Statecraft Informer

Congressman Don Sherwood, R-PA, and his re-election campaign are coming down to the wire, and his wife, Carol, hopes her recent letter to district voters will help them forgive her husband for his indiscretions… As she has.

Faced with a tough opponent, Democratic challenger Chris Carney, running a “family values� oriented campaign, it’s clear Sherwood had to do something.

A four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Sherwood, 65, has admitted to a five-year affair with 30-year-old Cynthia Ore. On the bright side, however, he denies Ore’s allegations that he assaulted her repeatedly during their extra-marital relationship. We’ll probably never know the truth because Sherwood and Ore reached an out-of-court settlement last November, and we all know how confidential they’re supposed to be.

Anyway, Sherwood’s wife, Carol, has joined the fray, ala Hillary Clinton (no relation to Tammy Wynette), and stands by her lying, cheating, husband, and accuses Carney of being the real hurtful one running for office.

Rumor has it that another U.S. Congressman, perhaps a Republican, and maybe from Illinois, may soon be leaving politics because like ex-Florida Rep. Mark Foley, he had inappropriate (doesn’t anyone know the difference anymore?) relations with a congressional page.

Is it any wonder then, that Rolling Stone, in a cover story, calls the 109th Congress “the worst ever?�

“In the past six years they have castrated the political minority, abdicated their oversight responsibilities mandated by the Constitution, enacted a conscious policy of massive borrowing and unrestrained spending, and installed a host of semipermanent mechanisms for transferring legislative power to commercial interests. They aimed far lower than any other Congress has ever aimed, and they nailed their target.”

Okay, RS, but how do you really feel?

1 Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
2 James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI)
3 Don Young (R-AK)
4 William Jefferson (D-LA)
5 Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
6 Tom Tancredo (R-CO)
7 Dick Pombo (R-CA)
8 Curt Weldon (R-PA)
9 Hal Rogers (R-KY)
10 Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)

Notice the above, selected by the magazine as their picks for the 10 worst representatives, includes only one Democrat, William “I wonder if the FBI is watching� Jefferson. Good news for the loyal opposition, you say?

Could be. But wait!

Although a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll does indicate voters overwhelmingly prefer Democrats, 52% to 37 %, over Republicans in the November 7 elections, it also shows that “voters’ approval of Congress has fallen to 16% from 20% since early September, while disapproval has risen to 75% from 65%. That 16% equals the worst showing for congressional approval by voters in fourteen years.

So let’s just see who actually goes out to vote on the 7th, the people who are truly disgusted by congress, or the ones who simply adore their own representatives. If we’re really, really lucky, maybe this time people will realize the time has come to vote only NON-Republicans and NON-Democrats into office this time around.

I ask you, can they possibly do any worse by us?