If not for Smith and Jenson, these job-killing taxes would not have passed.
Smith sold his vote to the Democrats, receiving political favors in exchange, while abandoning his fellow Republicans, his caucus leadership and the most basic principles of our party.
Jenson voted for every major tax increase in the special session -- gas tax, health care tax, vehicle registration fees and more. But it was his vote on these two irresponsible tax increases that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
So who were Smith and Jenson representing when voting for these tax increases?
- The cost of breaking ranks with your party, by Bob Tiernan, OregonLive.com, March 19, 2010.
2. When Edward Snowden surfaced just days after releasing documents last week detailing the National Security Agency’s wholesale data-mining of Internet content and telephone traffic, the very thing he wanted to avoid happened: There was a sudden shift from a riveting focus on unparalleled threats to privacy — and the way the Bush and Obama administrations have largely gutted the Fourth Amendment’s constitutional protections from unreasonable search and seizure — to Snowden himself.
The media and members of Congress largely turned its magnifying glass on the putative criminality of the whistleblower and thus gave themselves permission to step more gingerly around the glaring elephant in the room: that the United States has poured billions of dollars into building a vast capacity to spy on U.S. citizens — and people around the globe — secretly, comprehensively and virtually without accountability.
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