what type of legislator is your congresscritter?

[Torie]

My Congressman is a back bencher, but a highly influential one, who is a mix of a legislator, and promoter (he was in the car dealership trade), who works the conservative talk show circuit, but prudentially avoids getting enmeshed in social issues, preferring to work the economics/fiscal side of things, and to his credit, is against Mittens' gun boats galore plank. I will now have a new one given redistricting, who is a showboater mostly, and not a legislator, and not really very respected or influential, but has been there forever, and has an ideologue background, but moved from being a dope smoking libertarian, to one who thinks porn is one of the US's major challenges, or did, and now has moved on to the idea, that we need to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, and sooner rather than later.

[Torie]

EHN is pretty much an "advertiser." Not being allowed to vote in this Congress once again would make being a "lawmaker" pretty difficult in any event, even if her intent were to be such, which I kind of doubt.

Senator Toomey has been a true leader in his year and a half on the job so far. His freshman year is definitely one of the most impressive for a member of the Senate and he's seen by all sides as a fair, mainstream voice. Words can't describe how proud I am of him.

What has Toomey been up to? I really haven't been following him.

His most press covered feather in his cap was being selected to be on the bipartisan Congressional conference group which was supposed to try to agree to something other than the 1 trillion in automatic cuts by last November (which kick in not until next year it turns out, so the whole thing was smoke and mirrors with no teeth), but failed.  He is obviously respected and trusted by his peers. Phil deserves to be proud really.

[Torie]

if you guys are discussing whose district you will next be put in, then I might as well too. Assuming he wins re-election (which is almost guaranteed) my next rep will be Henry Waxman. He's definitely of the lawmaker variety. He's been in office for 38 years and has chaired two committees.

What hood do you live in, if I may ask?  I know them all - intimately.

[Torie]

if you guys are discussing whose district you will next be put in, then I might as well too. Assuming he wins re-election (which is almost guaranteed) my next rep will be Henry Waxman. He's definitely of the lawmaker variety. He's been in office for 38 years and has chaired two committees.

What hood do you live in, if I may ask?  I know them all - intimately.

Manhattan Beach. Pretty much a mix of liberal counterculture types and residual wasp republicanism.

Indeed - and expensive as hell.