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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:09 PM
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Poll question: What is the political composition of your state's US Senate delegation?
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:10 PM
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1. my senators are DU swear words, McCain and Kyl
fun huh?
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RUDUing2 Donating Member (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:16 PM
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40. I will trade you..mine are Bond and Talent...
and Danforth and Ashcroft used to be...
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:11 PM
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2. What's a Senate delegation?
DC resident.
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baba Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:14 PM
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4. How does that work, anyway?
You DC residents get NO representation? I don't get it. What's up with that? How do they justify that?
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:17 PM
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8. Not a state.
No constitutional mandate for representation.

Supposedly DC wasn't intended to inhabited by anyone but gasbags on Capitol Hill and in the White House.

Someone should have told the 600,000 of us who moved in about that.
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baba Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:23 PM
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10. What about "No taxation without representation."
Do they consider the Virginia or Maryland senators and representatives to represent DC residents? How does it work? I always wondered about that....
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:32 PM
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12. Nope.
The District doesn't generate enough in taxes to pay for itself. Our government is more or less subsidized by the Feds.

Maryland and Virginia argue over who pays less for Metro, the Beltway, etc.
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baba Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:01 PM
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14. That's crazy!
It seems...unconstitutional.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:04 PM
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16. Nope.
Perfectly Constitutional. We aren't a state.
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:32 PM
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21. But you guys have the best voting record
What accounts for the overwhelming democratic constituency?
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 11:59 PM
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23. We get an up close look at what goes on here.
And it IS a city.

I'm still impressed.

We broke for Kerry 90% to 9. NINETY PERCENT!

DC delivers.

You red state people, and you know who you are, you need to start persuading your neighbors.
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theboss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:27 PM
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42. All the black people
Seriously.....
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:14 PM
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3. Inouye and Akaka
I have met them both
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:16 PM
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5. KKK n/t
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:16 PM
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6. Sigh.
Must I say their names?

Hutchinson and Cornyn, both slimeballs of the nth degree.

One of them (can't remember which) even co-sponsored the FMA. No shock there. They are hateful little turds.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:16 PM
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7. We have the ONLY repub senator on the west coast
Okay, besides Alaska.

Gordon "Pea Packer" Smith.



But we have Ron Wyden, who is an excellent Democratic senator.
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Danocrat Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:22 PM
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9. It doesn't get much worse than
DeWine & Voinovich
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:02 PM
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15. sure it does
Warner and Allen.
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angrydemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 07:50 PM
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50. Mine Is Worse
Frist and Alexander
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:30 PM
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11. I love NY
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 12:06 AM
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25. I'm a big fan of the Clintons
But that picture of Hillary gives me the willies.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 09:33 PM
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13. Two "moderate GOP" Senators
If that isn't an oxymoron then we have two of them.

Snowe and Collins. The first much better than the latter.
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:10 PM
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17. One often called a RINO and one often called a DINO
In Nebraska.
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absolutezero Donating Member (879 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:19 PM
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18. two dems
corzine and lautenberg
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:20 PM
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19. Man on Dog + Magic Bullet Anita Hill abuser
I'm proud
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 10:32 PM
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20. Clinton and Schumer . . . two Republicrats . . . n/t
.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-04 11:41 PM
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22. Burns and Baucus
A TERRIBLE Republican, and a not terribly good Democrat.
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BBG Donating Member (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 12:04 AM
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24. Patty and Maria
Dig it, two women and another in the handcount for governor. Methinks the feminine direction would benefit our society versus the patriarchal warmongering ethos.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 03:42 PM
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37. Don't mind 2 female senators at all
Just wish Maria wasn't such a neocon corporatist :(
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 12:07 AM
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26. Two of the best in the senate
Levin and Stabenaw.

They're both great.
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vanboggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:47 AM
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30. Carl & Debbie are awesome n/t
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:13 PM
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33. Hear! Hear!
They make me proud!

:toast:
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Petrushka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 01:49 AM
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27. Byrd & Rockefeller
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juslikagrzly Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:05 AM
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28. I believe OK wins hands down
in the psychotic senators category

Coburn (infamous for rampant lesbianism, death penalty for abortion doctors)
and
Inhofe (just plain crazy asshat)

Help me! I'm stuck in red hell
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TSIAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:23 AM
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29. 1 D, 1 R
Technically, Graham is still in office, so FL has two Dem senators.

Unfortunately, Mel Martinez will be joining Bill Nelson shortly in the Senate.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 03:13 AM
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31. We are the opposite here in Colorado
We now have 2 repuglicans. Thankfully as of the next session we will have Democrat Ken Salazar Replace Repuglican "turncoat" Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Sadly we retain Repuglican Bastard Wayne Allard.
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hoosierblue Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:10 PM
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32. One of the few good things I can say about Indiana....
is we have two pretty decent senators: Bayh and Lugar. Lugar is a Republican, and even though I disagree with him on so many issues, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and he actually votes his conscience. Bayh was an excellent governor, and whilst he is a watered-down liberal, he knows how to get Repubs to agree with him.
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SteveG Donating Member (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:29 PM
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34. Two Dems in DE
Biden and Carper
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:53 PM
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35. Two of the worst Rick "maniac" Santorum and Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter.
Yick.
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mantis49 Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 02:56 PM
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36. Durbin and Obama
YES!
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Fifth of Five Donating Member (241 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 03:59 PM
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38. Billy "kitty killer" Frist and Lamar! Alexander
UGH!
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angrydemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 07:54 PM
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51. LMAO
Good Description Of Frist.
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:11 PM
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39. I live in the gerrymandered state of Texas
Edited on Mon Dec-06-04 04:22 PM by BrightKnight
Our officials were appointed by Tom DeLay and the NeoCon party.
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RUDUing2 Donating Member (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:18 PM
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41. Kit "ashcroft lite" Bond and Jim "ashcroft minime" Talent..nuff said?
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:31 PM
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43. 2 Repukes
One really bad Repuke - Santorum!
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Sputnik Donating Member (347 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:33 PM
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44. Both AR senators are Dems
Edited on Mon Dec-06-04 04:35 PM by Sputnik
but lean more to the right than I would prefer.

I miss former Senator Dale Bumpers. He often tells AR audiences to whom he speaks, "Do you know why, when I served this state, you always thought I was more liberal than you? Because I was."

Yet he was re-elected over and over because Arkansans knew he stood for something, even if they didn't always agree with him.

If you love political books, you really should read Dale's book....it's a fun and worthwhile read.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375505210/qid=1102368641/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-8185522-0942435?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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...Dale Bumpers was reared during the depths of the Great Depression, in the miserably poor town of Charleston, Arkansas, population 851. He was twelve years old when he saw and heard Franklin Roosevelt, who was campaigning in the state. Afterward, his father assured young Dale that he, too, could be president.

Many years later, in 1970, after suffering financial disaster and personal tragedy, Bumpers ran for governor of Arkansas, starting out with one-percent name recognition and $50,000, most of which was borrowed from his brother and sister. He defeated arch-segregationist Orval Faubus in the primary and a Rockefeller in the general election. He served four years as governor and then twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate.....
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catbert836 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 04:35 PM
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45. Specter and Santorum
Hopefully we can knock Rick "Who cares if the Allegheny School district has to pay for my kid's education, who are living in Virginia" Santorum off in 2006.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 05:34 PM
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46. PA: Two slimy maggots.
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cyn2 Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 05:43 PM
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47. 2 Repubs from Maine--Good ones.
They are both "Moderate". Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Bush even ran a campaign against Snowe when she didn't "obey".

It was during the time after the Iraq war started. People throughout the country were dissing the French. Remember "Freedom Fries"?

Anyway, in order to pressure Snowe to comply, I think it was the tax cuts, Bush ran an ad with Snowe and Chirac on the screen together hoping to capitalize on the current xenophobia.

Upshot was, approximately 1/3 of the state of Maine is of French decent.

That was a good one. Something backfired on Rove's slimy tactics!
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Spiffarino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 05:59 PM
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48. Burr and Dole
I said two Repubs, but it's actually a D and an R. By January 2nd, there will be two Republicans unless we can get a recount in NC. That will never happen, of course, because NC laws don't make for easy recounting of the votes. No doubt this comes from our "good ol' boy" Dixiecrat past.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 06:05 PM
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49. Snowe and Collins here. Really wanted to trade Susan in for Pingree
but no dice.
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