That's a good list.
Here are some other good reasons and benefits.
Also, we were never supposed to keep re-electing irresponsible incumbents, ever.

• Stop Repeat Offenders.


• Don't Re-Elect Them !

And, consider the word politicians.

• poli- (many; more than one; much: abnormally excessive).


• tic (a blood sucking parasite; hanger-on; leech; sponge; freeloader; also see: control, dependence)


• -ians (of; related to; resembling)

Dan, I think there are great number of Congress persons like Tancredo and Boxer whose motivation to seek reelection is the betterment of the nation and its people, and not deserving of the term blood sucking tics. That said, they are mired in party politics and the bureacracy that has built up around party politics that results in Congress spinning its wheels without accomplishing any solutions to the major problems facing our nation. They are ineffective.

Blood sucking tics like Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens who bilks the taxpayers for every penny he can squeeze out of them for bridges to nowhere and the oil industry, of course need to go right along with the ineffective wanna be do gooders.

The trick is to force Congress to recognize that reelection depends upon solving more problems than they create or maintain. Problems like the absence of border security, the deficts and debt, and the abdication of foreign policy shaping and oversight which defers to one man, the President to act as representative of all the American people. The Constitution was quite clear that the oversight for war was to be Congress' responsibility since it is the people who will die in wars and their representatives should have, all along, been looking out for their constituents priorities.

The people must take the responsibility to send this message to Congress: We won't vote incumbents until elections are accountable, fair, and transparent. WE won't vote incumbents until the deficits are ended and our surpluses start paying down our national debt. We won't vote incumbents, until our foreign policy is one of peace making toward those who threaten peace for economic or expansionist goals, and one of surgical devastation toward those who would harm citizens of our great nation.

Dan, I think there are great number of Congress persons like Tancredo and Boxer whose motivation to seek reelection is the betterment of the nation and its people, and not deserving of the term blood sucking tics.

Hmmmmmm m m m . . . those two Congress persons (Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO-R) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA-D)) may not be very good examples. And, unless we can come up with a list of at least 268 persons (half of 535) in congress that are responsible, we're in trouble. And we are. We are in deep [explicative].

OK, blood-sucking parasites is a bit of an exaggeration, but the pork-barrel and abuses of these two congress persons (shown below) reveal irresponsible and unethical behavior that demonstrates that the bar is set so, so very low.

Should they be re-elected?
How much lower can the bar be set?

There are very, very few that aren't irresponsible.. Voters need to take a close look at what politicians are doing. They may be surprised. If voters keep re-electing irresponsible incumbent politicians, then voters deserve what they get.

Look at what they are doing (below). Not only is it merely irresponsible, but it is threatening to the future and security of the nation.

Barbara Boxer:

• Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts. (Jul 1995)


• Voted NO on limit welfare for immigrants. (Jun 1997)


• Voted NO on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)


• Voted NO on across-the-board spending cut. (Oct 1999)


• Voted NO on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt. (Apr 1999)


• Voted NO on eliminating the 'marriage penalty'. (Jul 2000)


• Voted NO on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)


• Voted NO on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity. (Mar 2006)


• Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006)


• Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)


• wanted to put National Guard troops on the border in 1994, but then voted against the Simpson Amendment to S.1664 (in 1996). It was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to 12+ million. (1996)


• Voted in favor of final passage of S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. S. 2611 would dramatically change most occupations and communities in America with the largest movement of foreign workers in world history. Specifically, S. 2611 would: reward approximately 10.2 million illegal aliens with an amnesty allowing them to permanently take American jobs and become U.S. citizens; entice millions more foreign workers to illegally enter our communities, crowd the housing and schools, take the jobs and depress the wages because they reasonably can believe they eventually will be given an amnesty, too; (2006)


• claimed that repeal of Roe "means a minimum of 5,000 women a year will die" from illegal abortions. However, that is a 69-year-old figure dating to a time before penicillin and the birth-control pill. Experts say nowhere near that many women were dying from abortion complications even in the years just before Roe made abortions legal nationwide.


• $60 million for the Rediscover America Act of 2001: To help restore consumer confidence in the travel industry by authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Travel and Tourism Promotion Bureau. Sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Robert Underwood (D-Guam). S. 1505, H.R. 3157. (2001)


• voted for $3,000,000 added by the Senate for projects in the state of Senate Interior Appropriations subcommittee member Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), including $2,000,000 for the acquisition of Bair Island at Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge and $1,000,000 for Salton Sea recovery planning and bioremediation efforts. (1998)


• voted for $9,750,000 added by the Senate and conference for 13 projects in the state of Senate VA/HUD Appropriations subcommittee member Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), including: $2,000,000 for economic revitalization in the city of Compton; $1,000,000 for the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana; $1,000,000 for a wetlands potable water reuse program for the city of West Palm Beach; and $500,000 for a training program in international commerce, environmental management and business ethics at the University of San Francisco's Center for International Business Education. (1998)


• voted for $2,600,000 added in conference in the state of Senate VA/HUD Appropriations subcommittee member Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.): $1,500,000 for the Sacramento Urban League Workforce Development Center; $350,000 for Marin, one of America's richest counties, for the development of a cultural and community center; $500,000 for the city of Lancaster, evenly divided between relocation of the 50th District Agricultural Association Fairgrounds and construction of the National Soccer Activity Center; and $250,000 for the city of Stockton to acquire and rehabilitate the Old Stockton Hotel.

Tom Tancredo:

• Voted NO on campaign finance reform banning soft-money contributions. (Feb 2002)


• Voted NO on banning soft money and issue ads. (Sep 1999)


• Voted NO on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox. (May 1999)


• Abolish IRS and replace the income tax with National sales tax. (Jul 2003)


• Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)


• Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)


• Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)


• Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)


• Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer. (May 1997)


• Supports requiring schools to allow prayer. (Jan 2001)


• Voted YES on treating religious organizations equally for tax breaks. (Jul 2001)


• Voted YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror. (Nov 2001)
  (The 1st Amendment clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;").


• Told a radio show host that the U.S. could "take out" Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons. The interviewer said: "You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said. "Yeah," Tancredo responded.


• said the Tom DeLay allegations "lack merit" and were "trumped up." (no partisan favoritism there, eh?)


• spent more taxpayer money than all but five of his colleagues on car leases last year, but he won't give any specifics as to where he went and what he did.

David,
You are right. Not all policians are blood-sucking parasites. It's wrong to denigrate any profession. I should have said many politicians (not all) are inrresponsible, and some (not all) are not much better than a blood-sucking parasite. So, the definition above applies only to some politicians. But, the question is: How may politicians are responsible? It appears that number may be very small. But, perhaps, if voters oust a significant percentage (e.g. 15% or more? 60% would be nice) of incumbents, the remaining incubments may start behaviing more responsible?

You are right Dan, they may not be the best examples. Tancredo seeks to protect American workers and quality of life for Americans against hordes of illegal immigrants. In that regard, he is motivated by the nation's and the people's interests. However, in order to champion such efforts he has had to buy into the politically corrupt party/reelection money bureaucracy. And while his intentions are worthy, his actions are compromised by his accession to the system of corruption which dictates his alleigance be first to his party, 2nd to his reelection, and lastly to his consituents and the nation's future well being.

This past Christmas, my father, Nate Hughes finished a book that
he had been writing for years.. I have always marveled at his vision
beyond what I deemed to be important in my day-to-day activities.
Although his book is based on his own theory of the birth of our
great planet Earth, in the last chapter of the book he includes a
poem that he wrote several years ago. I bring it to your attention
now, only because of this anti-incumbent movement that seems
to be sweeping America. You can find more about this book and
the poem by visiting my father's website at http://grandpanate.com/.

AS MIGHTY ROME FELL, AMERICA COULD DIE. WHETHER IT
FALLS OR NOT, IS UP TO YOU AND I.

I worried and stewed, but by and by
came up with a plan, where you and I,
can put America on a road, toward a brand new high.
Just blame the politicians, get blood in your eye,
and Vote Against The Incumbents. Vati, Vati!

Now just voting won't do it, we've got to VATI!
That's v, a, t, i with a long "a" and a long "i".
Vote against the incumbents, and you vati.
Things will never get better, until we vati.
Vote against the incumbents, VATI! VATI!

There is no time to set and sigh,
America will fail, without you and I.
The time has come, we must do or die.
We must all vote, and we must VATI!
Vote against the incumbents, VATI! VATI!

Things won't just get better, by and by,
unless the apethetic voters, you and I,
hit those polls with blood in our eye,
and not only vote, but wisely vati.
Vote against the incumbent, VATI! VATI!

We must not buy, some political lie,
the America we love, is about to die,
Politicians no longer serve you and I,
but all acquiesce, to the powers that buy.
Vote against the incumbents, VATI! VATI!

The newly elected may want to serve you and I,
until that powerful pac money cathces their eye,
then party loyalty becomes thier big lie.
As they vote with the pac, for thie piece of the pie.
Vote against the incumbent, VATI! VATI!

Out congressmen and Senators are nigh as apt to die,
as meet defeat at the polls by you and I.
They know we'll vote for them, they won't even try,
America is declining, democracy's gone awry.
Vote against the incumbent, VATI! VATI!

Waxing fat on the apathy, displayed by you and I,
our politicians become hogs and Washingtons a sty.
But we can change all that, in a blink of an eye,
if we just get off our apathy and decide to vati.
Vote against the incumbent, VATI! VATI!

If just one out of twenty of us would vati,
we'd get nigh a forth of that Washington sty.
Now that might be too few to help you and I,
but we'd darn sure make the rest of them shy!
Vote against the incumbents! VATI! VATI!

And when "Foul! Foul!" the politicians cry,
and charge that; "Great careers will sadly die."
Stand up and look them straight in the eye,
And say "Losing only makes the truly great try."
Vote against the incumbents, VATI! VATI!

From the County Coroner to that Washington sty,
if you don't love the incumbent, always vati.
Hwelp turn America toward a brand new high,
teach your children and friends that they must vati.
Vote against the incumbent, Vati! Vati!

If the state of America makes you want to cry,
then help start a revolution where no on has to die.
Our party loyalty sent elections so far awry,
we can fix that error, just revolt and vati!
Vote against the incumbents, VATI! VATI!

Part your 2nd and 3rd finger; that "V" means vati.
Send this to a friend, who you think will comply.
Let's all band together, and give 'em a black eye.
VATI! VATI, and a hearty bye-bye.

Written years ago by my father, Nate Hughes, Wyoming.

Cindy Millines Florida

Cindy, a forward seeing person your Dad.