What a clown

I'm having a good laugh reading Don Sherwood's (R-Tunkhannock Strangler) new website.

The front page starts off with an attack on his opponent:

Chris Carney's cronies are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on deceitful television ads attacking Don Sherwood's record on the minimum wage and Congressional pay.

His bio page is a contradiction:

Don Sherwood is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, which oversees federal spending and writes the annual laws funding the federal government. He has worked to make sure the federal government is a partner in deserving projects in the 10th District, while working to keep federal spending in check.

After saying he is keeping spending in check he brags about all the bacon he has brought home:

Don Sherwood has brought millions of dollars to the 10th District for local roads, sewer and water systems. He has secured federal funding for area colleges and universities, parks and historic sites. He has worked to protect open spaces and invest in environmental restoration programs.

He does know a lot about pork. Name one program you have ever voted to eliminate or cut Congressman.

But of course he has voted to cut taxes. He doesn't mention that he has been part of the biggest expansion of federal spending since the 1960's without finding a way to pay for it. Resulting in the biggest deficits in our history.

Congressman Sherwood cosponsored and voted for legislation to eliminate the death tax for more than 99 percent of all Americans. Unless Congress acts, in 2011 the estate tax exemption will drop to $1 million per person and the maximum estate tax rate will increase to 55 percent putting asset-rich and cash-poor farms and small businesses in real jeopardy.

That's just a lie. Very few people pay the estate tax and farms and small businesses are protected. The same question, what spending do you want to cut to pay for this giveaway to Paris Hilton?

Congressman Sherwood is firmly committed to protecting Social Security and will keep the promise of Social Security so that no beneficiary and no one nearing retirement will face any reduction in their earned benefits. Congressman Sherwood believes that we can and must protect Social Security without increasing payroll taxes or the retirement age even as we keep the promise of Social Security benefits.

What about the rest of us? Sounds like he wants to privatize the system.

Two things that are not mentioned struck me as odd. Nowhere on the site does he say he is a Republican. And not a word about Iraq.