Joseph Cao has a long career ahead of him

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Cao got elected by a fluke, and thankfully he will most likely be voted out next time regardless of his traitorous vote for Pelosi's healthcare scheme.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Lincoln Chaffe must be proud of him.

Please, purge him for us.

Im fine with moderate and liberal republican but what is the point of being in the GOP when you're gonna vote like 98% of the time with the Dems

Cao voted against the stimulus and cap-n-trade

Any vote with the Dems, even on a minor procedural issue or the naming of a Post Office in Arkansas, is considered voting with them "98%" of the time according to our RINO-hunting friends.

This is not a minor procedural issue. Cao just voted for the destruction of the U.S. healthcare system.

If Cao has Democratic values, why should he remain in the GOP?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

1- that might be the slightest of exaggerations
2- why not extrapolate that for every divergent vote?  he votes for a pro-choice judge or something and he'll have voted for the "holocaust of millions of babies" and so on.  That sort of rhetoric just destroys all meaning to politics until it becomes a rhetorical if not literal circle-jerk.

Politics is a filthy business to begin with, but I don't see a problem with looking at the bigger picture with regard to each individual vote.

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You mean more good than harm for his political career, not for the country. Fortunately the Dems will just have to nominate any black man they could find to easily take back the seat.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

If Cao has Democratic values, why should he remain in the GOP?

He voted against the Obama Stimulus and Cap-and-trade.  But you say he has "Democratic values"?

He made it clear that he wouldn't vote for the Health Care bill unless it clearly protected the unborn.  Democratic values?

The Republicans claim to be a party that supports free market solutions and restrained government. Why shouldn't their members be expected to live up to the rhetoric?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

1- that might be the slightest of exaggerations
2- why not extrapolate that for every divergent vote?  he votes for a pro-choice judge or something and he'll have voted for the "holocaust of millions of babies" and so on.  That sort of rhetoric just destroys all meaning to politics until it becomes a rhetorical if not literal circle-jerk.

Politics is a filthy business to begin with, but I don't see a problem with looking at the bigger picture with regard to each individual vote.

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You mean more good than harm for his political career, not for the country. Fortunately the Dems will just have to nominate any black man they could find to easily take back the seat.

"Fortunately"?..... you do realize that "any black man" will vote Pelosi's position 99.9% of the time, right?

Better to have an open enemy than a backstabber.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

If Cao has Democratic values, why should he remain in the GOP?

He voted against the Obama Stimulus and Cap-and-trade.  But you say he has "Democratic values"?

He made it clear that he wouldn't vote for the Health Care bill unless it clearly protected the unborn.  Democratic values?

The Republicans claim to be a party that supports free market solutions and restrained government. Why shouldn't their members be expected to live up to the rhetoric?

The Republicans claim to be a lot of things.  If we made each one of those things a litmus test, we wouldn't have more than thirty members of Congress.

Then its no surprise why the Republicans are on a downward spiral, considering they have certainly not lived up to the conservative values they claim to support. And if they're not a party of small government, then how are they any different from Obama and Democrats?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

1- that might be the slightest of exaggerations
2- why not extrapolate that for every divergent vote?  he votes for a pro-choice judge or something and he'll have voted for the "holocaust of millions of babies" and so on.  That sort of rhetoric just destroys all meaning to politics until it becomes a rhetorical if not literal circle-jerk.

Politics is a filthy business to begin with, but I don't see a problem with looking at the bigger picture with regard to each individual vote.

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You mean more good than harm for his political career, not for the country. Fortunately the Dems will just have to nominate any black man they could find to easily take back the seat.

"Fortunately"?..... you do realize that "any black man" will vote Pelosi's position 99.9% of the time, right?

Better to have an open enemy than a backstabber.

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor."

-- Ronald Reagan

Hollow words coming from big government neocon Ronald Reagan, 100% traitor.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

1- that might be the slightest of exaggerations
2- why not extrapolate that for every divergent vote?  he votes for a pro-choice judge or something and he'll have voted for the "holocaust of millions of babies" and so on.  That sort of rhetoric just destroys all meaning to politics until it becomes a rhetorical if not literal circle-jerk.

Politics is a filthy business to begin with, but I don't see a problem with looking at the bigger picture with regard to each individual vote.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

You mean more good than harm for his political career, not for the country. Fortunately the Dems will just have to nominate any black man they could find to easily take back the seat.

"Fortunately"?..... you do realize that "any black man" will vote Pelosi's position 99.9% of the time, right?

Better to have an open enemy than a backstabber.

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor."

-- Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan would probably have been primaried in today's lunatic Republican party.

Then the country would have been spared eight-years of record deficits, rapid growth of government, expansion of the war on drugs, needless militarism and sabre-rattling, and all the other nonsense this GOP demigod oversaw.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

1- that might be the slightest of exaggerations
2- why not extrapolate that for every divergent vote?  he votes for a pro-choice judge or something and he'll have voted for the "holocaust of millions of babies" and so on.  That sort of rhetoric just destroys all meaning to politics until it becomes a rhetorical if not literal circle-jerk.

Politics is a filthy business to begin with, but I don't see a problem with looking at the bigger picture with regard to each individual vote.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

You mean more good than harm for his political career, not for the country. Fortunately the Dems will just have to nominate any black man they could find to easily take back the seat.

"Fortunately"?..... you do realize that "any black man" will vote Pelosi's position 99.9% of the time, right?

Better to have an open enemy than a backstabber.

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor."

-- Ronald Reagan

Hollow words coming from big government neocon Ronald Reagan, 100% traitor.

So Ronald Reagan was a RINO?

I knew it!  I knew he was one of us!

You self-identify as a RINO?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

You might want to consider reading a document called "The Constitution of the United States of America".  In said document you will find, plainly stated, that members of Congress represent apportioned districts, not political parties.

Good idea, go ahead and read that. Then maybe you'll realize that what matters is how many people who will do what is right for the country are elected, not how many Republicans you elect without regard to principles.

I self-identify as an American and a child of God.  I just happen to also be a member of the Republican Party as that is where my core political values lie.

You seem to identify as Republican over American since you seem more concerned with getting people calling themselves Republicans elected over actually holding any of them to principles.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Even if he voted with the Republicans 20% of the time, it would be a lot more then the Democrat that district would elect.

And the things he does vote with the Republicans on will likely be the those that the GOP is wrong on...its time to put principles over party.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Even if he voted with the Republicans 20% of the time, it would be a lot more then the Democrat that district would elect.

And the things he does vote with the Republicans on will likely be the those that the GOP is wrong on...its time to put principles over party.

When he votes against the Republicans, he's bad. When he votes with the Republicans, he needs to put principles over party?

Most Republicans are only voting the way they are now because it is a Democratic president who is pushing the agenda. We need people who can be counted on to vote principles whether its politically convenient or not. Cao clearly failed that test.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Also: Cao isn't even supposed to be New Orleans' Rep, in that his election was a lucky fluke. Wouldn't you rather a Republican who votes with you "20%" of the time for 2 years, or a Democrat who votes with you 0% of the time, forever.

Bill Jefferson was hardly the not-voting-with-Republicans-ever type. I don't know about his last term, but there certainly were times when he was the most right wing member of the Black Congressional Caucus by a mile or two.
He wouldn't have voted against this bill, though. Noone could possibly think that voting against a bill insuring most currently uninsured Americans, almost no matter what the details, would be the wrong thing to do for that district... and I don't mean for their election chances in that district either (though it's hard to tell the two apart).

This bill was the wrong thing for every district in America. Everyone loses with the decline in healthcare quality we're about to see.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

I don't think that's why he did it.  I think he's genuinely trying to do as much good for his district as he can, knowing he only has one term to do it. 

(I have his pic in my signature not because he's a hero, I just thought it was funny)

LOL, yeah right. Cao's just still reeling from when black churches started a recall petition against him within weeks of taking office for voting against Obama's 'stimulus'.