States With the Best/Worst Senate/House Delegations

[TheresNoMoney]

Best Senate:
Illinois
Wisconsin
California
New York
Maine

Worst Senate:
Oklahoma
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
Kentucky

[TheresNoMoney]

The New Hampshire Senators and Congressmen suck.

Gregg and Sununu are tools of the extreme right-wing. Jeb Bradley is a Tom Delay rubber stamp. Charlie Bass is the only halfway mediocre one of the four, and he is even pretty awful.

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I guess small states have an advantage - they don't generally elect any extremists (Vermont obviously excluded). 

Bernie Sanders is beloved by the people of Vermont because he represents their best economic and social interests. He is truly a champion of the people. He will win Jeffords' Senate seat in 2006 by a very large margin because the people trust him and know he is on their side.

I wish he was my representative.

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Stephanie Herseth is SOOOOOO HOT!

That's true.

But she did vote for the crappy bankruptcy bill.

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Yes, personal responsibility is a horrible horrible thing.

That bill was just another giveaway to the credit card industry. There was no exception for medical crisis bills (which account for at least 50% of bankruptcies) or divorce (which account for most others).

The value of the credit card companies went up after the bill was passed, MBNA was bought out by Bank of America, and now the state of Delaware will lose thousands of jobs (both Senators Carper and Biden voted for the bankruptcy bill).

This giveaway to credit card companies will result in thousands of lost jobs and will screw over the average American who has an unexpected, catostrophic illness or goes through a messy divorce.

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You must be way more liberal than I thought if you think Bernie Sanders is a great congressman.

What don't you like about Bernie specifically?

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He's a Socialist.  We need less of them in this country.

That doesn't tell me anything. That's just a superficial label that doesn't even really fit. We should try to get past past such a shallow level of discourse.

What SPECIFIC policies and/or bills of his don't you agree with?

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He's very pro-Affirmative Action, he received an F from the NRA, and he is anti-death penalty.   He also seems to support economic redistribution, which I'm not a big fan of.  In short he is just too liberal for my taste. 

None of that makes him a Socialist.

What do you consider economic redistribution? Do you get upset when the Republicans redistribute taxpayer money to large, multi-national corporations (ExxonMobil and others) or is that okay? Why do you ignore that?

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No, I wouldn't approve of dealings with major corporations that involve taxpayer money in the form of kickbacks, but that's not economic redistribution.

The Republican Congress gives millions, even billions, in subsidies and tax-breaks to hugely profitable multi-national corporations each year. Yet you never hear anyone complain about that. Welfare is OK as long as it goes to multi-national corporations and not to actual people that might need it.

http://www.mega.bz/news/article.mgi?id=83

http://www.progress.org/2005/tcs184.htm

http://www.progress.org/corpw30.htm

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All three are good.