TIME’s 10 Best Senators
Want to make the list? Be ‘independent’. That seems to be the lesson as Specter, Snowe, McCain, and…Ted Kennedy(????) all make the cut for TIME’s 10 best list. Maybe that should read be independent, IF you’re a Republican. Read the rest here…
Your leaving off Time’s inclusion of John Kyl is telling, Mark. The indignation grabbed me for a second, but it seems a bit disingenuous now that I see the whole list.
That having been said, it’s certainly worth noting that 60% of the top 10 list is Republicans. Surely if Time was trying to be some insidious liberal hotbed, they could have come up with some more Democratic senators to put up there. I’m sorry, Mark, but this post just seems like reaction for reaction’s sake.
I’m not really indignant, I really meant this to be more of an ‘FYI’. Having said that, I was struck by the fact that McCain, Snowe, AND Specter are on a list that, after all, only has ten people on it…
It says something that I would find it very difficult to vote for at least six of them, and possibly as many as eight. Maybe the fact that I have been involved in, or surrounded by, politics for about 40 years mean I have a “different” view.
It’s disappointing that Time’s metric for how successful a senator you are seems to be based on how much government money you spend.
Indeed – many of the profiles were quite alarming (God, that Ted Kennedy is almost singlehandedly responsible for half of the boondoggles we have to turn around at some point)…