Greenville, NC—Walter Jones, twenty year incumbent, in North Carolina’s third congressional district, tweeted yesterday saying he is opposed to the Pentagon’s “new” plan to let illegal aliens serve in the US military. 

Well, hot damn, let the balloons go.  On its face, it sounds good but hold on a second. Walter should know this isn’t a “new” plan.  The military has been letting undocumented residents server for a long while now.  In fact, he knows, but he’s banking you don’t.  Or, banking you don’t care which is even worse.

The military is changing it’s tune now that America has drawn down forces in Iraq and elsewhere. 

I’m more upset with Walter’s lassitude with voters in the third congressional district. Does he think we’re stupid? Does he think we can’t read?

Let’s not forget Walter hides behind letters to the families of dead soldiers, getting on camera as often as possible taunting his mea culpa, as a reason to vote him back into office, yet another term.  It may sound harsh to Walter fans, but it’s true and somebody’s got to say it. 

Walter alleges the Bush administration lied to him and the rest of Congress over the Iraqi war and WMDs, troop deployments and whatnot.  But, let’s take a look at something Walter hopes you’ve long forgotten.

On Oct 8th of 2002, Walter Jones voted to extend and make permanent the unprecedented and, as it turned out, unlimited power of the Bush administration to engage the conflicts that have cost over a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.

Walter retaliates by saying that all of Congress voted for the Iraqi war.  That’s not actually true.  There were many votes that lead down that path, but on Oct 8, 2002—136 House members from both sides of the isle voted NO on Iraq and unlimited power.

Were those 136 House members given a Magic 8 Ball that they shook to get the right answer? No. They had the same information Walter had and made a different decision.

Maybe it’s time for the voters of the third congressional district to make a different decision.   Twenty years is too long to be in Congress and the institution was NEVER intended to be handed down from father to son, like a family business.  Jones has done both.

Hell, some people in the third still think that they’re voting for Jones, Sr.  Well, they’re not.  And, sadly, there are Democrats in the NC-03 who for some strange reason think Walter Jones is still a Democrat.  Well, he’s not.  –I would go on to say, he’s not a Republican either, he just plays one on TV as the need arises.  When he feels the urge to get on camera and throw “I’m so sorry for your loss” letters.