank Ggod Zell's not running again! I just hope we can replace him with a Dem.

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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:34 PM
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35. MO
I can't believe that MO's tandem of a-holes, Bond and Talent were overlooked!
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 12:50 PM
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36. Alaska has to be right up there. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski
Murkowski's father appointed her to the Senate and he was just named as the largest benefacter of oil industry travel and entertainment gifts. His daughter was right up there next to him and ninety percent of oil industry gifts went to Republicans but some went to a couple of Democrats. John Breaux and Tim Johnson each received about ten thousand dollars in travel and entertainment money from "Big Oil"
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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:19 PM
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37. Georgia, narrowly over PA.

GA has a faux Democrat (Miller) & a crypto-fascist (Chambliss).

PA has a total mouth-breather in Santorum, but at least Specter is pro-choice.
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Ithuilwen Donating Member (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:35 PM
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38. Even though the two ME senators are Republicans
(Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins) at least they aren't THAT insufferable. I do believe they voted against the FMA. :)
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:43 PM
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42. I have McCain/Kyl...ewwww.
hoping to get Starsky/Kyl then Starsky/Napalitano!
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:45 PM
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43. Oklahoma

No doubt about it. Inhofe is the biggest asswad that we have ever sent to DC. Shame, shame, shame.
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juslikagrzly Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 04:22 PM
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47. Agreed on that GTRMAN
but the rest of them aren't far behind (Nickles, Coburn, Humphries ad nauseum). It's embarrassing to be from this state sometimes (most of the time :-)).
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 03:46 PM
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44. I had to go with FrankenFRIST and plaid-shirt Alexander.
FrankenFRIST disgusts me every time that I see him. Alexander just pisses me off.
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 04:04 PM
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46. Shelby and Sessions have to win going away
Without looking it up, I would bet that both their voting records are 100% right wing-nut.

They have war chests out the ying yang, and no one can even begin to think about challenging them. They'll be there until they die or get big defense contractor job offers.

They're completely out of touch with average Alabamians.

They're public speaking embarrassments.
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Liberal_Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 09:43 PM
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51. Georgia, By A Wide Margin
Chickenhawk Chambliss had the nerve to question Max Cleland's patriotism and Zell Miller should be arrested for being Zell Miller.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 09:43 PM
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52. So many to choose from
It's like a Satanic candystore!
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The Blue Knight Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 09:59 PM
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53. "Zell Miller should be arrested for being Zell Miller."
That made me chuckle.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 10:03 PM
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54. Uh, TEXAS?????????
There's this Kay Baily HUTHCINSON person who mistreasts her staff, and this CORNYRN person who "defeated" a Black person. The problem is that the MAJORITY in Texas DON'T VOTE. The
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 10:07 PM
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56. Thank You
i voted other, because I agree...Texas.
Worst Senators in the country.

Cornyn and Hutchinson are both nothing but bush puppets!
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 10:08 PM
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57. Thank You
i voted other, because I agree...Texas.
Worst Senators in the country.

Cornyn and Hutchinson are both nothing but bush puppets!
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Razoor Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-16-04 10:10 PM
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58. would have to say georgia by far
cant stand miller and chambliss
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:15 AM
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60. Other!
All of the above!
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:20 AM
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61. Mississippi's -- Chester Trent Lott and Thad Cochran
Now come on folks - LOTT!

The worst thing in the senate!

Cochran is just as bad, but he is a silent evil - not a vocal.

Lott was a cheerleader in college, guess that why he is the GOP's cheerleader..
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:21 AM
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62. Santorum is the worst Senator and Specter is a worthless flip flopper
so I must choose my own state of PA. It's a great state but those two assholes have to go. The Democratic and union support of Specter really fucks things up.

please donate to Joe Hoeffel: www.hoeffelforsenate.com

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WINEWOMAN7 Donating Member (100 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:41 AM
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63. Idaho
I voted Georgia but I have to admit we here in Idaho have 2 of the worst right wingers.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 10:42 AM
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64. Arizona
McCain and Kyl. :puke: Two asshole peas in a pod.
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:01 AM
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65. You are correct sir. Another Arizonan agrees. Both pathetic.
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 11:35 AM
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66. Allard & Campbell
Wayne Allard's sponsorship of the FMA and the horrifying speech he gave on Wednesday put him right up there with Orrin Hatch in terms of out-of-control deranged scariness as far as I'm concerned. The do-nothing, party-switching Campbell voted against the FMA and may not seem like an obvious choice. You really have to meet the Frighthorse in person to understand why he's bad.
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