Survey Says?

For some strange reason I'm on Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) mailing list. As a result I got an e-mail gushing about her ideas for this Congress. Also included was a link to a survey she has on her website that seeks to uncover the issues that constituents find MOST important.

You have three drop-down menus which list all the possible issues, with the exception of the third menu which also has an "other" option and room to write this said other issue. Now I'm as liberal as the next person, but I'm genuinely bothered by the issues she has available. See for yourself:

• Preserving Social Security and Medicare
• Protecting a woman's right to choose
• Making health care more affordable for families
• Ensuring that polluters -- not taxpayers -- pay for toxic waste cleanups
• Enacting a Patient's Bill of Rights for those enrolled in HMOs
• Fully funding the No Child Left Behind education law
• Ensuring veterans have adequate health care
• Increasing resources for homeland security
• Increasing the minimum wage
• Passing a comprehensive transportation bill -- to create jobs and improve transportation
• Ensuring that America’s judges represent mainstream American view
• Providing a tax cut for the cost of college
• Preserving more of America’s wild and natural places
• Passing a Violence Against Children Act
• Expanding the COPS Program -- to put more police officers on the streets
• Reducing our national debt
• Passing an effective National Energy Policy

Again, I realize this is nothing more than a political stunt, but at least there should be the semblance of representing EVERY viewpoint in California. Frankly, I'd have a heart attack if I was a classical liberal.

I am still in my holiday mood so I don't even want to discuss the merit of each issue.