Holland, Misogynist

For those of you unfamiliar with my current political geographical situation, I live in Michigan's 2nd District--one of the most conservative districts in Michigan. For example, the majority of letters on the editorial page of my local paper are currently about murdering "babies." I'd link it to you, but for some reason the Holland Sentinel finds it necessary to make one register in order to view their site. It's free so if you have some time on your hands and would like a taste of my local scene go crazy. Another hot topic? Zeeland, Michigan debating whether or not alcohol should be sold within city limits.

My Congressman is Pete Hoekstra, a man who has said so many times that he wasn't going to run again we gave up counting. I manage to be little more than an annoyance to him mostly through the numerous emails I shoot his way letting him know just how much I disagree with him. Over the past few years he has managed to make quite a national name for himself and yesterday was on Meet the Press. As a leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Hoekstra was obviously on to talk about the eavesdropping business. In an interesting move, Hoekstra denounced the program as ineffective: "Does anyone really believe that, after 50 days of having this program on the front page of our newspapers, across talk shows across America, that Al Qaeda has not changed the way that it communicates?"
Go Pete. Nothing like blaming the institutions and people who are attempting to uncover the actual legal and constitutional ramifications of the program for encouraging terrorism. He goes on to question those members of Congress who knew about the program and now have reservations about it. If HE'D been privy to the information and believed something illegal was going on, HE would have said something. Those members of Congress were informed that due to security reasons they were unable to share any information about the program with anyone. Rockefeller did voice his concerns in 2003 in a handwritten letter to Dick Cheney ( I love how the press stressed that the letter was handwritten because he was unable to have a staffer type it up for him due to the classified nature of the correspondence. Ah, the evolution of technology! We live in a world where handwriting letters is considered burdensome). What I particularly enjoy about Pete's opinion is how he manages to say that he believes in the constitutionality of it, but thinks that the program should be dismantled. Nothing like having your cake and eating it too. If I were a Republican Congressman, I'd jump on Pete's logic. It's a win-win for them.

Why is it that I keep giggling whenever I think about Cheney shooting someone?
Not funny.
Bad liberal, bad.

Blogger spellcheck thought I should replace "Michigan" with "misogynist"
Maybe I should.