for a lot of reasons.
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George Nethercutt lied about his commitment to term limits.
In his 1994 campaign against Tom Foley, George Nethercutt presented himself as an outsider who championed term limits. He broke that promise when it came time for him to honor his pledge and limit his own term.
In November 1994, The New York Times reported that Nethercutt "played up his inexperience in government, saying he wanted to return to something closer to the part-time Congress of old." Now after 10 years in office, he's running for State Senator against our incumbent Patty Murray.
Even staunch Republican William Bennett gives him a thumbs down on that one.
"This ought to bother people," William J. Bennett, the Republican grandee and former Reagan and Bush Administration official, told me. "I campaigned for Nethercutt in '94, and I liked him, I liked his ideas. But he's now acting dishonorably. He's breaking his word, and he's doing it without any apparent remorse. He's making people more cynical about politics. Some promises should not be kept, because circumstances change. But about the only circumstance that has changed here that seems to me to be relevant is that he has gotten to like where he is, and I don't think that's enough."
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George Nethercutt shafts working people.
A good example was when the steelworkers in Washington State went on strike Sept. 30, 1998 protesting Kaisers plan to subcontract 950 jobs to a nonunion operator. They were joined by Kaiser workers at plants in Gramercy, Tacoma, Wash., and another in Ohio – more than 3,400 workers nationwide.
Four months later, on Jan. 13, 1999, the strikers offered to return to work under the old contract. Kaiser refused and the strike became a lockout.
What did George Nethercutt do? He blocked a bill in the state of Washington to extend benefits for those workers.
In 2003 he is still voting against extending unemployment insurance to laid-off workers
This link has the Spokane Central Labor Council's take on George Nethercutt when Kaiser locked out striking steel workers
And that's what his constituents in Spokane think of him....wow.
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George Nethercutt voted agains Veteran's health care.
Nethercutt Supports Cutting Veteran's Medical Care
What more can you say?
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Well he had a little more to say....
George Nethercutt said about our progress in Iraq that "The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable. ... It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."
He tried to get the Seattle P-I to clean it up for him -
Nethercutt alleges P-I distorted speech on Iraq
Not unlike weaseling his way to success by spouting the term limits he so firmly believed in until it came time to buck up, show some integrity and limit his own term in office.
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George Nethercutt doesn't represent the best interests of average citizens.
Not because he's a Republican because he's who he is (see above).
This article Don't rule out Nethercutt's 'Reagan wing' rival presents a more balanced point of view from another Republican named Reed Davis who unsuccessfully ran against George Nethercutt in the primary this year.
Davis is a former King County Republican chairman who has taught political science for 14 years at Seattle Pacific University.
Reed Davis had this to say,
"I'm embarrassed when people ask me, 'How is it that you guys (Republicans) control everything in Washington, D.C., and you can't cut anything?' " Davis told the activists.
In the past three years, he added, federal spending has grown by $400 billion. The federal deficit is at a record $374 billion, and even non-discretionary, non-military spending has climbed by 20 percent.
Nor does Davis like the energy bill. "I just worry it is loaded with pork," he said afterward, quoting GOP Sen. John McCain's observation that the legislation was "authored, drafted and run through by special interests."
A hopeless cause against the Cheney-Nethercutt juggernaut? Not quite."
Reed Davis didn't win his cause against the special interest Cheney-Nethercutt juggernaut this year.
But Patty Murray will.
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Postscript - After I wrote this I found another quote by George Nethercutt.
Congressman Nethercutt didn't mince words in his message to Boeing, "I would have no reason to support Boeing, even on appropriations, if they were to abandon this plant." His message drew shouts of support from the crowd that appreciated their Congressman taking the aerospace giant to task.
He made that statement at the Spokane Rally.
After George Nethercutt made that promise, Boeing did abandon that plant. It was sold to Triumph, some workers lost their jobs and those that were left took pay cuts.
Let's see if he holds to his word on this one.
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I just don't get it sometimes.
If I was unemployed I really wouldn't understand why the Republican Congress Leaves Jobless Workers in the Cold for the Holidays with the explanation that the economy is improving.
If you're out of work and losing your unemployement benefits it would be hard to relate to that explanation.
In some parallel universe that must make sense...otherwise why would so many people buy into it? Probably makes sense in the Fox Network universe or the good old boys clubs where high financiers hang with their buds.
A more likely explanation is that the purveyors of this bullshit belive that the American people have short attention spans and deserve to be manipulated because of their lack of understanding. Don't sell people short. Some people get all their news from TV but there's a whole bunch of smart dedicated people in this country who can smell BS even before they step in it.
One last little tidbit. Many years ago I was driving across South Dakota and stopped into a small cafe in a small town. There was a group of farmers and ranchers sitting around visiting. I was a young lad, and even though I had grown up on and around farms and ranches, had a mistaken vision of farmers and ranchers as sort of back country people who watched the livestock report and talked about the weather. They do that sure, but I was totally amazed at the depth and understanding of the politics those boys showed. I don't think those people were unusual. There's a lot of smart informed people in this great country.
My point (or rather P.T. Barnams) is you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Like the Who said We Won't Get Fooled Again
