Survey about DUers' two US senators

[Bucky]

Poll question: Survey about DUers' two US senators

Please note the use of precise terminology

Poll result (178 votes)
Both my senators suck	(65 votes, 37%)	Vote
One of my senators is okay, but the other is the ol' suckaroo	(43 votes, 24%)	Vote
One of my senators rocks nads, but the other is sorta meh	(29 votes, 16%)	Vote
Both my senators do their job pretty good in my book	(41 votes, 23%)	Vote

[tabbycat31]

1. Menendez and Lautenberg

Can't complain in my book.

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. Inhofe and Coburn

can't imagine anything worse

[CTyankee]

4. Awk, go with God my child...

[socialist_n_TN]

29. Try Corker and Alexander

Nuff said.

[mascarax]

43. ...and also with you (n/t)

[mascarax]

42. My thoughts are with you (n/t)

[Odin2005]

74. YUCK!

[CTyankee]

3. I'm in the second category with Blumenthal and Lieberman.

Thrilled with Blumenthal. Can't wait for Lieberman to just go, already...

[Exultant Democracy]

49. I'm waiting for him to start leading. He should be looking into the banks.

[pnwmom]

We are lucky in Washington to have Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

55. Patty is the real deal. Cantwell? Better than brand X. n/t

[pnwmom]

57. Maria Cantwell is a champion of the environment and is largely responsible

for the fact that Sen. Ted Stevens failed in one of his pet projects: opening the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil drillers. She is strongly pro-choice and pro-GLBT. She was also a co-sponsor of a bill to have a public option in the health reform legislation.

We're lucky to have her working for us alongside Patty Murray, another great Senator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell

Don't ask, Don't Tell and the DREAM Act

Cantwell voted in September 2010 to invoke cloture to begin debate on the don't ask, don't tell policy in the military. Debate would have also commenced on the DREAM Act, though this was halted due to a Republican filibuster.<41>

Health care reform

Cantwell supports health care reform in the United States and was a co-sponsor of Senator Ron Wyden's (D-OR) Healthy Americans Act. In her role as a member of the Finance Committee, she had an influential role in crafting health care reform legislation. On September 29, 2009, when the Finance Committee considered health care reform legislation, Cantwell supported amendments to establish a public health care option that would compete with private insurers.<42>

Environmental views

In addition to her opposition to drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, Cantwell has been one of the most vocal critics of the increase of oil and gasoline prices during 2008.<43> Advocating increased regulation of futures markets and windfall taxes on oil profits, Cantwell has drawn scathing criticism from the Wall Street Journal.<44>

Cantwell received the highest rating possible from the League of Conservation Voters for her environmental voting record. She is known for supporting alternative energy research and for protecting Washington's forests from logging and the construction of paved roads and has earned endorsement from various prominent environmental advocacy groups<21> and other environmental groups.<22><23> She has opposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on multiple occasions, has voted to reduce oil usage by 40% by 2025, and has opposed legislation to relax or terminate CAFE standards.<45> The Seattle Times has described Cantwell's environmental record as "pristine",<46> and the Wilderness Society has described Cantwell as an "environmental champion".<47>

The Cantwell-Collins bill (S. 2877),<48> also called the Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal (CLEAR) Act,<49> directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to regulate the entry of fossil carbon into commerce in the United States, to promote renewable-energy jobs and economic growth.<50><51> The bill is bipartisan with Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine.

[Wounded Bear]

72. Agreed......big +1

Can't imagine an R winning these seats.

I keep praying, and voting.

[Drale]

5. Other: One of my Senators is awesome,

the other is one of the worst people I have ever met and should be in prison not in congress

[Irishonly]

50. +Me too

Love Boxer. Sometimes DiFi makes me so mad I could spit and then other times I want to hug her.

[Cleita]

6. Boxer and Feinstein.

Boxer rocks and Feinstein, meh.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Me too. Feinstein can be great, then she turns.

love Boxer!!!

[chowder66]

83. Ditto

[XemaSab]

11. Word

In the grand scheme, though, DiFi's ok.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. yeah but I vote for both of them over and over. remember the historic significance of their electio

The excitement when it was realized that California would have 2 women Senators.

[Parker CA]

37. Same for me. nt

[calimary]

40. My view exactly!

Boxer is so cool she almost makes up for feinstein.

[Cleita]

44. Barbara gets what little money I can spare for

candidates. Dianne, nope.

[underseasurveyor]

65. Exactly how it is too. nt

[xiamiam]

78. ditto

[CatholicEdHead]

7. I am lucky, Klobuchar and Franken

[Angry Dragon]

15. Same here, but I feel Klobuchar is too much of a fence sitter

and has no backbone

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

75. Franken is great; Klobuchar... meh.

She's better than a Republican, but she carefully avoids controversial issues. She seems to be terribly afraid of offending anybody.

[Odin2005]

76. Love Al. Amy is a "centrist" idiot.

[trof]

8. Alabama. Need I say more?

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. Yeah..we are SO blue in a red state.

And doesn't one of those senators strike you as being truly vacuous?
I swear his momma musta dropped him on his head.

[trof]

34. The (Dis)Honorable Gentleman from Mobile.

He's the most embarrassing of the two.

[JoePhilly]

9. Burr (R - right wing nut job) and Hagan (D - generally Moderate)

[madinmaryland]

12. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin. Two reliable democrats. And our

rep is John Sarbanes, son of our former senator, Paul Sarbanes.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Both my senators kind of suck.

Mark Begich is too busy cozying up to the oil companies to be considered a true Democrat at this point, although he does support all the social issues. Lisa Murkowski bucks the Republican trend now and then, but she too sucks up to oil companies.

Maybe I shouldn't say they suck, but more like they're "so-so," and I can't get real excited about either one of them.

[GoCubsGo]

82. Murkowski has been really interesting lately.

I am surprised at the number of times she has gone against her party since the new Congress began. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, perhaps?

[Blue_In_AK]

86. I agree.

I was kind of proud of her on the Ryan budget vote -- even if she opposed the budget for the wrong reasons, at least she voted against it.

On the other hand, both she and Mark Begich blew it on the ending subsidies for oil companies vote. That's sort of the default position of Alaskan politicians, unfortunately. We're fighting our governor now, who wants to give the oil companies a $2 billion a year tax break here, by eliminating Sarah's ACES plan ("Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share"), the one good policy that came out of her administration. Because of ACES we're one of the few states in the country running a budget surplus. Parnell wants to give it all away. (Maybe because he was once a Conoco-Phillips lobbyist and worked for EXXON on the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill litigation). I wonder if more people would have voted against him if that information had been more widely known.

[cordelia]

14. Chambliss and Isakson

You can guess how I voted. Odious pricks, the both of 'em.

[CurtEastPoint]

26. Double odious, smarmy, ignorant assholes. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

84. You are too kind.

I'm next door, right over the border, so I get all of the campaign commercials. The ones Suxby Chambliss ran against Max Clelland still make me wretch to think about them. There are no words good enough to describe the contempt I have for that motherfucker.

[calimary]

41. Could be worse, I guess. You could live in Oklahoma. Look who THEY'VE got. YUCK!

[cali]

16. Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy. eom

[provis99]

63. I bow down to Vermont.

It's like the un-Mississippi of America.

[franzia99]

17. Both are dems, both need to be replaced by different dems

[GCP]

18. Kerry and the tool Brown

Used to be Kennedy and Kerry

[Scuba]

19. Herb Kohl, OK. Ron "Sunspot" Johnson, NOT.

[Lifelong Protester]

22. I'm with you, Scuba, that Johnson dude has got to go

[charlyvi]

20. Richard Shelby and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.

[Vanje]

23. Crapo and Risch

Idaho.
Wide Stance.

[FLAprogressive]

24. Bill Nelson - OK, Marco Rubio - SUCKS

[csziggy]

39. Yep. You nailed it.

[NYC Liberal]

25. I like both my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. nt

[etherealtruth]

27. Levin and Stabenow

[rampart]

28. both my senators suck, vitter on a bottle of warm milk

mary, very corporatist

[Flashmann]

31. Durbin and kirk

One of my senators is okay, but the other is the ol' suckaroo

[stevedeshazer]

32. Wyden and Merkley

Good combo.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. Conyn and Hutchison...

you can probably guess my vote.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

35. Sherrod Brown rocks!

Voinovich was better than the Republican we got stuck with this time around.

[rox63]

36. John Kerry and Scott Brown

Kerry rocks, Brown sucks.

[JI7]

54. you use to have one of the best pair of Senators

[lonestarnot]

38. Are you kidderin me? Byl and McLumpy? ... hmmmf.

[WyLoochka]

45. Enzi and Barasso

we all know how much they suck.

[AlanCranston]

46. Boxer and Feinstein

they are both pretty good. However, Boxer can be controversial at times. She's kind of the left wing version of Jim Inhofe.

[TheKentuckian]

47. Most Senators are wretched mine are fucking entropy factories.

[Elwood P Dowd]

48. Rosco P. Coltrane and Boss Hogg.

Otherwise known as Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Hal Heflin was a Rhodes Scholar compared to these two clowns.

[Dawson Leery]

59. LOL!

[provis99]

62. heh. Heflin was a communist Jesus Christ compared to them.

[Robbie88]

51. Kohl is decent, Ron Johnson is batshit insane...n/t

[frylock]

52. boxer is teh r0x0r..

but feinstein can suck mine......

[blondeatlast]

53. AZ. 'Nuff said? nt

[Rochester]

56. Durbin kicks ass, Kirk is, well, for an R he's not terrible.

[Dawson Leery]

58. Blumenthal and LIEberman

Blumenthal - LIEberman

[footinmouth]

60. Schumer & Gillibrand

I'm lucky to have them. And my new rep is Kathy Hochul so I'm finally feeling represented.

[donheld]

61. Mark Udall & Michael Bennet

[Skip Intro]

64. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint. Does it get any worse? nt

[jmowreader]

67. Yes, it does

In Idaho we're represented by the Rietschle brothers--Jim Risch and Mike Crapo. Gravity isn't holding the US Capitol down, it's the suckage from the Idaho congressional delegation.

[Skip Intro]

68. rofl

the suckage from Idaho (a place I've always wanted to visit, btw) and I'm sure the suckage from SC, and GA probably, has the leaders in DC holding on to their desks like Kirk and the crew during a meteor shower.

[GoCubsGo]

81. They are pretty pathetic.

Although, I have to say, Miss Lindsay is like a broken digital clock. He's right once a day. Kinda drags them up off the bottom. I despise the dolt, but I'd rather have him than the clowns from Idaho and Georgia, or the Jesus Twins from Oklahoma.

[ScreamingMeemie]

66. Kay Bailey and Cornyn...

More than suckage. But we're working on that.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

69. Boxer and Feinstein - Beavis and Butthead in pantsuits

The last California senator worth more than their weight in shit was John Tunney.

[sufrommich]

70. Levin and Stabenow. I like them both. nt

[Donnachaidh]

71. TweedleDee and TweedleDum -- Chambliss and Isakson

Dumb and stupid -- and carrying their kneepads to every corporate party they are invited to.

[Odin2005]

73. Franken is pretty good. Klobacher is a tool.

[MrSlayer]

77. Casey is ok, Toomey is a complete and total asshole.

Not voting in Sestak was a terrible mistake as was voting for Corbett for Governor.

[PufPuf23]

79. Pelosi and DiFi.

Pelosi is far better than post but I will never understand "impeachment is off the table" and the bi-partisanship with GWB/Obama/Paulson etal in the Wall Street bailout.

I was a student at Cal when Mayor Moscone and Suprervisor Dan White were murdured by quitter Supervisor Dan White, and DiFi became Mayor of San Francisco. I have always voted for DiFi. I also graduated from the same Haas MBA program at Cal as her husband, Richard Blum. Blum benefited much in the early GWB years from no-bid DoD contracts into shell companies.

I will not cast a vote for DiFi again.

Where is the Obama DOJ?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

80. One Kicks Total Ass (Sherrod Brown), The Other Sucks Total Ass (Rob Portman)

I don't see that option up there.

[LiberalAndProud]

85. Ben Nelson and Mike Johanns

Sucker and suckier.