I'm personally convinced that William Jefferson, he of the $90,000 freezer cash stash, was a ticking time bomb waiting to cost us the House in 2010. In a shocking development, this bomb was unexpectedly defused when Jefferson lost a majority black district to a completely unknown Republican. An interesting side story is the fact that Congressman-elect Joseph Cao will be the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress - I guess as long as Louisiana is running toward the Republican crazy platform with open arms, I would rather that they do it with some ethnically diverse candidates. The moral of the story is one that we in Georgia already know all too well - if an election doesn't happen on the regularly scheduled election day in November, don't count on the full Democratic base showing up. (Of course, the other moral is "putting $90,000 in your freezer is a bad plan".)
As long as someone other than Jefferson runs in 2010, this is an easy take back for us. Hopefully he will be sitting in jail by that time and we won't have to worry about him putting his porcine heinie in the race again.
Disturbing side note: Assuming the numbers hold up, this defeat will mean that no Democrat in Louisiana will have won a contested Congressional race this cycle (the lone Democrat elected thus far was an incumbent without Republican opposition). Louisiana has some real dark times ahead.
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I'm pretty glad Jefferson is gone. We cannot allow corruption to know no party - as the party that believes government has responsibilities and can be effective, people like Jefferson must be left to twist in the wind.
As long as only Republicans are able to see Party before country, they are going to stay in the minority, so we need to keep that happening.
I wish the Green had won instead of the Republican, but at least we got rid of that scumbag.
" I guess as long as Louisiana is running toward the Republican crazy platform with open arms, I would rather that they do it with some ethnically diverse candidates."
This I take issue with though. Does it really help to have ethnic minorities up there if they have crazy platforms? Doesn't that endanger us and maybe push Vietnamese towards the GOP (like Indians might be going behind crazy-ass Jindal?)?
It's not really any different than Alan Keyes - yes, they take from our base, but it has to help moderate some of the Republicans' xenophobic tendencies. This Cao guy seems a lot more tolerable than Marilyn Musgrave, even if he does share some of her wacko positions.
We can't forget Larry Langford who also got the axe last week.
Langford, of course, you will remember for wanting to bring the 2020 Olympics to Birmingham. His great quote was something like "Why not Birmingham? That's all I am asking."
And typepad can go f*ck itself with this comments bullsh*t.
Guess which cuss words I was trying to type.
"yes, they take from our base, but it has to help moderate some of the Republicans' xenophobic tendencies. "
I think the big difference is there's not that much bigotry against Vietnamese; I think that stuff died after they kicked America's ass out of the country.
except for that most people call Vietnamese people Chinese, and lump them in with the rest of the Asians who cant drive with their slanty eyes ;-)
Add Blagojeviadknfasdfhch to the list.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/12/09/blagojevich_taken_into_custody.html
Prognosticating, but does anyone think Roddy's custody means the AG won't get the senate pick? I had heard she was considered just so she wouldn't investigate Rod any more.
Ah, Chicago politics, what would you be if not completely corrupt?