Lamar Joins List

One public pronouncement, conveying one decision, is enough for me to never again vote for sham Republican US Senator Lamar Alexander. Alexander has always seemed uncomfortable around his conservative supporters; he sees himself above that madding fray, firmly in the camp of those elevated moderates and he has irrefutably demonstrated he does not back Tennessee values by announcing yesterday that he will vote for the confirmation of judicial activist, Hispanic supremacist, hard leftist Sonia "Soviet" Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. I will support anyone to Alexander's right who tries to primary him and I will vote Libertarian, third party, or not at all, if Alexander secures the Republican nomination. He has always been a bit too enviro for my taste-a global warming "greenie weenie". Alexander has been a leader on the warpath against file sharing as he pretends to care about royalties for musicians but he never stood with the artists when they complained about receiving pennies on each CD sale as their labels made several dollars. I have always thought file sharing conceptually was like passing a paperback on after one has read it or using a public lending library, but Alexander feigned some interest in protecting musicians' royalty rights. In so many aspects, Alexander is just a shill for corporate interests, whether it is advancing industry agendas through legislation supposed to protect the environment but actually aimed at boosting General Electric and other giants who have found a profit angle in going green, or whether playing at being the champion for singers and songwriters when Lamar is basically out to advance the corporations behind music labels with any benefit derived by artists being purely incidental. Now, the die is cast, with his support for Sotomayor, Alexander has burned his bridges to conservative Tennessee.