"Primaring"? Is that sort of a cross between "primaries" and "paring"? :)

I don't know anything about Sue Kelly, but just that "issues" page makes me strongly dislike this wench. How proud she is having wasted everyone's money.

It's amazing that the whole anti-pork sentiment making its way through the blogosphere is turning into a whole new campaign to take out Republicans.

Securing federal funds used to be an admirable feat, regardless of party, mainly because the feds take first, and someone in our state has to taketh back.

Now it'c called pork? I call it competition. Kelly is competiting with 100s of other elected officials for a chunk, and if you take the high ground without major party leaders backing you, you lose out.

But let's not implode our party because a Republican got a chunk of "pork" and suddenly Glenn and Hugh and the rest of the righty blogosphere have wagd a jihad against it.

And let's not just look at new candidates because they serve a sudden curiosity to an otherwise mundane local race. Oooh, a gay Republican...

gay, gay day here on AN, eh?

Scott, it's a primary. The strongest Republican candidate should win.

A same-party challenger needs to show the incumbent has failed. Bringing home pork is not a failure, or all the cries against Hillary for failing to do so are dishonest.

We should be asking our representatives to stop sending money to washington in the first place by cutting the federal taxes. But if this guy thinks he'll get into office and suddenly refuse federal pork, we'll see our money if far away lands and our infrastructure abandoned.

Bottom line, attacking pork politicians needs to be across the aisle. We can't just poach our own and claim reform.

Read Sue Kelly's site.
http://suekelly.house.gov/Issues.asp
http://suekelly.house.gov/SmallBusiness.asp

Sounds fiscally fine to me.

Okay, I guess she's not as bad as she looked - her issues lists on the different sites are quite different.

I still think the House would be better off without her. It's not just a case of who gets the loot - someone who's intent on bringing home federal funds is probably more likely to look the other way when other representatives go to get theirs - a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" type deal. It's not a zero-sum game here, and spending isn't just a function of how much tax revenue the government takes in; otherwise we'd have balanced budgets every time.

Also, who is it that's complaining that Hillary isn't bringing in enough federal funds? Doesn't sound conservative to me.

I think primaries are good and healthy for the party. Our party in NY is dying particularly because primaries are so out of the question.

I am against pork collecters. Someone with fiscal discipline can have an effect on others. And I'm certainly not someone who criticisizes Hillary for not bringing home enough pork. That's just crazy.

As Deroy Murdock quotes Herman Cain today:

Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and president of the New Voters Alliance, says a huge part of the problem is that "about 15 percent of Congress leads on free-market issues, about 15 percent lead some committees, try to protect their sandbox, and send some pork back home to get reelected, and the other 70 percent are just happy to be there." This bipartisan caucus of good-time Charlies and Charlottes supports each other's idiotic spending schemes, with the GOP leadership as the grand marshals of the parade.

I'm looking to elected that first 15 percent.