Rich fox wants guard our henhouse

Gordon Smith is a tax-and-spend Republican who has helped lay waste to American standing in the world, has helped wreck our economy, voted to send Oregonians to kill and die in an illegal war, and has committed impeachable offenses as a member of the loyal Bush regime.

Today we learned in a Nick Turse investigative report of Tomdispatch.com that our military--funded extravagantly by Gordon Smith at every opportunity--is porking out on our dime. The Pentagon's officers are eating out at restaurants all over the country and the world, funded by you. Deep in the receipt pile are notes such as $310,776 spent in 2006 at an eatery in Singapore. Nice to know our troops are not having to be on base or spend their own money to eat fancy. The people whose job it is to illegally invade other people's lands eat the finest and most pricey food, paid for by you and me and with Gordon Smith's approving, enabling votes to fund fund fund the death machine.

Since Gordon Smith is wealthy, it is understandable that he has so little sympathy for the common person's wish to simply choose where to spend the fruits of her or his labor. What is so ultimately unacceptable is that he pretends to know and care. He doesn't. He needs to be replaced by someone who can actually rein in the military for once.