Just another example of the double standards we have come to ecxpect from Smith and His GOP friends. Its getting that over to the electorate that is difficult.

It is really amazing to watch the double standard unfold on these pages. When the President "sticks to his guns" in the War on Terror and says you are either with us or against us, he is beat by the left. Conservatives are told the world exists in shades of gray and you must look at the bigger picture. Now, you attack Senator Smith when he does look at the bigger picture.

The Senator attempted to get the oil drilling package out of the larger bill but he was unsuccessful. In the end, he did support the larger bill, the details of which Kari conveniently left out, that would cut almost $40 billion in spending and help reduce the deficit. Again, the left attacks when the deficient goes up and when it comes down.

In short, Senator Smith did the right thing. He attempted to remove the drilling provisions and when that didn't work he looked at more that just black and white. He looked at the bigger picture.

I suggest that some on the left take a deep breath and apply consistent standards even when they disagree with the outcome. To do otherwise is hypocritical and just plain wrong.

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Suggest all you want to the left, you are nuts.

Gordon Smith is a traitor to Oregon, Smith is a traitor to America. The blood on him shows his way of killing thousands of soldiers trying to hide that Smith is a liar.

I disagree with the headline saying Gordon traitor "caves to ...," let's see, which one is it this time ... oh, yeah, "Big Oil" The phrase 'caves to' implies he ever 'stood up to.'

Smith is a liar. He stands for nothing. He gets rich on the blood and deaths of Oregonians and Americans. Hey, and he's Ron Wyden's buddy, and Wyden ain't much better -- him rich, others die.

Out of Iraq now, full and total. NO BASES. Senators, your lies to kill people are your immortal shame.

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Hate to have to say this, but if six Republicans broke ranks on the ANWR vote and it failed 48-51, then some Democrats must have voted in the opposite direction. Where's party discipline when we need it?

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Jenni, it is much worse than "bull." It is belligerent, it is proto-nazi. It is a cry for help signifying he no longer controls or steers the course he is on, his own destiny, Oregon's destitution. All his words are now lies.

Simth no more has moral or legal right to be in the Senate, (nevermind voting for anything), since he has betrayed National Guards, Oregonians have been killed and maimed wantonly by senator's cowardly and complicit silence, and Simth is guilty of war crimes treason against America's democracy for selling out or abandoning his sworn duty to keep oversight of the corrupt Executive wasting public money.

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I believe he is chairman of a subcommittee for southeast europe affairs within the full committee's global purview, maybe the Senate Select Intelligence Committee.

If this is so, he has oversight special responsibility regarding such countries as Greece, Albania, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria.

This, last week, blows the lid off what Simth conspires to hide:

November 4, 2005 -- Secret Prisons Opposed by Pentagon Lawyers. The network of secret prisons established by the CIA and increasingly being run by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's parallel paramilitary and intelligence force, were opposed by top Pentagon lawyers. The entire gamut of Bush administration policies on prisoners runs afoul of U.S. and international law claim the military counsels. [...] The European Commission has requested reports on secret prisons from three of the countries identified by yesterday's WMR: Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

November 3, 2005 -- The leak of information about a network of CIA-run secret prison camps .... The truth is that the names are being withheld to prevent an investigation by the European Court of Human Rights and European Union Human Rights Commission. Nevertheless, the European Union is now investigating the secret prisons. The likely locations of the secret prisons, according to informed sources, are Poland, Romania, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Croatia.

... Source: Wayne Madsen Report(dot)com

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