Eye on Congress

While I am campaigning, several people tell me they are supporting Adam Smith for Congress no matter what.  However, when I ask them to name some accomplishment by Smith that helped to garner their support, I usually get frowns as if I was giving them some kind of hard test.  About the closest thing I've heard from someone to answer this question was that he's good on technology, but that was it, just a general vague sense that he is doing something right with technology -- perhaps giving the go-ahead for Uncle Sam to assist a country, with American nuclear energy technology, that has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), as if that were "good."  Smith, as a de facto member of the Democratic Party's corporate "Blue Dog" wing in Congress, is part and parcel of the "This Town" (a new book by Mark Leibovich) crowd in Washington, D.C.  We recommend this book to anybody who wants to know how the present Congress works for corp

The extent to which the neocons are concerned about a close Congressional race in the 9th District of Washington next year is shown by Rep. Adam Smith's increasingly numerous appearances on Mainstream TV -- and probably radio -- in the last year or so, particularly on the Obamaite MSNBC network. Smith was just on MSNBC last weekend making his case for a perpetual global interventionist doctrine which he, Bush II and Obama have helped to enshrine during their years in D.C. Recently, all-but-presidential-candidate for 2016, Governor Chris Christie (New Jersey), threw his lot firmly in with the Obama-Bush neocons as he criticized also semi-presidential-candidate, Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky), who has a wiser isolationist outlook on global affairs than any of the aforementioned politicians. Yet, everybody knows that terrorism has to be counteracted, there's no debate about that, but it's counteracted most effectively in a narrowly focused way, not some nebulous, semi-indisc