"In the wake of Sen. Larry Craig's swift downfall, Sen. Gordon Smith says
he is ready to be the new go-to guy in the U.S. Senate for timber and other
Northwest natural-resource industries. Smith, R-Ore., said he feels 'very keenly
the responsibility' to help not only loggers, but ranchers, farmers and miners.
'My plate just got bigger,' Smith said in a telephone interview Tuesday, 'and I
will work day and night for rural folks.'"
This statement is clearly poorly worded, and if it had been said better would have been easier to understand. If anyone said that they were going to have to work harder to represent the interests of labor in congress, everyone would cheer. What he is saying is that he is going to have to work harder to represent the interests of industry in congress. There are some who act like industry doesn't deserve to have its interests defended, but that is just silly. Do they have the right to buy votes, no - but then neither do parties that represent the left. To assume that all corruption in Washington comes from corporations and industry is just naive.
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