Joseph Cao has a long career ahead of him

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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.

Don, you should follow my lead and go green.

Congratulations on your irrelevance.

(Not trying to be mean, just angry with Independents who should be raising their voice inside the respective parties rather than putting their tails between their legs and letting the left-wing and right-wing nutcases run America)

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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.

Don, you should follow my lead and go green.

Congratulations on your irrelevance.

(Not trying to be mean, just angry with Independents who should be raising their voice inside the respective parties rather than putting their tails between their legs and letting the left-wing and right-wing nutcases run America)

Have you seen the morons that make-up the Atlas GOP? I wouldn't want to be associated with them any longer.

Haha I dunno... we have some pretty stellar mainstream and moderate Republican posters here who proudly wear their blue avatars.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

There are already Facebook groups calling him a "Socialist RINO scumbag" with people hurling insults like "traitor", etc.

When people say "WHY DONT U JUST BECOME A DEMOCRAT!"... I really want to respond "Why, so he'll have a better shot at re-election?"

Does anyone remember when Boehner said "The future is Cao"

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

some people still think coalitions are built by subtraction, it's hilarious

Not just subtraction, but division - and any other mathematical applications that result in fewer members and voters.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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.

So Ronald Reagan was a RINO?

I knew it!  I knew he was one of us!

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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?

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.

You self-identify as a RINO?

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.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The bill would have passed either way, so some of you need to stop whining.

It's funny how some of you Republicans called Democrats who voted against the health care bill "heroes", but ONE Republican votes for health care and you guys get your panties in a bunch.

For the record:

I'm the one who called the Democratic "no" votes "heroes" and I'm also the one defending Representative Cao - not for his vote, but for his right to represent his district the way he sees best and still be a good Republican.