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 po...

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...

Mark Greene had previously said he would not run for King County Council, Position No. 9, if he could not raise $6,395.00 by May 13th, but now has dropped that number to just $3,395.00.   Greene's probable opponents in District 9 are incumbent Reagan Dunn and Shari Song.   Greene will make a decision on May 12th, 2013 on whether to run or not. Update:  this blog has changed its name from Southern Northwest Commons to South King County Commons. [updated on 4/30/2013]

The Seattle Medium, which purports to be the paper of Seattle's "African-American" (a term never used by the Party of Commons; see this link on "Ancestry and Politics") community, has never once invited me to a boardroom for an interview, or even called me on the telephone, during my eight years in politics in Washington, and yet they pronounce endorsements of candidates for various races without so much as a one sentence explanation for their choices.  When I ran for King County Council in 2009, they chose Republican Reagan Dunn instead of me and another candidate, but in this year's endorsements for state attorney general they said, in so many words, that Dunn showed no interest in the community that they mostly address (ditto for Dunn's main rival according to the Medium).  Now, in another of their endorsements this year, they are endorsing Brad Owen for Lt. Governor (they can't even spell his name correctly) without an iota of a reas...

Anybody who reads the Party of Commons' blogs knows that we're not big fans of the Barack Obama administration, so now that we have that qualifier out of the way, the propaganda about the so-called "Fast and Furious" case that the Republicans and FOX News are trying to make a scandal out of is little more than ridiculous.  They're saying that Attorney General Eric Holder was trying to use the "Fast and Furious" operation as some kind of grand scheme to implement gun control, presumably of the sort that was in place during the Clinton administration, as if this nation didn't need some common sense checks-and-balances on certain types of guns and the current gun policy.  Of course, we don't think that the Republicans really believe any of this, so we believe this is real propaganda.  Moreover, there are two problems with trying to create an election year scandal out of this case:  Number 1:  going by their record, the Obama ...

Since we last wrote, the one major colossus party, i.e., Democrats & Republicans, played musical chairs again for control of the national House of Representatives, with the Republican side now in predominance and officially taking control in early January, 2011. Interestingly, the American people chose the side that would most severely harm the interests of the masses, the Republicans, with a good number of their members more than willing to dismantle the long established New Deal & Great Society programs, namely, social security, unemployment insurance compensation, medicare, educational aid for college students, food support and what's left of federal support for impoverished dependent children (effectively demolished during Clinton's time except for grants to be administered by the states, thus poor children were left to the mercy of the various states), among others. Amazingly, in this New Gilded Age, where the top 1% in assets and income control a quarter of th...