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The Seattle Times and the WA 9th District Congress Race

The Newspaper That Once Endorsed "W" Endorses Adam Smith, Again

Surprise, surprise, surprise!  The Seattle Times endorsed Adam Smith, today.  This is why nothing ever changes in Washington, D.C., because institutions like the Times and people, generally, keep making the same predictable decisions when it comes to Congressional representation, and then have the gall to complain about the moribund, dismal Congress that exists.  The Times throws around or implies terms like "perennial" and "not credible," but credibility, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder and if anything is perennial, it is these same, old "Wall Street" functionaries in Congress pulling the wool over our eyes time after time and holding on to the reins of government incessantly, while chaos breaks out on the border, high unemployment continues unabated, the nation's infrastructure erodes, foreign policy goes from inexplicably mindless to shambles, and citizens have become so cynical about the government that hundreds of thousands stop voting every year.  Give the Times some credit, though, at least they acknowledged what Reliability and The Coalition has been saying for weeks, Doug Basler (R) is hardly waging a campaign.  He and Rivers could not even show up for a debate.  Republicans and non-Smith Democrats have nothing to lose by going with Mark Greene and the Citizens Party this year, the one and only chance to defeat Adam Smith in 2014.

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