Rookie Of The Year
Published by BG on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 8:54 AM.As an end-of-year gimmick, The Politico is running profiles on freshman Senators (and, hopefully, Congressmen - coughPatrickMurphycough [although he gets an "honorable mention" blurb here]). Anyway, a pretty glowing profile overall. Here's a clip:
Anti-war Webb was talk of Senate from Day 1 - Daniel W. Reilly - Politico.com
Here's Webb from January, giving the aforementioned Democratic response to the State of the Union address. Excellent speech.
Anti-war Webb was talk of Senate from Day 1 - Daniel W. Reilly - Politico.com
In the NBA, Sen. Jim Webb would have been a can’t-miss, No. 1 draft pick.
A decorated Vietnam veteran and a former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, the freshman Virginia Democrat, who opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, was seen early on as the leader of a new vanguard of populist, anti-war Democrats.
Given plum posts on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and tapped to give the response to President Bush’s State of the Union address just 19 days after he was sworn in, Webb quickly lived up to expectations, emerging this year as a leading Democratic voice in the Iraq war debate.
“He is a unique and weird combination of street-brawler and professor,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), one of Webb’s closest friends.
“Intellectually, he is probably as smart, or smarter, than most folks around here,” she said.
“But he’s got an instinct. He knows when to go for the kill.”
Here's Webb from January, giving the aforementioned Democratic response to the State of the Union address. Excellent speech.
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