I must confess I'm in a minority. More than 80% of Republicans voted for Congressman Mike Simpson in the GOP Primary and 71% voted to re-elected Simpson over Yellow Dog Democrat Deborah Holmes.

Yet, I'm that statistical anomaly. I'm a Republican and I don't like Mike Simpson. When it comes out in conversation, the idea is pooh poohed or a fellow conservative will sympathize and admit there's little to be done about Simpson other than wait for him to tire of serving in Congress. As Simpson is almost 59, I could be in my 50s before Simpson finally decides he'sbeen in Congressenough.

It's a haunting thought. Of course, for most folks in our District, Simpson isn't spectacular but he's fine. At the Conservative Leadership Conference, I even talked to two Congressmen from other states and asked if they could do anything about Simpson and Congressman John Shadegg (R-Az.) assured me that Simpson was a good Congressman. Of course, Shadegg went and voted for the $700 billion TARP bailout along with Simpson, so I'm not sure how right he was.

What's my problem? Why can't I be satisfied with my Congressman like the vast majority of the District. My problem is what I know. I know too much about Simpson's record.

I have to commend Simpson as a very smart politician. As you look across his career in Congress, he's steered clear of votes that would antangonize the Republican base. Simpson will never be challenged by Club for Growth, Focus on the Family Action, or any other national organization. On the big votes, Simpson delivers.

On the small votes, it's another matter, and by small votes we're talking in the tens of billions of dollars in some cases. In 2007, when President Bush was vetoing overbloated appropriation bills, Simpson was mostly AWOL voting time and time again to override the President's veto and let the pork flow.

As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Simpson's fingerprints have been all over nearly ever pork-filled bill of the Bush Administration. In 2007, on the RePORK Card, Simpson supported 48 of 50 pork-filled projects that could have been eliminated for a whopping 4% anti-pork scored compared to 43% for the Average Republican.

Simpson's biggest abominable vote to date was his vote for the $700 billion TARPbill which beget a multitude of fiscal sins. This past week he voted for another $2 billion for the Cash for Clunkers program which I guess will make the foreign owners of Kia and Subaru happy, but I doubt it'll do a whole lot for the American economy, other than set up a wave of auto loan defaults as the economy begins to worsen. As Senator Jim DeMint said on television, his Grandkids can't afford this bailout. Yet, Mike Simpson is glad to partake in various acts of intergenerational theft.

Simpson has made it clear that he believes his job as a Congressman is to bring home the bacon. To fill our District with pork projects. It is not. It is his job to represent the people of Idaho's second district in federal decisions.

It is true, he brings home projects to the district, but is this morally right? For example, one of Simpson's earmarks was for the Discovery Center, $1 million. The Discovery Center is a fine place to visit, but should my mother in Montana have to pay taxes to subsidize a museum that only serves Idahoans?

Of course, it'll be pointed out that these other states have their pet projects too. Indeed, they do. Why should we pay for anyone's strictly parochial project? If neither private donors, nor the City, County, or State Government find a parochial program worth spending their constituents money on, why should strangers in another state fund something that's obviously not very important to the people in the state.

Our problem in America with our debt and the size of government is we have Mayors who seek federal money they ought not to ask for and Congressmen who give it to them. As long as continue to have this problem, we'll continue down the road to national bankruptcy and when we look back at the road to ruin our nation has travelled we'll see it was death by a thousand paper cuts. There's a small part of me that hopes if this crisis come, Simpson will be in Congress when it happens as he'll have to help clean the mess he has made.

Why do Idahoans concerned about the National Debt and high government continue to re-elect Mike Simpson. Maybe, they don't know Simpson is a former Porker of the Monthand a porker for all seasons. Or maybe it's Americans cogitative dissonance on the national debt that allows to celebrate big government grants, never thinking that we're selling our children into slavery for bobbles.

Simpson is unlikely to face any serious challenge, and if he did, there are more important issues and races to focus on in 2010 to focus on a Quixotic race against Simpson. In addition, Simpson will vote against the most onerous government spending out of partisanship, even with a total lack of principle. However, don't expect my opinion of Simpson to change. It's hard to be warm to my Congressman who like the eight dwarf is happyily swinging a pick axe and chipping away at my economic future.