Eye on Congress

This is a link to a Foreign Policy site article by Will Inboden, which we don't agree with per se, but it does show some of the foreign policy hypocrisy of Adam Smith and his mentor, President Barack Obama, so it's worth reading even though the Bush/Cheney govt. doesn't deserve even a hint of praise that Inboden seems to give them.  Metaphorically, "a pox on 'em all," meaning the just mentioned politicians.  Mark Greene is on record (Alaska Daily News, Sept., 2002 editions) for opposing the Iraq War Resolution.  Smith voted for the resolution.  Obama implied that he would have voted against it had he been in Congress in '02 -- if you believe that, we have some real estate in Florida to sell you.

We are temporarily changing the name of this blog to "Eye on Congress"  for the duration of the 2014 Congressional campaign in the 9th District of Washington, but the preceding title, "South King County Commons"   will remain as a sub-title.  We're making this change to focus on the neoconservative, global interventionist congressman, Smith, his votes in Congress, and comments in the media, many of which are out-of-sync with the district. We welcome any information about Smith's record in Congress from readers in the comments section, and we would appreciate that you note any facts about his record/votes with at least one source. Of course, the Party of Commons, which is supporting challenger Mark Greene (Commons/G.O.P.) in the 9th District, will be doing research and will write extensively about the record of Smith and his ongoing illiberal charade that has not fooled us.  Please, see the following links to posts about Smith on the various blogs of &

What does Rep. Adam Smith (WA - 9th District)  know about this spying-on-America Leviathan run by our own government?   It has been reported that the leaders of major committees in Congress have special access to the anti-4th Amendment intelligence dragnet that has been long suspected by some observers of the government, including this blog, but now is out in the open thanks to whistleblower,  Ed Snowden.   Smith is the ranking Democratic Party member on the Armed Services Committee, so he likely had/has better than average access to these government secrets that alledgedly are only for security purposes, but any perceptive person knows is also used to keep track of, among others, law-abiding political outliers or dissidents, e.g., "Occupy Wall Street" or the peaceniks in Minneapolis that the F.B.I. raided a couple of years ago.  Since "Prism" is so electronically sophisticated, it would be interesting to know if this system also monitors the virtually 100% ele