A Craig chronology

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A few dates:

• July 23, 1980: Then-President Carter signs the Central Idaho Wilderness Act, creating the 2.2-million-acre Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

• Nov. 4, 1980: Larry Craig is elected to Congress.

• Jan. 6, 2009: A new Congress is sworn into office, ending Craig's 28-year congressional career.

• March 25, 2009: Idaho's first wilderness bill since 1980 — creating the 517,000-acre Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness — passes Congress.

A succinct but fair assessment of Larry Craig's dismal public lands legacy.

That's a pretty Republican history lesson there, KR ; )

Four dates, a fairly vague accusation and no background. Will it come later?

THAT is a fair criticism. Please flesh it out for the newbies...I'm not even remembering 30 years that well.

I remember Split Enz and McFadden and Whitehead better to be honest.

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Granola whimpers upon spying my countenance

Forget what's his name, what about the story on the lobbyist

our state representatives can't do their job without? The guy everybody is all about, who when a state Senator, helped pass law to tax alcohol the first time, & stops alcohol tax now as a lobbyist when we need the money more then ever. Get that fool & corporate money out of my representation. The Idaho Tax Commission lies & Otter's buddy plan is getting real old.

If state representatives can't do the job we elect them to do, don't elect them. Why give credit to this clown, quit electing incompetent fools.

Was that Sunday's paper? Why do we have representatives if someone paid by corporations, lobbysists in the same pocket, & in bed with our misrepresentatives are all making out like a bandit, & we can't afford roads?

Maybe Otter has an answer. NOT! He said he could ride the pony but he could not ride. Too bad the people of this nation don't have the same DNA as the people who had the American Revolution. We're in a lot worse shape now & all the people do now is cry a little when our representatives shove the hot poker home while they count their money.

The American people deserve to be taken if they don't have the guts to do anything but cry about it. This two party joke we call democracy is responsible for every problem we have & they rip US off more everyday through campaign financne & lobbyist. I can't believe the paper even printed that crap about that little sawed off, back stabbing jerk.

I look forward to the day when? Look at the drug war in Mexico. It's all over America, busted our health care industry, & our representatives have promoted it for over a half century just like crooked banking.

All star wrestling has nothing on this joke.

Yes, Ghost, I'd have to agree with you. Craig=chunk change.

And what about GEORGE HANSEN, STEVE SYMMS and the rest of the Brady Bunch? Blaming it on one man solely is a waste of ink.

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MY MEMORY'S BACK!!! IT'S A FESTIVUS MIRACLE!!!

Water Cooler Cookies

Hangin out with Barker again eh? Or did you actually take the time to look up those dates?

p.s.
NO ONE cares about Craigs record on public lands. Or maybe you would like to refresh our memories on Senator Steve Symms' record on public lands????

I can't speak Spanish or Chinese & we'll all need to soon

because our represnetatives sold US out through campaign finance. All those dates don't mean much compared to today's date. Nothing has changed, we're still being taken in the greatest scam the world has ever seen through this two party joke & campaign finance.

As the headline in the Statesman Nation makes clear. US questions growing Chinese military power. We gave them trade & like Pakistan trillions of $ to fight terrorist, we'll be spending trillions to fight off China when they come to collect on their T bonds.

Pakistan, another example of our government incompetence, handing trillions over to a country helping terrorist & we spending trillions fighting war against the same terrorist.

Just like Vietnam, we weren't fighting communism we were financing it. Communist countries made trillions of $ on weapons used to kill 58,000 Americans in Vietnam. After we left Vietnam, Russia went broke fighting the Taliban who we provided weapons. Didn't learn from Russia's mistakes or our own.

The US government, our representatives are either proficiently incompetent or crooked as a dog's hind leg. The current financial crisis making neither a reason to continue on this course of ignorance.

Our representatives have US in a financial crisis we may never recover from & the people who will pay are the same 18 year old kids fighting terrorist in Afghanistan & Iraq, where we should have never gone to start with. If they live through war based on lies & financed, both sides, by our tax $, they'll pay the rest of their lives & live on the streets with no health care governmnet denying any war realted illness.

If these 18 year old kids, manipulated into the military by an economy trashed by our same representatives, volunteered, stop loss a backdoor draft, now they can't get out, don't wise up they will be the next generation of poor dumb Americans to lose as we are today.

Our representatives, elected through campaign finance, lobbied through the same un-American corporate & agri corrupt influence, gave all our jobs away to illegal immigration, busted unions, held down wages, busted our health care, & now we have to pay to fight the Mexican drug war as well as our own. Mexican drug cartels are set up all over America & we pay the wages of many through a farm bill that is no different then another stimulus, it's perpetual, has been for years. Clinton was all about free trade & now another Clinton is all about spending trillions fighting Mexico's drug war as well as ours in large part due to free trade?

We'd be money ahead paying Americans $20 an hour with health care & retirment our representatives enjoy. Our representatives are failing more than anyone & have US in this mess yet they're the only ones who still have all these benefits they contend are responsible for overpriced American products like cars? Seems to me representatives & CEOs are the ones who need pay cuts & loss of benfits for running US to ground, all the things they claim American workers have done through a living wage with benifits. They get auto pay raises & million dollar bonuses for failure & we don't do anything about it?

Next our representatives did as contributors wanted & we have this great trade with China which is the most expensive free crap we'll ever buy into. China is making out like a bandit in trade, buying T Bonds, & building a military that will walk over US like a bug when they come to collect their money, our country in the bargain. How is it rotten milk in China is a crime but when I report it in Idaho, interim Gov Risch & Gov Otter cover it up like the peanut butter scandal? China is abusive & human rights are nonexistant?

When the people wise up & kick Otter out of office, like we did Craig, should have Bush & Cheney, put an end to campaign finance, American taxpayers will be represented. Not banks, terrorist, illgeal immigrants, China, & every un-American corporation & agri corrupt contributor with enough spare change to buy our representation.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness.

We had a little thing called the American Revolution to get from beneath the yoke of control freak English yet somehow we had an English freak in the White house the last eight years running America no differently then the English did when we revolted.

Our Constitution & Declaration are worthless & the American people don't have a clue. bin Laden knows more about America, like illegal immigrants, & China have more representation than the American taxpayer in this two party joke we call democracy.

Before the American people catch on & put this government in it's place, working for US, we'll all be speaking Spanish & Chinese only to realize begging won't work any better than voting did because campaign finance bought our representation. Upside is the milk won't be rotten like our representation. How many Americans die every year from food poisoning, E. Coli, & all the rest while Otter tells me the USDA & FDA do inspections? If an American dies from rotten milk from Darigold will Otter be executed for covering up?

www.nextrevolution.net

Mmmm, I love Burritos and Kung Pao Chicken

Not sure about Menudo though. Will we be free to refuse that?

I think it all gets there eventually, no sweat.

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Granola whimpers upon spying my countenance