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Gordon Smith caves to Big Oil

“Gordon Smith has again shown the dishonesty of his slick campaign ads and so-called independence in the U.S. Senate,” said Kelly Steele, the party’s communications director. “When the chips were down, Gordon Smith bowed to the will of the Bush White House, and broke another promise to Oregonians.”

Karl Rove & Gordon Smith

” John McCain and Gordon Smith caved. And the oil-drilling measure passed.”

“At the time, Rove noted that Oregon’s incumbent Sen. Gordon H. Smith, a Republican, faced a difficult reelection. The Interior Department was then questioning whether to allow drought-stricken farmers to pull more water from Oregon’s Klamath River, endangering the state’s salmon population. Farmers are a critical part of the Oregon GOP base.

An inspector general’s report subsequently concluded there was no inappropriate pressure on the decision makers in the Klamath case. But the controversial decision to release water to farmers resulted in the largest fish kill in the West and still angers Indian fishermen and environmentalists. Smith won reelection”

Gordon Smith’s $1.9-Billion-a-Week Problem

“What’s a trillion dollar price tag mean? That means Gordon Smith is willing to spend $1.9 billion a week to improve the lives of the Paris Hiltons of the country.”

Gordon Smith: Making Oregon Less Competitive

“A proposal to raise the national minimum wage to $6.25 per hour from the current $5.15 was defeated 51-47 today. Gordon Smith voted with the majority of Republicans to defeat the proposal. No Democrats voted with Smith.”

Sensing his impending defeat in 2008, Oregon Republican Senator Gordon H. Smith, who in 2002 voted to authorize the war in Iraq, flip flopped on Thursday and became the first GOP senator to raise the possibility of a quick withdrawal of American troops. Senator Gordon Smith is an opportunist. Too little too late, opportunist Senator Gordon Smith won’t be reelected in Oregon in 08.

“In 2005, after accepting $47,000 from Virgin Islands corporate interests, including a fundraiser thrown on his behalf by supporters of the tax loophole, Smith last year opposed a budget amendment that would have repealed tax incentives for domestic companies that move their manufacturing plants to offshore locations. The measure’s resulting revenue projected to reduce the federal deficit by $3.2 billion from 2006 to 2010.”

Gordon Smith. Flip. Flop. Flippity-Flop.

“The US Senate passed a $70 billion tax cut – most of it going to the wealthiest Americans. Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon originally registered a “nay” vote but changed to “aye” just before the tally was announced.”

Gordon Smith’s Ethics Problem

“If the records are accurate, the trip by Smith and four other Republican lawmakers would violate ethics rules that bar lobbying firms from paying for trips taken by members of Congress.”

Gordon Smith supported Racist Trent Lott as Republican Minority Whip.

Trent Lott stepped down as minority leader in 2002 after stating the country would be better of if Presidential candidate Strom Thurmond would have won on the segregation platform.

“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger [1]] race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.” — Presidential Candidate Strom Thurmond 1948 Segregation Camptaign Speech

Gordon Smith took money from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

“The senator has held fundraisers at a D.C. restaurant that Abramoff owned until recently, and he has taken thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Abramoff and his tribal clients. …

Between May 2001 and May 2002, Abramoff wrote three $1,000 checks to Smith, followed by a $2,000 check in June 2002 from one of his main clients, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws. In late October 2002, right before Smith’s reelection, while he enjoyed a large lead in the polls over Democrat Bill Bradbury, the senator accepted three more checks totaling $4,000, two from the Mississippi tribe and one from another Abramoff client, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in California. Since the election, Smith has received two additional checks from Abramoff’s Indian clients, totaling $6,000.”

…said the man who started crying at his first White House press briefing when someone asked him about his yellow wristband. Yes, that’s right Tony. It’s stupid for someone to get emotional about something if it’s not all about you.

And worth less than that.

Snow more then anyone else leaned on Tripp hard to wear the wire that led to the perjury trap they set for President Clinton. He climbs down into the political gutter as good as Lee Attwell did. He pretends to be a journalist but in reality he produces nothing but Bush propoganda that Dr. Joeseph Goebbels would be envious of.

He dismisses the Senator from Oregon as being “emotional”. What an insult for a man that carried Bush’s water for a few years. That pie in the Sky democratic Domino effect for the Middle East has turned around on you and the Domino’s that are falling are in your own party.

I’m very dissapointed that the young people of this country aren’t organizing a huge protest march in DC. Step up here and get involved so that we can get our troops out of Iraq. It’s very important that you do this as soon as possible.

I’d like to see at least 2 million protesters in DC camping out in a vigil as close to the White House as possible. This Lawbreaker , our President, needs the full court press from the citizens, because I see no way that the Democratic Party will do what is requried to end the war and end it SOON.