Friday, May 9, 2008

Found 0 items: De-Cipher Smith

Tell us, Senator Smith, why a voter who is determined to vote on the record rather than rhetoric finds your website such a cipher? When we go your official website we enter "voting record" in the search function and it thinks for a few nanoseconds about your entire content available to voters and comes up with:
Found 0 items with the term "voting record":

So we look further and find that you always vote for more money for war. Yes, you are in a blue state and you are a red senator, so you have to craft a voting record that you can sell to us. You are a part of the war system in peaceloving state. How do you deal with that?

You create a voting record that agrees with the other party and disagrees with yours often enough so that everyone calls you a "moderate" Republican (Full Oxymoron Alert!). In reality, according to the voting record kept by the Washington Post, you cast most of your renegade votes on matters of little real import, such as the
"Vote 97: S 2739: Coburn Amdt. No. 4522; To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine on an annual basis the quantity of land that is owned by the Federal Government and the cost to taxpayers of the ownership of the land." Democrats actually voted against that for reasons too obtuse to explore, and you voted oh-so-courageously with those virtuous Ds.

So when we read that you voted against Bush and the Republican leadership 27 percent of the time, we can contextualize that to mean that you've determined that 27 percent of the votes were so meaningless that you used them to create a false record as bravely opposing Bush.

Senator Smith, you use fraudulent methods and you should not be reelected on your bogus record.

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