Walter Jones shows up late to another Party
Submitted by Blue South on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 11:47am
The classic saying is, "Better Late than Never". Well, at what point does being late start to become unacceptable?
In 2003 Walter Jones voted against the disasterous Prescription Drug Plan pushed for by the Republican Party. This is and was a good thing.
However, he is just now getting to talking about it with the press.
Feel free to call me jaded, but complaining about the Republican leadership keeping votes open for hours at a time and having a bill written by the industry's giants is something that should have been done, say IN 2003! To say over 3 1/2 years later, with new leadership in the House and Senate, that this was a bad bill is a waste of everyone's time. What exactly does Jones hope to accomplish?
Should we feel sorry for him, that he stood up to the Republican Leadership and was ignored? I dont think so! Lets take a look, and see, what did he do following the (his quote) "ugliest night" he had seen in politics?
He voted for that same Republican leadership to continue in power in both 2004 and 2006. As Marshall has pointed out, he took checks from Congressmen who are now in jail or have been indicted.
Once again, Jones stands up and says what we want to hear. And, once again, he does it years after it matters. First the Iraq War, now drug benefits for seniors. Is there anything Jones actually believes in? And, if there is something, would he bother to take a position before a vote in congress instead of 2 to 4 years later?
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Things change
In 2004, Walter Jones, Jr. was not the #1 targeted congressman to switch parties, I would even venture to say in 2004 Jones was not even in the top ten list of Republican Congressman looking to become Democrats now all that has changed. Democrats in Wahington and Raleigh are desperate to get a big name member of the GOP to jump ship and he has become the most likley. And make no mistake about it if he does the political impact will be huge, this would be much bigger than a Chris Shays or a Lincoln Chafee; this would be a sign that the evangelical block which has gone solidly GOP for 15 years is breaking and the Democrats in the Washington and Raleigh would love that. What we going on now is the courtship period when both Jones and the Democrats are testing each other out, I have seen this before it is usually though a Democrat looking to go Republican not the other way around but I knew it was only a matter of time before the Democrats got into the act. This may go on for a couple of years so get ready for more of Cong. Jones going on the news and being critcal of the GOP.
Walter Jones behavior pattern in Congress is symptomatic......
Walter Jones behavior pattern in Congress is symptomatic of a greater problem which exist in far to many Congressional offices in DC. The representatives who have been in Congress
for over three or four terms are distant, unresponsive and have lost the feeling of responisility TO their constituants. They tend rather to feel more responsible FOR us than TO us.
To some degree Bluesouth, we are responsible for how it happens. We rarely hold our representatives responsible for what is wrong in Congress. We tend to blame every congressman, but our own.
the Republican Party has taken this feeling of superioriority over the masses to a new level. Walter Jones was happy to go along for the ride, benefiting from the belittled and dumped on North Carolinians who dared to object to the Presidentst's and The Republican Partys policies of aggrssesive foreign policy and wrapping it up in the American flag.
Walter Jone stood by while North carolinians who dared raise their voice about the US Government spying on its citizens and torturing who knows who in secret prisons were labled as unamerican and unpatriotic.
Walter was fine with that.......until things started changing and the clear and present danger of the policies of the republican Party and the President started being understood by the American population at large. Then Walter calmly and cooly began to cast doubt about the President and his dangerous policies. Of course, Walter Jones is sure we have not noticed.
I do not question Walters integrity. What I question is his grasp and understanding of the gravity of the things he helped the President to accomplish and how it almost Irreparably damaged the very fiber of our American existance by devisably deviding us against eachother.
Shame on you Walter Jones. You don't walk away from that.
No Trust from This Chick
Anyone who sits on the fence that long... um. No.
No, thanks. Every time someone mentions him, it's always CYA.
Day late, dollar short. Taking the safety position.
Nope. Can't trust someone like that - it translates to 'what's in it for me, and to heck with you'; I expect more than that.
Jones, Jr has been shunned by the Republicans...
so he's looking to the Democrats for some love.
He's currying favor with those in power, that's all. I hope that the Democratic leadership is smart enough to do what the Republicans did: Shun him.
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