Don't Punish New Orleans

Amidst all the brouhaha about the appointment of the corrupt piece of garbage Congressman William Jefferson (D-Louisiana) to the Homeland Security committee, there is something everyone is forgetting...his constituents.

Yes, Jefferson has been dogged by scandal, he is corrupt, he is the worst possible type of politicians, but something has happened since Pelosi stripped him off the Ways and Means Committee...an election happened.

And it wasn't as if Jefferson wasn't targeted. Another Democrat, Karen Carter, ran against Jefferson and got support from a large number of Democrats around the country. (I rooted for Cater to defeat Jefferson.) However, the people of New Orleans, for some ungodly reason, reelected the jerk.

Pelosi put him on the Homeland Security committee to serve the people of New Orleans, 43% of whom did not vote for Jefferson. The people of New Orleans deserve service...and quite frankly, I look forward to defeating Jefferson in 2008.

I would say however, one more indication of corruption from this guy, and he should be stripped of everything and possibly even expelled from the House. I can't deal with people like Jefferson. It angers me that he got reelected, but that was the prerogative, which I can't seem to understand, of a slim majority of his district.