Marshall: \u201cI\u2019m Jim Marshall, and I approved this message.\u201d<\/p>\n
Male voiceover: \u201cTimes are hard. And illegal immigrants are putting more of a burden on taxpayers by using public services like hospitals and schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Austin Scott voted against penalizing illegal immigrants who try to send money out of the country. Austin Scott said he had \u2018a moral problem\u2019 making illegal immigrants pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Scott, what about the moral problem of illegal immigrants breaking the law?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nFor the life of me I can’t really figure out what makes Jim a Democrat, except his friendship with former Senator Zell Miller. The only vote that ever pisses me off that Jim makes is for Pelosi. And granted, that is an important one. <\/p>\n
So here is my question, assume that you lived in that district. Further assume that both of the candidates is a virtual carbon copy. The only difference is party affiliation. Would you rather have a Dem, or a GOP? See, I would rather have a Dem. And here’s why….<\/p>\n
Many of the pieces of legislation that are acted upon first get discussed in the Dem caucus meetings. Obviously if a substantial number of the majority doesn’t approve of something, it goes nowhere. Would you rather have a guy that is in there fighting against some asinine thing, or a guy who can just cast a vote against it when it gets to the floor.<\/p>\n
There’s a wide spread story that during the caucus meetings on Iraq that one time Jim and Murtha had to be physically seperated. Now, I don’t know if that is true, I never asked the Congressman, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. The last 3 times I have been in Jim’s office he had a stack of emails printed out on his desk that he wanted to read to me. They were from Dem’s in his district blasting the shit out of him for backing the surge and what we were doing in Iraq. And let me tell you, they were just venomous. So, it can’t be easy for Jim to be in the party and take that abuse. Frankly, I am somewhat amazed he hasn’t faced a more serious challenge from the left. <\/p>\n
Anyway, subject for discussion is my earlier posed question, would you rather be represented by a Conservative (pro-military, anti-illegal immigration, pro-gun) Democrat, or a Sue Collins type Republican. Put another way, how important to you is party affiliation? <\/p>\n
BTW- How hard core is Jim on Immigration, you be the judge:<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obviously the latest and greatest is from the O’Donnell v. Bearded Marxist race, but I wanted … How much does party affiliation matter?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}