UNDERNEWS: Race to the bottom: Politicians

December 20, 2014

Race to the bottom: Politicians

The worst, based on actions & statements over the past year

Republicans

Ted Cruz
Mike Huckabee
John Boehner
Marco Rubio
Paul Ryan
Mitch McConnell
John McCain
Peter King
Chris Christie
Scott Walker
Rand Paul

Democrats

Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Arne Duncan
Eric Holder
John Kerry
Bill Clinton

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: It is a lot easier to list those who should not be on the list:

Ron Paul

Bernie Sanders

Politicians who remained able to love people.; December 20, 2014 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Worst performance of the year: the Tricky Dickie Award goes to .... Chuck Schumer in the senate amendment hearing, posturing that something must be done to stop corporate spending in elections. His emotional final plea came after Ted Cruz and Floyd Abrams dropped in, to remind all that the Kochs own at least 25 states in opposition. Whereas the Dems had the votes to abrogate Citizens United and reinatate McCain-Feingold, but didn't want to assert Congressional power.; December 20, 2014 at 4:19 PM

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