Saw an interesting article in the Daily Times today regarding Congressman Gilchrest's growth. No, nothing medical, but I'm sure in the liberal punditry opinion, he's "grown" because he's become a "maverick" against his party by supporting the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 55) for pulling our troops out of Iraq on a date certain. Now he's in with the likes of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (he of the "Department of Peace") and Rep. Barbara Lee of California (lone vote against defending ourselves after 9-11 - more on her here.)
While he's been re-elected pretty easily here, I haven't seen much to recommend Gilchrest to the rank-and-file GOP member on the Eastern Shore. This announcement comes right after his support for repealing "don't ask, don't tell" in the military. Two controversies in two months, not good for a guy from what probably isn't the safest GOP district.
Also noticed that the big Crisfield Crab and Clam Bake drew politicians like flies, with two large omissions: Governor Ehrlich and Lt. Governor Steele. I hope that this is just because it's an off-year and they don't want to burn their people out arranging a trip.
One thing I find interesting about some events down here: they do a lot of these events on weekday afternoons. Logically, if Crisfield wanted to draw a crowd, to me this would be a Saturday event. But, if you want it to not be as "touristy" I suppose a Wednesday makes sense. Guess it's my background being from an area not as tourist-dependent (good or bad.)
Now, to toss my two cents in about John Roberts (the judge, not the CBS News anchor.) He sounds like a good choice - must be because the Dems are already trying to fry him. The pollitorial is already out - Americans "say" he should answer on whether he'd overturn Roe v. Wade. (Ok, the poll question was "state his position on abortion", but we know that code word.) This will be fun, because the same poll had a plurality of 36% strongly agreeing the Senate should confirm him, basically sight unseen.
And yet another attempted bombing in London. No major injuries, but a shaken city gets more nervous. Wouldn't be surprised if this were a copycat myself, but one has to wonder about how much Londoners can take. It's going to have an impact on tourism if these bus bombings continue. Not that I'll be doing it in the near future, but London always seemed like it would be a cool city to visit for me...I'm sure millions of Americans feel the same. But why take a chance?
