Comments on: Don’t be a sucker for Gordon Smith’s budget vote http://blog.onwardoregon.org/dont-be-a-sucker-for-gordon-smiths-budget-vote/ Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:40:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Rick Ray http://blog.onwardoregon.org/dont-be-a-sucker-for-gordon-smiths-budget-vote/#comment-220 Rick Ray Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:59:39 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=61#comment-220 Looks like our Senator Smith has now directly supported drilling in ANWR. The headline to the AP story carried by the New York Times tonight read, "Senate Roll Call on Arctic Drilling." Though this was a only procedural vote to stop debate on arctic drilling, it was the vote that mattered. The successful filibuster forced the removal of the artic drilling provision from the defense bill. Smith was not among the three Republicans who voted to keep the debate going. The three were: DeWine of Ohio, Chafee of Rhode Island, and Alexander of Tennessee. Looks like our Senator Smith has now directly supported drilling in ANWR. The headline to the AP story carried by the New York Times tonight read, “Senate Roll Call on Arctic Drilling.” Though this was a only procedural vote to stop debate on arctic drilling, it was the vote that mattered. The successful filibuster forced the removal of the artic drilling provision from the defense bill.

Smith was not among the three Republicans who voted to keep the debate going. The three were: DeWine of Ohio, Chafee of Rhode Island, and Alexander of Tennessee.

]]> By: Sid Anderson http://blog.onwardoregon.org/dont-be-a-sucker-for-gordon-smiths-budget-vote/#comment-219 Sid Anderson Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:38 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=61#comment-219 Hoodwinked- I wonder what Judy Sheppard thinks of Smith now? It boggles my mind that people like her, former congresswoman Furse and the HRC fall for this. Furse's endorsement of him in '02 blew me away. Hoodwinked-
I wonder what Judy Sheppard thinks of Smith now? It boggles my mind that people like her, former congresswoman Furse and the HRC fall for this. Furse’s endorsement of him in ‘02 blew me away.

]]> By: Hoodwinked http://blog.onwardoregon.org/dont-be-a-sucker-for-gordon-smiths-budget-vote/#comment-218 Hoodwinked Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:59:59 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=61#comment-218 I am reminded of a passage in an editorial the Oregonian ran a few months back… (originally in the Washington Post on 9/30/05, I think it was in the Oregonian on 10/1/05.) <blockquote><b> “The Republican leaders play a game called "catch and release," in which they allow moderate Republicans to vote against conservative GOP legislation, thereby burnishing their reputations for "independence" – but only once it's clear that the leadership has a majority. Along with their Senate compatriots, House leaders have also perfected their use of conference committees (which are supposed to "merge" House and Senate bills) to shift legislation to the right and then slam it through Congress on an up-or-down vote.” </b></blockquote> In 2002, he hosed voters with these issues and his “Independent Streak” advertisements: “And he opposed the White House and stopped oil drilling in Alaska.” The vote on the budget and the defense bill were chances to stop oil drilling in Alaska. The other ones were for show. When the chips are down – and after newspapers have written glowing editorial headlines – he’s back on the right-wing reservation. And what about Judy Sheppard? She cut an ad in 2002 about her dead son saying “Matthew would have liked Gordon a lot.” Do you suppose that’s still true after Smith sponsored and pushed an election-year Amendment writing discrimination against gays into the US Constitution? I think we can do better than getting hoodwinked by the charade that Smith and the leadership put on. I am reminded of a passage in an editorial the Oregonian ran a few months back… (originally in the Washington Post on 9/30/05, I think it was in the Oregonian on 10/1/05.)

“The Republican leaders play a game called “catch and release,” in which they allow moderate Republicans to vote against conservative GOP legislation, thereby burnishing their reputations for “independence” – but only once it’s clear that the leadership has a majority. Along with their Senate compatriots, House leaders have also perfected their use of conference committees (which are supposed to “merge” House and Senate bills) to shift legislation to the right and then slam it through Congress on an up-or-down vote.”

In 2002, he hosed voters with these issues and his “Independent Streak” advertisements: “And he opposed the White House and stopped oil drilling in Alaska.”

The vote on the budget and the defense bill were chances to stop oil drilling in Alaska. The other ones were for show. When the chips are down – and after newspapers have written glowing editorial headlines – he’s back on the right-wing reservation.

And what about Judy Sheppard? She cut an ad in 2002 about her dead son saying “Matthew would have liked Gordon a lot.” Do you suppose that’s still true after Smith sponsored and pushed an election-year Amendment writing discrimination against gays into the US Constitution?

I think we can do better than getting hoodwinked by the charade that Smith and the leadership put on.

]]> By: Rick Ray http://blog.onwardoregon.org/dont-be-a-sucker-for-gordon-smiths-budget-vote/#comment-217 Rick Ray Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:50:17 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=61#comment-217 Write on, Sid! Write on, Sid!

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