Democrats do not have the balls to get anything done.

Wexler has to be one of the most repugnant members of Congress - no small feat, with so many contenders.

There are others who are as far left as he is, but none with the evangelical fervor he brings to his own special brand of hyper-partisanship. I remember during the last two years of the Clinton Administration, before which I had been blessed by unfamiliarity with this cretin, when Wexler was on every cable news show that would have him to defend Clinton. One got the impression he would have elbowed Monica out of the way to scuff his own kneepads.

The problem of course nationally is that redistricting is not going to happen till after 2010 and then it will cement safe districts mostly for Dems and a few for the Pubs left. Unfortunately, the House will still be in Dem hands. Wexler could not lose in his district because all his voters are solid lefty Dems. It is what it is. Ca. tried to change the districts and could not get enough ballot signatures to even put it to a vote. That is how far Left and Dem Ca. has gone. Unless the Pubs get tougher and more national in its outlook, we are doomed to even more socialist pacifists.

I lived in Wexler's district from 1996-2002. As you can guess, Florida districts are pretty fluid. They move around every redistricting.

However from 1976-2002 I was registered to vote in a district that was represented by congressmen in a straight line.

First Paul Rogers(76-78) I remember little about him
Dan Mica a moderate democrat from 78-88. I met Dan in the mid 80's.
Harry Johnston a moderate liberal democrat 88-96
Then Wexler

In the beginning this was a fiercely contested house seat. Mica had serious challengers in 78, 80, and 84. The Democratic tendencies of the district kept saved Mica. Mica ran for the senate in 88. Johnston ran to suceed him. A county commissioner named Ken Adams opposed Johnston. Adams had a name and plenty of backing. He lost 60-40. The seat hasn't been seriously contested by a republican since.

Note during this time I moved twice and did a stint in the Navy but remained registered to vote in Florida, using m y parent's home address. Went from Lighthouse Point to Lake Worth from 76-89, with an intermediate step in Boca Raton. Despite moving about 25 miles north and how fluid the district was, I kept these congress people as my house representative.

The district has changed, its gotten more liberal. I liked Mica, liked Johnston too. Wexler......you guess what I think about him.

BTW now I live in the district represented by Ron Klein and formerly by Clay Shaw.

Bill

Wexler, or ANY Democrat "bamboozled" into invading Iraq? Hey, I am not a senator or congressman, have no connections nor was privy to any intelligence, and don't even claim to be the world's brightest person. Yet I knew Saddam was no threat, and the invasion had nothing to do with WMDs.

Not to mention that recent developments have made "embryonic stem cell research" superfluous, of course. If Congressional Democrats couldn't throw money at obsolete ideas, how would they fill all their earmark quotas?

ProfessorVP ~ Of course, Bush clearly stated we needed to take out Saddam BEFORE he became an imminent threat, and WMDs were but one of six justifications he presented to the UN in October of 2002, but don't let little details get in the way of your self-congratulation.