GOP Rep. Walter Jones Appears on White Nationalist Radio Show

It seems the members of the Republican Party are going out of their way to provide further proof that the GOP is increasingly the party of racists, white supremacists and far right extremists in general.  The latest example?  North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones' appearance on a white supremacy radio show.  Now that's more than even local Hampton Roads Congressman Scott Rigell would do even though Rigell's previously been endorsed by hate group founder Lou Sheldon.  Jones' district includes northeastern North Carolina and areas not too distant from Hampton Roads.  Mother Jones looks at this batshitery on Jones' part and provides background on the group that Jones has pandered to.  Here are highlights:

A North Carolina Republican congressman appeared on a notorious white nationalist radio program on Saturday to talk up legislation he coauthored accusing President Barack Obama of committing impeachable offenses. Rep. Walter Jones, a fiercely anti-war congressman who often breaks with his party on key votes, appeared on the Political Cesspool, a Memphis-based program hosted by ardent white nationalists James Edwards and Eddie Miller. 

The show has been condemned by groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center for promoting racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic beliefs. Jones is the first member of Congress to appear on the program.

An avowed white nationalist who says David Duke is "above reproach," Edwards has referred to African Americans as "heathen savages" and "subhuman" and suggested that slavery was "the greatest thing that ever happened" to blacks. The show's mission statement is blunt: "We represent a philosophy that is pro-White and are against political centralization," it declares. It then outlines a series of issues the show exists to promote. "We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races," reads one plank.

As the SPLC notes:

"The Political Cesspool" in the past two years has become the primary radio nexus of hate in America. Its sponsors include the CCC and the Institute for Historical Review, a leading Holocaust denial organization. Its guest roster for 2007 reads like a "Who's Who" of the radical racist right.

Edwards' bigotry runs the spectrum. As Media Matters has documented, Edwards has alleged that Jews "run Washington, Wall Street, and the news and entertainment media" and that they're "using pornography as a subversive tool against" Christians. He defended Mississippi voters who say that interracial marriage should be illegal. (He's called interracial sex "white genocide.")

Erik Anderson, Jones' Democratic challenger, told Mother Jones the congressman needs to clear the air about what happened. "It's unbelievable that a sitting congressman would think that's appropriate," said Anderson, a Marine Corps veteran. "I really would like to hear his reasoning for why he went on there. You just don't go on a radio show like that and not know who you're talking to. I've been on conservative radio shows, but never a white supremacist one." But he has one theory: "I've said [the impeachment resolution] was racially motivated and that's absolutely what it was for because why else would he go on that show if it wasn't?" 

North Carolina Rep. Jones introduces bill to limit president's war powers

North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones is often a good foot soldier for the GOP and conservative elements within the Party. However, on occasion, Jones will buck the desires of the powers that be to do what he thinks is right, much like Virginia's Senator John Warner. Would that there were more such members of the GOP. This article from the New Bern, North Carolina Sun Journal (http://www.newbernsj.com/news/bill_37205___article.html/war_jones.html) describes one such situation where Jones is doing what's right a head os the Party and/or the Chimperator's wishes. I am certain that Emperor Palpatine Cheney will NOT like the bill. Here are some highlights:

WASHINGTON — Rep. Walter B. Jones of North Carolina has introduced a bill to prevent the use of U.S. military force in war without the consent of Congress. The bipartisan legislation would amend the United States War Powers Resolution of 1973, which was passed in response to the extended Vietnam War. Jones submitted the bill Sept. 25 and announced it Thursday at a press conference with three of five co-sponsors. One of them, Rep. Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democrat, is a member of the House subcommittee on foreign affairs which will first hear the bill. Also present were Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and Rep. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, both Republicans. The other co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii and and Rep. Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, both Democrats.

The bill would prevent U.S. involvement in another long war without congressional approval. But Jones said it was not drafted in response to last week’s “World War III” comment by President George Bush or to new numbers released this week by the Congressional Budget Office putting the cost of the Iraq War through 2008 at $610 billion and predicting a cost through 2017 of as much as $2.4 trillion. “This has nothing to do with Iraq,” said Jones, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee and was one of the first Republican congressmen to oppose the war in Iraq. “This has to do with the Constitution and it has to do with the future,” said Jones. “From what I have seen Congress has not met its constitutional duty regarding oversight.” Jones said he is also concerned about the long deployments of overtaxed military forces and families.

Jones said the framers of the U.S. Constitution sought to decentralize U.S. war powers with those checks. “Throughout American history, this balance too often has been ignored,” he said. “Since U.S. involvement in Korea, presidents of both parties have used military force abroad without the consent of Congress.” The bill specifically prohibits presidential entry into future hostilities without congressional action except to repel and retaliate for an attack on the U.S. or U.S. troops, or to protect and evacuate U.S. citizens. It would strengthen requirements for presidential reporting to Congress to keep members better informed, improve congressional oversight, and tie the purse strings of operations initiated without compliance.

Virginia Sloan, president of The Constitution Project, a nonpartisan organization focused on solving constitutional issues, said it would be “a significant step toward restoring the checks and balances established in the Constitution.”