Sunday, March 25, 2007

The Price of Integrity

McClatchy has a report on the consequences to one Republican congressmoop who voted against Our Dear Embattled Leader recently.
Five weeks after Rep. Bob Inglis broke with his party and his president to vote against the U.S. troop surge in Iraq, the South Carolina Republican is engaged in an all-out effort to save his seat....

... Many of Inglis’ GOP constituents have expressed their displeasure more bluntly.

“Mr. Inglis, I am outraged, embarrassed and ashamed at your vote today,” Mark Sternick, a constituent from Greenville, wrote in comments that Inglis has posted on his Website.

“My son is serving in the Army in Iraq today,” Sternick wrote. “With this vote, you might have just as well just put a bullet in his head and in his heart.”
Rep. Inglis' problem seems to be that he is more of a conservative than a Republican.
“Al Qaeda, Hezbollah -- those are our enemies,” he said. “The Democrats are not my enemies. They’re my countrymen.”

Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]





<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Subscribe to Posts [Atom]