NYT Dumps Shays; Endorses Farrell!

[stopbush]

When Ms. Farrell first challenged Mr. Shays two years ago, The Times chose to endorse him as a rare voice for moderation within a Republican caucus that seemed bent on distracting the electorate with assaults on gay marriage, flag burning and abortion while running up the deficit, encouraging a ruinous war in Iraq and supporting a White House bent on exalting the power of the president at the expense of the Constitution.

Now it is time to draw the line. Mr. Shays may be a beacon of integrity, but if he is re-elected, he will vote to continue House control by a party that has repeatedly sold out the country to special-interest lobbyists. His position on Iraq, which has gone through tortuous re-evaluations, now seems basically sensible. But if he is re-elected, he will support a Republican leadership that has refused to question even the most ruinous decisions by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld about the conduct of American foreign policy.

Mr. Shays has been a good congressman, but not good enough to overcome the fact that his re-election would help empower a party that is long overdue for a shakeup. This decision is painful, but not difficult, given the high caliber of his opponent. With due respect for Mr. Shays’s service, we strongly endorse Diane Farrell for Congress.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/opinion/25wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Rowdyboy]

1. Its about freaking time....

[fooj]

2. Wow.

...bent on exalting the power of the president at the expense of the Constitution.

Yikes. See ya, Shays.

[TexasLawyer]

3. By the same excellent logic

all Republican congressmen should be fired.

I hope all NYT readers across the country take this to heart.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Wow! That's great news!

:applause:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. It will be spun....

...as the liberal NYT trying to sink another Republican.

Shays is a jellyfish (his "Should I vote to impeach Clinton" town meeting was the height of spineless politics.), but I'd much rather see Nancy Johnson get tossed first.

[aquart]

7. That spin is the whirling in their graves.

Who gives a damn about the rotating dead? Name one of them who shouldn't be in jail.

[gumby]

6. Goodness Gracious!!

The NYT picked up the Clue Phone.

Underneath that smarmy voice and that smarmy pretension, Shays is a vicious authoritarian enabler. I hope he looses BIG.