walter jones

Walter Jones, the North Carolina representative who checks with god before every vote in Congress, has apparently not been checking with god before every email he sends to his constituents. Otherwise he would not be sending out patently false information using taxpayer dollars to underwrite his bullshit propaganda.

As a homeowner at Emerald Isle, I get creepy emails from Walter Jones all the time. This one is typical, so I finally decided to write him back:

Dear Friend,

I would like your input on questions to ask at an upcoming hearing on the Federal Reserve’s money printing!

On Wednesday, February 9th, the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology is holding a hearing titled “Can Monetary Policy Really Create Jobs?” The subcommittee oversees the Federal Reserve, and as Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee under Chairman Ron Paul, I will be there to ask questions and demand answers regarding the employment problems facing the people of the 3rd District of North Carolina and across this nation.

File this under "a little late" to make a difference, but Walter Jones, 3rd Congressional District of North Carolina now regrets his vote on the Iraq war. Yes folks, this Dem turned Repub (his solution to getting elected in 1994 during the Clinton Bashing Campaign) now thinks that we should not have gone to war with Iraq.

Dear members of Congress from North Carolina,

Is this what you all have in mind when you talk about accountability in government? It looks like business as usual for Republicans, but then again, Republicans aren't supposed to be in charge.

Pretty disgusting if you ask me.

What started as a temporary fix in response to the terrorist attacks has turned into a dependency that calls into question whether the federal workforce includes too many people obligated to shareholders rather than the public interest -- and whether the government is still in control of its most sensitive activities. In interviews last week, both Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and CIA Director Leon Panetta said they agreed with such concerns.

Walter Jones joins the happy talk express today by encouraging our state and local governments to get cracking on preparations for oil washing ashore on our beaches.

“We need to know how to prepare for the possibility of oil on our beaches,” said Jones, a Farmville Republican. “There must be a plan to make sure our residents are safe and our tourism and fishing industries can survive.”

With so many Republican chickenhawks wanting to pour more money into the black hole of Afghanistan, Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin has taken a powerful and smart position on the matter:

[He] made it clear that he is absolutely opposed to sending any more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and says if Obama decides to do that, he'll demand a new tax -- what he calls a "war surtax" -- to pay for it.

The intrusion of god into public policy has long been a source of concern for me. It started early in my Navy career, at the Naval Academy to be precise, when roughly four thousand Midshipmen were rousted out of bed on Sunday mornings and marched off to church. We were allowed a church of our choosing, and I went Episcopal because it was a shorter walk. We didn't have the option of saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."

I was really struck by this article I found linked to from HuffPo today. I know that ole Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones deserves very little of our sympathy for some of the outlandish comments and terrible votes he has cast as a United States Representative, but I am very much looking forward to reading this book.

Dome reports today that North Carolina Congressmen Walter Jones and GK Butterfield are sponsoring an amendment to forbid the US Navy to pursue an outlying landing field in the two NC locations they're stalking these days. Here's the story.

Walter Jones has sponsored 132 bills since Jan 4, 1995. of which 122 haven't even made it out of committee and ONLY 6 were successfully enacted.

Is this ALL Eastern NC is worth 6 little Bills! What has he been doing all this time while he has been in Congress? I will tell you, NOT MUCH! Well let me take that back. That might not be fair to Walter Jones.

He has fought Against Education, Health Care, Civil Rights, A Woman’s Right To Chose. He has also done a lot of fighting FOR Big Oil and Big Multi National Corporations. His idea of Tax Reform is Keep cutting Taxes for the Rich. His ideas on Crime and Law enforcement resemble the stance of Lock them all up and let God Sort them out.

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