Human Events "Man of the Year" is F. James Sensenbrenner

Man of the Year: Jim Sensenbrenner
by Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted Dec 22, 2006

Lord Acton’s famous observation that power tends to corrupt has been lamentably borne out by the recent history of the Republican Party. When it finally gained control of both the White House and Congress, it turned away from some of the very principles that had secured it majority status. Yet Acton’s axiom has not been reflected in the behavior of at least one Republican leader in the House of Representatives. He is Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, who has served for the past six years as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and whom the editors of Human Events have chosen as Man of the Year for 2006.

Conservative Principles
First elected in 1978, Sensenbrenner has served in Congress for almost three decades without setting aside his core principles—and they are decidedly conservative principles. He is a fiscal conservative. He is a pro-life, pro-marriage social conservative. He has been hawkish, but not reckless, in his approach to foreign affairs and national security. And he has a profound respect for the division of powers built into the Constitution.

In this Congress, Sensenbrenner valiantly spurred House Republicans to use their power as the majority party to thwart President Bush’s illegal-alien amnesty plan. At the same time, he effectively promoted serious border security and immigration reform proposals of his own.

Sensenbrenner was able to do this because he has never believed, or acted as if, Congress ought to be a rubber stump for the President. Not when Clinton was President. Not when either Bush was President. Not even when Reagan was President.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18622

:applause: :sarcasm: :woohoo: :sarcasm:

:puke:

The Magna Carta established Habeas Corpus as a right in 1215.

and Feingold is beyond me (and I am originally from WI).

...can be the home of both Bob LaFollette and Joe McCarthy, and the same way it can be the home of the only city to have two progressive Socialist mayors, and yet was also a hotbed of the German American Bund before WWII. Oh, and the most cannibals-per-capita of any state, as far as I know.

Wisconsin just likes to live by one of Walt Whitman's aphorisms:

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."


(speaking as a lifelong cheesehead).

I was thinking of Joe McCarthy when I wrote the post. At least Senator Feingold was elected statewide, whereas Congress-critter "Tex" hails from a rather conservative part of the state. On the other hand, Tommy Thompson was elected governor many times statewide, but on the bright side, his presidential aspirations will likely go nowhere.

highly concentrated. I worked on Bryan Kennedy's campaign this year (he ran against Sensenbrenner in the 5th CD) and he did only 4% better than last time. There are impenetrable red areas in the western and northern suburbs of Milwaukee, although the closer suburban areas are turning blue, thanks to some very hard work by Bryan and other Dems in those areas.

Milwaukee and Madison are high population and very blue, but the rest of the state isn't - rural areas are a mix. Fortunately, we have 2 Dem Senators and a Dem governor. The Repubs have run some extreme right wingers for those seats and it just doesn't go over very well. Senator Kohl is a moderate. Feingold is liberal, but people on the right can see that he has real leadership, and they respect him (and vote for him) even when they disagree.

IMHO.

Let's read what Sensenbrenner, as an impeachment manager, had to say during Bill Clinton's Presidency:

The failure to convict Clinton on the impeachment charges, said Sensenbrenner, "will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations."

Offering some of the toughest rhetoric of the day, Sensenbrenner concluded: "When a cancer exists in the body politic, our job, our duty, is to excise it."
(snip/...)

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/14/impeachment/

:puke:

They probably have a monument in mind to build in his honor: probably in the shape of a helicopter, like the ones he had his people use to throw out suspected "leftists," over the ocean, rivers, lakes, and mountain tops.

Right-wingers are known for their marvelous creativity.

Hey, there is such fierce competition right now I don't think he'd even be in the top five!