What is the stupidest thing your senator/congressman ever did?

[roguevalley]

After watching Lisa Murkowski try and minimize her last
name in a campaign ad, I thought about her dad, Frank,
appointing her to his senate seat when he was elected
governor.

What is the stupidest thing your guys/gals ever did?

Our boy, Don Young, got a couple of billion to make a
2 mile bridge over the cook inlet to end up at a place
that has only one resident, no houses.

He's proud of himself, the ******

[bobbieinok]

1. Inhofe (OK) lecturing senate on Jews Biblical right to all of Israel

[wryter2000]

2. DiFi

joined in on the Pledge Shout -- when they all shouted out UNDER GOD! on the floor of the Senate. She's Jewish. She had to know that Murika's God isn't her God. Besides, she's smart enough to understand the First Amendment.

[leyton]

13. Huh?

"She had to know that Murika's God isn't her God."

Care to explain that one?

[PurityOfEssence]

18. Findspine's a constant frustration

At least she's unassailable due to her moderate stances, but just when she pipes up about something that matters (Junior and Dickie dodging her on the energy rip-off) she backs off. She's an exasperation with legs, but at least she's more or less with the team. Sort of. On occasion. When the wind is right.

[bloom]

3. tried to carry a loaded gun on an airline flight to Washington

Hostettler - a couple days ago.

[LiberalFighter]

29. I remember McIntosh being drunk and...

and assaulting a stewardess here in Indiana

[LiberalFighter]

31. How about Mark Souder

“The only law that clearly established broke that I can see so far is he had sex with consenting minors. Do you send tanks and government troops into the large sections of Kentucky and Tennessee and other places where such things occur?” --Representative Mark Souder (R., Indiana), criticizing the federal government's actions at the Waco siege in an interview last month in a local newspaper; Souder defended his remarks last week, in part by noting that when he had made them, he was aware only that Koresh had slept with 14-year-olds, not 10-year-olds as testified to at the congressional hearings on Waco.

[LiberalFighter]

32. Mark Souder's Anti-Drug Education Law that

anyone with drug-related misdemeanor or felony convictions can't receive financial aid for school.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Voted for the Patriot Act

second runner up would be something more recent which I won't bother to mention, but it was just as much of a betrayal at the time.

[ithacan]

39. same here; voted for it without having read the whole thing

he now admits it was a mistake and is attempting to have it repealed (Hinchey, D-NY 22nd district)

[sandnsea]

5. Voted for "healthy forests"

I have absolutely no idea why DeFazio did that, totally shocking. Wyden, too many goofy things to mention.

[Kathleen04]

6. Got caught w/ a hooker..

but still won re-election (Ken Calvert).

[drthais]

7. ok, now this is the LOUISIANA legislature

but I think that counts too!

SHaron Weston Broome (black rep. from Baton Rouge)
offered a bill that ( I swear)
would note that Darwin's Theory of Evolution
is RACIST!

and NOW
she is busy promoting her NEW bill
which stipulates all manner of amazing things
that covenant marriage (which we have, by the way)
should stipulate
use your imagination

[yelladawg]

8. Brad Carson of Oklahoma

Brad Carson made a statement just two months ago, "There is no Democrat in Congress today who supports President Bush and the Iraqi War more than I."

[mgarretson]

46. Ouch...

yelladawg,
my sentiments are with ya, but ouch... He's the only Dem we have on the national level, soon to be our Senator...

I'd say Tom Cole's another example of stupidity because of his statement about a vote against Bush being a vote for tyranny...

So why aren't you running for OK-2 yelladawg? Boren, Jr. just isn't too inspiring... :)

[hedda_foil]

9. Offhand, I can't think of a single thing.

Don't hate me because Jan Schakowsky is my Congressperson!

[Wwagsthedog]

10. Texas is where my current abode is.

'nuff said!

[randr]

11. Campbell became a repug!

He is what we call an apple Indian--
Red on the outside--White on the inside

[dflprincess]

12. Said he was a 99% improvement over Wellstone

not that I think of that weasel Coleman as "my" senator.

[ButterflyBlood]

19. ditto

when in fact the value of Coleman as a senator to Wellstone is equivalent to that of the size of a single atom to the size of the entire universe.

[Hippo_Tron]

14. Hrmm, my congressman hasn't done anything dumb (that I know of)...

But I puke whenever his name is mentioned (David Vitter) :puke:.

[doc03]

15. Bob Ney from Ohio

He changed French fries to Freedom fries in house cafeteria. Thanks to redistricting we lost the idiot and now have Democrat Ted Strickland.

[cmd]

16. Unfortunately he is still my congressman

We correspond regularly. I send him my opinions and he tell me how much he values my input. Then he votes in congress and shows me how much my input meant. How many times can you say nothing?

[mitchum]

17. Zell Miller...nuff said

dirtbag

[Hepburn]

21. Zell Miller............

.........wow, you have my deepest sympathies! Gawd.....I was reading about him the other day cuz some neocon was telling me whadda great American Zell is - so I figured I better learn about the enemy. I think he has the highest number of roll calls missed and that is about the nicest thing anyone can say about him! Zell Miller.....:puke: LOL, but I should talk. I have Ah-not for a governor!

[napi21]

26. yea, he's my Sen too. Every candidate I meet, I ask

You're not going to turn out like Zell, are you?

All you have to do is mention his first name in a Dem enviornment and you can feel the contempt!

What's the worst thing he's ever done? Act like a Pub and not have the kojones to just resign and admit it!

[ButterflyBlood]

20. let's see...

Dayton - nothing too bad, although he's voted the wrong way a couple times and said a few things during the invasion that I wasn't too fond of (even though he opposed it for the most part)

Coleman - already mentioned above, plus plenty of other lame things he's done and said.

Gutknecht - nothing in particular, just votes the party line on pretty much everything (two exceptions: importing perscription drugs and the Medicare plan, and NCLB). but cosponsoring the Federal Discrimination Amendment probably pissed me off the most.

In the State Senate, I have John Hottinger, the former Senate Majority Leader last year, who is a pretty nice guy and overall pretty liberal, but was a very weak leader who let Pawlenty walk over him too many times.

[LibDemAlways]

22. Can we include governors too? If so, I think

sexually harrassing women isn't just stupid, it's criminal.

And even though I live in California, I have personal knowledge of an act of stupidity committed by Sen. George Allen (R-VA) long ago.
He sprayed the walls of his own high school with racist graffiti - actually anti-white graffiti- hoping to stir up a little racial hatred.

Two neanderthals of questionable character who, in a just world, would never hold a position of public trust.

[JNelson6563]

23. Expect other Dems to have a spine

Carl Levin in offering an amendment to the IWR that would keep the powers of the boy king to declare war in check got voted down, even by his Dem collegues.

How silly of him to think they'd quit cowering under their desks and get behind he who would not be intimidated.

Julie

[democratreformed]

24. Voted for:

1. IWR
2. Medicare Bill
3. Bush tax cuts
4. Patriot Act
5. Omnibus Bill (overtime pay)
6. Bush energy policy

That would be the great Blanche Lincoln, BTW.

25. Married Bill Clinton

:-)

sorry, couldn't resist.

Just joking, really.

[Toucano]

34. Hilarious!

Just for fun, of course.

[genius]

27. USA-PATARIOT, Homeland Security: Both Boxer and Feinstein

Also Dianne Frankenstein voted for the war and for the $87 billion and for the bankruptcy bill. She votes way to often with the Republicans on financial matters.

[LWolf]

43. Agreed.

And then there is my congressperson; Howard "Buck" McKeon.

He loves GWB. Gives him everything he asks for.

And my state senator; William J. "Pete" Knight. Check him out:

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/mgi/campaign/2000/cal/primary/caprop/prop22/website-no/whobehind.html

[Mixxster]

28. I'm from PA

Specter - Hmm. Magic bullet or Anita Hill?

Santorum - 'nuff said

[ibegurpard]

30. Earl Blumenauer

Congressman from the most rock-solid liberal congressional district in Oregon voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. The next election was the only time I ever voted against a Democrat in an election.

[Toucano]

33. Freedom Fries

Need I say more? Big national attention for being the father of freedom fries.

Piss off, Bob Ney!

[beyurslf]

35. Todd Tiahrt

One of the most conservative voting members of the Congres. UGH.

[saracat]

36. JD Hayworth tried to sue Donald Duck!

He had to be told he was a cartoon.Swear to God . It was on the old CNN Spin Room and he was serious! Another time on Crossfire, last year, He identified himself as the congressman from NC.Later Paul Begala corrected the mistake and said that JD was from Arizona.But JD said it was all the same as he had once played football for NC!

[maxanne]

37. the list is extensive

after all, I live in NH - where my former Senator Bob Smith took his terrible toupee and ran for president a few years back. Oh - the shame of it all...:+

We still have Judd Gregg, and John Sununu,Jr. That's pretty embarassing in itself.

[northzax]

38. unfortunately, nothing.

but then maybe that's cuase all the rezt of your congressfolk and senators work so hard to keep me from having any.

[jsw_81]

40. Mine (Jennifer Dunn) named her son after Ronald Reagan

Is that sick or what?!?

[Esurientes]

41. Virgil Goode fell asleep onstage

during a Project Literacy conference I attended in Martinsville. I'm sure he's done stupider things that I haven't witnessed.

At least he answers constituent letters succinctly and politely, unlike Sen. John Warner's two-page, arrogant replies.

[Forkboy]

42. Chappaquidick

[Dob Bole]

44. I love my Congressman!

Sanford Bishop, Southwest Georgia!

Woot!

[dryan]

45. Tom Feeney

Once suggested that Florida succeed from the US -- didn't know it was in the Constitution.

[JayS]

47. One of our Reps here in Texas, at a NASA press conference...

...about the Mars Rover, asked if the Rover would be able to see the flag the astronauts left behind.

[dontstopthere]

48. i've got both Zell and POS Lewis

Zell for obvious reasons.

Lewis for his support of the draft.

[Kitsune]

49. Voted for NAFTA, off the top of my head.

I don't know what he did on the PATRIOT Act. I'm sure he voted for it, but I don't know and I'm too tired/lazy to look it up right now, so I'll go with NAFTA.

Norm Dicks, D-WA, btw.