In this case, it doesn’t matter what color one is if one isn’t doing one’s job. I think it is interesting however that we don’t hear much from our U.S. Rep’s period.

Living in Chicago, I never hear much from 1st District U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, I most certainly don’t hear much from U.S. Rep. John Lewis down here in Atlanta, but I really don’t think it’s a color issue, but more, what is it that the U.S. Rep. actually does. I see more work being done from the state Reps and senators and the U.S. Senators and other locally elected officials.

Now, I do pose the question as to what kind of “federal intervention” are you speaking of–because if it was in the form of the national guard or something I’d be 10% AGAINST such a move.

The 11th is the Stokes district…a proud district. Tubbs-Jones did nothing but treat the symptoms and not the problems. Few…too few laws were sponsored by her office. Yet she was non apologetic in taking one trip after another. In the meantime, gun battles have persisted in the east side of Cleveland. A man was set on fire. If I were representative of the district, I would have stopped what I was working on and petitiioned the President for federal intervention. What we heard was deafening silence.

Tubbs-Jones sat as chair on the House Ethics committee and allowed relaxation of the rules prohibiting members of congress from taking free rides on “friends” jets. That seemed to be more important to her than the safety of her own constituents.

I can say this because I live in the district. We deserved better.

I think you bring up such an interesting conundrum about the principles of a democratic republic. The framers of democracy as we know it were quite clear that there must be some sort of representative form of government because the people don’t always know what’s best.

That beyond the shadow of a doubt, I agree with.

I think if the people were so inclined that they really weren’t happy with her decision, it’s an election year, they’da voted her butt out.

Although, my conspiracy wheels say she had been drinking the Clinton Kool-Aid and the effects wore off once she was no longer needed.

Go figure.

I strolled over here from Big Man’s place, while I’m here I will comment on Tubbs-Jones. I respected the sister but I did not care for her. I respected her because of her personal accomplishments, and her willingness to honor her word and stand by hillary. I did not care for her becasue she stood by while hillary and her gang tried to character assisinate Barack

But what I hated about her the most was her hypocrisy. She accepted the will of the people in her district and took her seat in the U.S. House of rep, yet she ignored the will of her constituents when they gave their support to Barack during the primaries. Basically, she ignored the will of the people when it mattered most. All-in-all, RIP.

I used to support Obama because he was black. Then he pissed me off on how he handled the Jeremiah Wright issue and some other “personal responsibility” speeches he gave in certain black venues. And his non-attendance at certain functions I felt his presence was warranted.

So, now I’m voting for him because he’s a democrat.

Trust me, if Hillary Clinton hadn’t so royally shown her ass to the rest of black America, I would have demanded that I change my vote to Hillary Clinton and not Barack Obama in the primaries.