FrankWolfWatch

Working on New Year resolutions, I have decided to continue writing about Congressman Wolf and to do so with greater frequency, as if lesser frequency was possible.

With the year ending, there are two significant events from 2006 to comment on in summary:

1) Rep. Wolf was re-elected over a challenge by a Georgetown professor who contributed to the Hillarycare debacle.  I supported neither but voted write-in for a Loudoun County resident who always champions individual rights.  In the election results, I noted that neither Rep. Wolf nor Davis had any coattails for former Senator Allen.  I suppose that Congressman Wolf’s advocacy of federal spending, opposition to capitalism, and appeasement of Muslims protesting raids against local charities supporting terrorism was sufficient to get him re-elected so that he could retain his diminished position within the congressional minority.

2) Congressman Wolf has been getting a lot of ink recently over his sponsorship of the Iraq Study Group.  Personally, I opposed this as an abdication of his responsibility as a congressman, because he was dodging a tough one by passing the buck to a bi-partisan unelected paper writing commission.  As the State Department is responsible for the failures in Iraq, as the responsible Appropriations subcommittee chairman, our congressman should have been more on the ball regarding State's repeated failures.  However, this shift of accountability in Congressman Wolf’s knee jerk reaction to all problems that he and the Congress lack the integrity to confront personally.  Will the failure of the Iraq Study Group help Rep. Wolf see the errors of his ways?  Unlikely.  I have intended to a detail review of the ISG report and perhaps this is the correct forum as Rep. Wolf is irresponsibly for that debacle.

Although his lack of performance in office has cost him my support at the ballot box, I wish Rep. Wolf good luck overcoming his problem causing flaws in the new year and the new Congress.

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