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Rep Wu May Finally Be Gone
Looks like the latest accusations (this time of rape) may finally force quasi insane Congressman David Wu (D-OR) to resign.
If he does step down it is unlikely the seat would change parties.
10 Responses to “Rep Wu May Finally Be Gone”
I am a Democrat is Wu’s district. I can only hope this will be the end of his ineffective Congressional career.
Sounds like he has a screw loose. Wonder if he’ll end up the first homeless former Congressman?
A tiger suit?
I wonder that these types of political incidents will increase as the U.S. becomes a one party state. Since all that most Congressmen, state senators, state reps need to do to have a long career is get elected and make it through reelection the first time; all that any insane, corrupt, or incompetent politician will need to do is win the Democratic primary (know in some states as the open primary) once.
superdestroyer: agreed. In a political climate where all you have to do is sign some pledge or align yourself with a particular grass-roots group to get elected, then it’ll be real easy to get the insane, the corrupt, and the incompetent.
We’ve lost our way as voters. We vote for irrational reasons, and we get irrational results.
Barky,
I know you are trying to be snarky but remember that there are over 100 Democrats in Congress that face no real competition in an election year whereas there are only about 25 Republicans who face no competition.
Given the demographic and economic changes occuring in the U.S., there will be more absoluely safe seats for the Democrats but fewer safe seats for the Republicans.
That means that there can be more corrupt, insane Democrats in safe seats.
No, I’ve read about Wu before and am perfectly happy to see his back as he is (hopefully) finally going to be out of the House.
I wonder if we can save the Tiger Suit for the National Museum of Congress?
Maybe he’ll Rangle enough support on the “Ethic” Comm., to stay.
gcotharn: great point. First time I saw the story of Wu on TMV was this article. Perhaps I missed it, I’m not on every day …
Superdestroyer, based on facts? Well, I just looked at the 2010 results, and through a manual count, I came up with:
# uncontested
Dems = 5, GOP = 25
# “poorly contested”, meaning the victor won by more than 60% of the vote
Dems = 97, GOP = 121
Now, unless something drastically happened since then, I don’t see “100 to 25″ anywhere there.
Granted, there’s redistricting coming up, but only 16 state legislatures are controlled by Dems vs. 25 controlled by the GOP.
It’s not the Dems that’ll have an ideological inbreeding problem.
Barky,
there is no chance of any member of the CBC losing to a Republican. There is no chance that any Democratic house member in California, Oregon, Washington, Mass, Maryland have zero chance of losing.
IN 2006 and 2008 not one Democratic senator was challenged by the Republicans. 2010 is an outlier, 2006 and especially 2008 are better examples of what happens in elections.
As the U.S. becomes less white and more Hispanics and black, there will be many more unwinnable elections for Repulblicans.