I know. Eight terms! How many other congressional fossils are out there?

Easy answer AG99, too many. Power corrupts and long term power corrupts absolutely.

onermail: My problem with your complaint about "the chosen few" is that WE chose them. Don't we want the people WE chose to be running things????

The chosen few are lobbyists who get the perky deals out of Congress. I would like our repRESENTatives to represent us, not the chosen few.

onermail: thanks for the clarification, but I'm not sure how replacing Congressmen/women accomplishes your goal as doing that would not cause the lobbyists to disappear and might in fact increase their power as the only way these newbies would ever have enough money to run successful campaigns against incumbents is through raising it from lobbies to whom they'd then be beholden (as we're seeing with the itchy rash of Tea Party freshmen).

Good for him - too many people don't realize that the radical-right has its eyes on state offices. Don't get too distracted by the presidential and congressional elections. The right is trying to fill the state pipelines with people like Scott Walker, and Kasich.

Besides, there are term limits in every Federal congressional and senatorial election. Apparently, Inslee's constituents are satisfied with his performance.

Example. In 2010 we got a whole new batch of congress critters. And all we've received so far are attacks against "the pill." Good Lord! What a bunch of losers.

Yeah, jrae, and with the socialist fool in the WH, we're going to hold the House, then take the Senate and stop this socialist crap of Bozobama's from going ANY further, as well as strengthening our positions in the states. Sanity WILL return, especially when we boot Bozobama back to Chicago in November.

Good, one more waste of breath Republican gone that we don't have to worry about.

kraussk,

You win the Rigthtwingnut Prize for Outlandish Quote: "Sanity will return...." when President Obama leaves office.

In your warped sense of the world, who do you think will bring the sanity back? Santorum? Romney? Let me guess, Gingrich????

I always believe that it is possible to 'agree to disagree' and don't leave these blogs angry. What does trouble me however are those like Brenda 1964 who didn't even read the article (less than one page) and make ridiculous statements. Inslee is a DEMOCRAT Brenda!

mhrjhn- Maybe she meant commonman and the cronies in the first thread, now collapsed. :D

Speaking of Congressional Democrats, former Flordia Rep Alan Grayson (D) ran a red light and hit a bus when he was in a hurry to get to a fundraiser. 2 people in the bus had minor injuries, I hope they have a speedy recovery. It appears he will be charged. Not a good thing to have on the resume as he attempts to regain his seat that was lost in 2010.

This is the same Alan Grayson who said that the GOP was like Al Qaeda in the pilot's seat of an airplane, and that the GOP's healthcare plan was to hope that sick people "die quickly". Harsh words from a man who risked public safety to get to a fundraiser on time.

Frequent 99% supporter Grayson ran a red light and hit a bus while driving his Mercedes on the way to a fundraiser. You can't make this stuff up.

Strange that there is no story on MSNBC's website yet...

I wonder if a well meaning trial lawyer will be filing a lawsuit against Grayson on behalf of the 2 injured passengers?

I guess the old saying is true. "Never stand between a Democrat and other people's money."

Fo' Mo' With B.O.!!! Fo' Mo' Wif' B.O.!!!

BTW Brenda 1964, I think Rep. Inslee is a Democrat

Weasel: I don't know where you've been looking, but when I searched msnbc for "Alan Grayson" the very first story that appears is about the accident to which you refer, so your comment about it being strange there is no msnbc story on it is absolutely false. People have car accidents. I'm sure the insurance companies and their attorneys will figure it all out. Just curious: did you vote against Bush/Cheney because both of them had DUI convictions? Didn't think so.

We have 17 Tea Retards that infiltrated Congress that act like a militant group, they must be removed before they destroy this Nation. Throw the 1% Kochead puppets out.

Frequent 99% supporter Grayson ran a red light and hit a bus while driving his Mercedes on the way to a fundraiser. You can't make this stuff up.

Strange that there is no story on MSNBC's website yet...

I wonder if a well meaning trial lawyer will be filing a lawsuit against Grayson on behalf of the 2 injured passengers?

I guess the old saying is true. "Never stand between a Democrat and other people's money."

I guess I don't get how this is even a story anywhere but the land of the 24 hour news cycle and in your mind.

Some congressman ran a red light. Whoa... wow, I KNOW I HAVE NEVER done that. I NEVER make mistakes when I'm driving or doing anything else.

Geeze. Talk about non-news. Now if he'd have been stoned or getting a BJ that might amount to something...

Bye, please don't come back except as a bumble bee. Like a bumbling idiot, you know.

, and with the socialist fool in the WH

Do you have any actual concept of what socialism is? I didn't think so.

Yes, but obviously you dont. It is the ticket to big boss central government and everyone living at the poverty level....except of course the big boss government officials....Why does the left keep up this crap that no one knows what socialism is....dumb, dumb, dumb....

Why vote for another quitter? We have enough people supporting all the wrong issues as it.

Jennit. It sounds that you are a real Washingtonian - as opposed to we outsiders who like to comment liberally (oooops.... sorry....) on a person with whom we are totally unfamiliar. Please. Follow up with more extensive writing. And DKJ.... If Jay had retained his seat and devoted a great portion of his time campaigning for governor.... I'll bet you would have been infinitely critical about abandoning obligations as a legislator. Hmmmmm..... What do ya think about beloved Sarah "quitting" mid-term.... without the reasoning of running for another office......?????? Eh?/ Eh?? Yeah.... I thought so..... Zip up: Your agenda is showing.................

DKJ, you're an idiot. Anyone who actually in Washington knows that he's not quitting Politics, he's simply running for governor. I'm voting for him. He's actually done a good job representing my district too in congress. While he will be missed in congress, I think he'll do a good job in the Washington Governors mansion. Thanks Jersey Bob for defending Jennit for me so I didn't have to. (But I think I just did anyways. =D)

Jay Inslee is quite possibly (actually is)the slimiest, most sold-out person/ politician I have met in my life. He has been bought by the far left wing for most of those too many years he has been in politics. He had to leave the East side of the state because he was so hated. He moved to Seattle as we all know anything goes over there and there are no morals or ethics.... a perfect fit. Get all the way out Jay. Save our state and don't even give anyone a chance to vote for you. The idiots in the tri-county area will vote for him just because there is a D next to his name. D should be for the grade he has earned, not for his political association. Please think before you vote and say away from Jay!

Actually if he quits before the end of his term, he is a quiter. He was elected by the people for a set time and he has not fulfilled his term..If he wants to quit to run for govenor, he needs to quit now and run next time.

He is showing the people of Washington that his wants are more important than their needs. So much for being a public servant!

Shadowofself, bet you ten to one you never said that about Sarah, did you? Fess up slick, you really didn't say anything when she quit 1/2 way through her term. Typical BS from a pugbag.

Jay Inslee sure beats that lying windbag of a Attny Gen who's running for WA State Governor. Glad to see he's taking this mission seriously. I was worried for sometime that he was spending too much time with the National issues and not enough time on our balanced budget here in WA.

Didn't the Texas Tornado GEEDUBYEE' "quit" his Governor post?

I sure hope he will be our next Governor!!! We'll be working for you Jay!

Once again the truth of a real politicain, do what ever benifits themselves & their friends. Wouldn't be surprise to find he is union backed.

Too bad he gets a retirement check from the Government,we need to stop all Public retirements and let them donate to their 401Ks as we have to.

parkwayne - He is a Democrat, so his district never had representation anyway. He does what the president or his party wants, his constituents are of little concern.

pjam: and God forbid the Republican ever vote as their party wants! You seem to be unaware of the unanimous opposition of Republicans in Congress to whatever the President proposes, even when it's exactly what Republicans proposed in past years.

Actually ds it has been the Republicans who have been fractured and difficult to corral, remember? It's the Dums who march lockstep with the Unions and Dum Leadership. Tell me again the last time Harry Reid or Princess Nancy had an original thought of their own? Can you give me an example please? I'll wait....

Oh, maybe their outright rejection of a public option in the Health Care Reform Act, perhaps??? Maybe their failure to pass the Dream Act? Their push to extend the Bush era tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy when Obama pleaded in public with them not to do that? Their failure even to vote on Card Check for union membership?

Ah, nice to see the rightwingnut liars out in force today.

Didn't the Texas Tornado GEEDUBYEE' "quit" his Governor post?

Why do we do this? Look, Inslee is to me of little good as a politician but he has every right to quit his position in order to run for higher office. I would like in my state a change which simply says that if you submit papers to run for a seat not your own then you resign your seat at the next election regardless of the outcome of the other race, and it is filled during the same election. But we should do nothing to stop a politician from doing what we could do as well in our own jobs. So instead of a little common sense in how we deal with these issues we end up in a spitting match over...what? Nothing, that's what.

The people in Washington state can elect who they want for governor, just as the lunatics in my state often do. And instead of focusing on significant policy differences we instead pick a fight over the idea that Inslee is abandoning or quitting his voters. Like the intellectually inert dems just showed though this works both ways. Conservatives like me should instead engage the debate over why Obamacare is already a failure and worse, over why this president is waging his own war on women, over how financially insane this president was to spend well over $4 trillion MORE dollars in order to gain what he claims is 4 million more workers (see, it means--and we are using Obama's own claims about job creation here so the numbers are skewed in his favor improperly already--that EACH job Obama claims to have created has cost the treasury of the USA about a million bucks. We'd have been better off just dumping cash out of helicopters and letting people scramble to pick it up.

Then we should demand of people like Inslee, a man who seems incapable of any disagreement with the president, to defend those policy positions. Inslee has helped Mr. Obama to make this nation far less wealthy than even Mr. Bush was able to accomplish. And so it is with most in DC. Say they are for the 1% if you want, or for the lobbyists and not the people if you want, but the sad fact is that the liberals on this thread will defend these very people and attack republicans. We need to stop this madness. Just because someone with a D after their name wants to pass a bill doesn't make it good, same with those with an R after their name. Medicare Part D--bad law. NCLB--bad law. Obamacare--very bad law. Stimulus--about as bad a law as you could imagine.

The problem here isn't that one side or the other caters to the wrong group, it is that BOTH sides cater to voters' wishes far too much. I want my constitution back, and I will support anyone, R or D, that wants it back too.

So shawdowfest what does that mean for Senators and Congressmen who quit to run for president then?? Does it occurr to anyone that perhaps this guy thinks that because of the current conduct of congress, (you know, the kind thats screwing Americans over!) he and his constiuents would be better suited if he came back to run the state where he can actually be effective rather than being stuck in the useless circus called the current congress?? Don't know anything about this guy but am intrigued as to exactly why he's doing this and I intend to research it rather that make assumptions which we all know makes (^)sses out of those who assume. Don't get directly effected by what he does but am in the neighboring state of Oregon so it's pretty close to home. Time will tell. I am so sick of the backstabbing, name calling, and the hatefilled posts from both sides. Sincerely can't wait until this election year is OVER!! Think we're all losers for the next 4 years no matter who gets elected. Do we really want 4 more years of rebulicians doing every thing they can to discredit and weaken the current POTUS? 4 more years of the public being screwed and the nation being destroyed because one party hates another. That goes both ways with democrats working towards screwing over republicns rather than striving to get this country back on it's feet and working for everybody instead of just the rich and powerful? Current youth doesn't seem to have one public figure left that they can believe in, trust, and respect as an example of putting America before their own agendas. Why can't peole see the bs has to stop and we have to work together as one nation before we all end up speaking chinese.

Lets get them out before they reach retirement on the tax payers dime.

stormer F,

They reach retirement as soon as they get elected in terms of having a guarenteed retirement check.

shakingmy: your statement "they reach retirement as soon as they get elected in terms of having a guarenteed [sic] retirement check" is untrue. Members of Congress are not vested in their retirement system until they have five years of service. That's exactly why Gabby Giffords didn't resign her seat until more than a year after she was shot; she waited until she was vested in the retirement system to do so.

The option of staying until you are eligible for retirement is not always available to our wounded so it should not be available to the members of congress. Good for goose, good for the gander!

shadow: so you're saying that a duly, legally elected representative must resign immediately if s/he is injured or becomes ill? Currently we have two US senators (Johnson D SD and Kirk R IL) who are so incapacitated by strokes that they cannot function in their jobs. Should they resign? Should the three sitting Supreme Court justices who are battling cancer resign? Your argument is just bogus. Wounded servicemen may inded not legally allowed to stay on until retirement, but elected officials can absolutely stay in office until their terms expire.

If a wounded soldier is taken out of the service due to medical reasons, then they are entitled (whoa, more entitlements, tongue in cheek) to medical disability pay, for life, even if they can work on the outside, which they usually can, due to the preferred status they get when government is hiring. That's similar to retirement.

Frank, to quote the reply most used by you right wingers, you are delusional.

Sure wasn't the Democrats that created this mess ...... The GOP played games and purposely created this economy in their attempt to oust Obama with no consideration for the American people they all need to go the more GOP that lose their jobs the better for America ...

And thanks to the Dem governor for "retiring".

Mexico is not going to like hearing that their politicians are being removed.

Rick, Wow are you uninformed or just intellectually dishonest!!! How exactly did the Republicans "create this economy"? What a dumb statement! The Dums have had Congress since 2006 until the country kicked them out in a historic wave election in 2010. They had the Congress and the Presidency from 2008 to 2010, so how again did the Republicans "create this economy"? Was it the budgets that they passed? Oh wait, the Dums haven't passed a budget in 3 years. Was it all of the stimulus spending that actually only went to Unions and some weak one time tax cuts? Was it Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see? Tell me exactly how the Republicans "created this economy" Rick?

iam: Rick can speak for himself, but I'd argue taking a surplus in 2000 that--had we stuck to it, we'd be only two years away from paying off the national debt now--the nation enjoyed then and giving it away in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy so that we went from those surpluses to record, stunning annual deficits, constitutes creating this economy. Oh, and the Repubs did a few more things too: appointing corporate hacks to regulatory agencies and to head FEMA; passing tax loopholes that allows US corporations to write the expenses of off-shoring American jobs off their taxes; perhaps two unfunded wars (one entered into on the basis of a complete lie) added to the mess. I'd give Obama economic credit where credit is due: Dow-Jones up 6000 points over its Bush-era low; saving the US automobile industry and returning it to profitability; twice passing extensions of unemployment benefits in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression; slow but steady job growth without a return of inflation.

So you don't see the extortion of the Unemployment extension as hurting our economy and they did it more than once how many people you think got affected by that single BS. You republicans think everyone is sleeping like you sheep ......

Sorry iamstooppid, but the origins of our current economic mess started well before Obama ever began even running for President -- as far back as the '80s to be honest -- and continued through EVERY president since, Rep or Dem, who sat by as Wall Street and the banks wrote their own rules. Then, when everything went completely to sh1t between 2006 and 2008, they let them write their own plan to save their own @sses and they used billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to give themselves multi-million dollar severance packages and began recovering their lost profits by foreclosing and evicting the same taxpayers who bailed them out and just reselling thier homes with no remorse.

You should just go back to the kid's table over at FauxNews and listen to Uncle Scammity and Bill O'Liely's horror stories about unions and the liberal controlled media. Try to stay out of the adult talking spaces and if you want proof of all the lies and hypocrisy you take as the gospel truth from them, do a minimal amount of web research and check out what they were saying about $4+/gallon gas in 2008 under Bush, and what they're saying now about it under Obama.

"And thanks to the Dem govenor for retiring." Again, another lie from a rightwingnut liar. Good example.

ctvik: "career politician"? You mean like Mitt (who has been running for office his whole adult life) or like Newt (twenty years in Congress) or like little Ricky (two terms in the House and two in the Senate) or like Ron Paul (twenty-four years in Congress)? If you want a President who isn't a "career politician," how about Barack Obama, who served only part of one Senate term?

dsl - "how about Barack Obama, who served only part of one Senate term?"

We are well aware of his inexperience, he reminds us daily.

pjam: can you please be consistent? Do you want people in government who have experience or do you want to get rid of career politicians. You can't have it both ways.

I want somebody who has actually achieved something in life - not an Ivy League lawyer or someone who has had one government job after another. I don't like Mitt Romney because I think he's part of the problem, not part of the solution. He'll just spend us into bankruptcy like the others. But at least governor to President is not a lateral move. At least he has accomplished some things though. He was successful at Bain Capital, even if you find that work distasteful. He ran the winter Olympics. Still this is not an endorsement of Romney.

You are right about those other guys, Newt, Santorum, and Ron Paul. They are just as guilty as the congressman in this article.

As for Obama, he is completely useless and incompetent. He got into Columbia via affirmative action. Won his senate seat after his opponent dropped out due to a sex scandal. Was rewarded the keynote speech at the democratic convention before he even won his senate election, because he was expected to be the democrats' only winner that election night, and was a "President in waiting" during his short term in the senate. He was always in the right place at the right time and everything was handed to him. He never accomplished a damn thing in his life. He is nothing more than a celebrity and no more qualified to be President than Lindsey Lohan.

ctviking,

If you really believe that President Obama "is completely useless and incompetent" then I feel sorry for you. It must be very difficult for you living in a world that you understand so little about.

I understand this world very well. Unlike others, I am not fooled by the "lovely" clothes his wife wears into thinking he is a good President. George W. Bush was a very bad President and Obama is even worse.

I may disagree with you about Obama, but the fact you're not just the normal partisan hack gives you some credibility.

Quote bt ctviking, "I am not fooled by the "lovely" clothes his wife wears into thinking he is a good President."

“Fear
. . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.” Renata Adler

ctvik: I'd argue getting an Ivy League undergraduate degree, getting an Ivy League law degree, managing a successful presidential campaign, writing two bestselling books, etc., constitute "actually achieving something."

ds, it sure beats what you've done.

Actually not, in point of fact, but you don't know anything about my education, now do you?

First out and out lying President who has the media support of not showing his lies. First President who lied about,No Pork,No Lobbyist,Closing Gitmo,Cutting the deficit in Half,Transparency of his administration,Reducing our dependency on foreign oil,Keeping un-employment below 8%,no Tax dollars for abortions,giving illegals government health care,having shovel ready jobs,and having a good education,even a farmer knows all dogs have allegens.

republican, cut and paste much?

I try and read these posts looking for an original idea, not a rehash of something else.

And this has what to do with the article about Jay Inslee??

FO' MO' WITH B.O.!!! If you'ra a Red Neck, you can say he's WHITE. If you're Liberal, you can say he's BLACK. My choice is, he's HAPA! I think this man is the best possible choice for President of the United States since Al Gore was cheated out of his becoming our President.

pacificdem,

Well, I'm in disctict 2, Rob McKenna hasn't changed position 1 in regards to anything. Now that he is running for Governor, he is attracting contributions from direct supporters of the GOP.

His political stances haven't changed, your rhetoric has, because your candidate Jay is farther left than Christine is.

Ps; Jay is also starting out 10 points down statewide to Rob, a republican, in WASHINGTON ???? (5 points down in King County, his home county)

PPSS; I almost forgot, thank you for your supporting Mr McKenna in previous elections.

Seems historically our state elects Dem for Administration and Rep for Attny Gen. Something about loyal opposition. We are mostly independents here in WA.

Wow. Leave it to Liberals to highlight their own inability to grasp reality.

The 2010 midterms were just the beginning of sweeping the Dem party into a well deserved extinction.

Yep, Bo, seems women don't want to be vaginally probed if going for an abortion or called a slut for taking contraception. Meanwhile the GOP holds forums on Women's Health and doesn't invite any women. Gotta love the GOP for chutzpah.

Jay gets it. The current WA Attny Gen doesn't.

J.A, How do you spell PHONY????????

M I T T R O M N E Y

or G I N G R I C H

or R Y A N

or S A N T O R U M

You two extreme leftwing nuts just have to get your name calling in...This article is about Inslee and that is what I commented on....I even voted for him once when he was a conservative...He talked conservative and voted conservative.....He, however did not get along with the radical dems in congress then and decided to move on from his common sense....just for his career. Apparently he had no convictions or honesty about suddenly being for all the stuff he campaigned against fefore....His vote is for sale and he doesnt care what his vote is for....He is just a phony....He pretty much disappeared as a congressman and was just a wall flower that wasnt known for anything....other than to be radically leftwing...

Scared much Chuck? Party-owned to a tee.

They have no idea how we as citizens live! They are all filthy rich. No idea of what goes on here with all us po' folks on the ground level.

At least in WA state, either party gets elected, it's still a balance budget. It's our LAW.

The liberal state government has been testing that law....While the economy was growing at 10%, they were spending an additional 20% on forcasts they thought would never end.....That included free insurance for the children of illegals and numerous biofuel programs(all gone broke by now) and many new state employees and programs....Now they have to cut the basics...Like law enforcement and funding education(back to 1970s levels).....But, they just introduced gay marriage and they are pushing higher taxes and legalizing marijuana(all very progressive and obviously impressive to the media .......The gay marriage thing is the only thing in the news now....

Third word, second sentence. I swear, how can you LIE so easily?

You have always been smoking the wrong stuff...