{"id":1117,"date":"2006-06-14T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:47","slug":"i_wonder_what_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder What His Stand Is On Jus Primus Noctis??"},"content":{"rendered":"

My old buddy, Jim Moran, has a kind of … traditional … view of politial office<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrats win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran said he would use his position in the majority to help funnel more funds to his Northern Virginia district.<\/p>\n

\nMoran, D-8th, told those attending the Arlington County Democratic Committee’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on June 9 that while he in theory might oppose the fiscal irresponsibility of \u201cearmarks\u201d – funneling money to projects in a member of Congress’s district – he understands the value they have to constituents.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWhen I become chairman [of a House appropriations subcommittee], I’m going to earmark the shit out of it,\u201d Moran buoyantly told a crowd of 450 attending the event.<\/p>\n

\nColorful language and campaign hyperbole aside, Moran has a lot to gain if Democrats topple the GOP’s 12-year control of the House. His relative seniority of eight terms would make him a powerful member of any Democratic majority.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been following the career of Jim “the Jooos” Moran (D-MBNA) for a long time, beginning with this 2002 post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

WHY MY OSTENSIBLE PARTY, THE DEMOCRATS, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE BUSH’S CORPORATE HISTORY AGAINST HIM<\/b><\/p>\n

\nFrom today’s NY Times<\/p>\n

\nThe bill, which has been vigorously opposed by consumer-rights groups, had long been the top legislative priority of credit card companies and some banks, which insist that many debtors abuse the bankruptcy laws to escape debts they should be able to pay. The companies sharply stepped up campaign contributions to members of Congress in recent years as they promoted the legislation.<\/p>\n

\nAmong the biggest beneficiaries would be the MBNA Corporation of Delaware, which describes itself as the world’s biggest independent credit card company. Ranked by employee donations, MBNA was the largest corporate contributor to President Bush’s 2000 campaign.<\/p>\n

\nThe company has also recently acknowledged that it gave a $447,000 debt-consolidation loan on what critics viewed as highly favorable terms to a crucial House supporter of the bill only four days before he signed on as a lead sponsor of the legislation in 1998. Both MBNA and the lawmaker, Representative James P. Moran Jr., Democrat of Virginia, have denied that there was anything improper about the loan.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. Then there was this gem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By Spencer S. Hsu
\nWashington Post Staff Writer
\nMonday, March 10, 2003; 3:22 PM<\/p>\n

\nJewish organizations condemned Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) today for delivering what they said were anti-Semitic remarks at an anti-war forum in Reston, in which he suggested that American Jews are responsible for pushing the country to war with Iraq and that Jewish leaders could prevent war if they wanted…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which got me going here<\/a>, and more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the news<\/a> about his stepdown from a minor committee post, and more about his sterling character<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He’s up for re-election this year. And while I’m generally favorible to Democrats in the national Legislature, I’d gladly make an exception for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal doesn’t much care for Rep. Jim Moran (D-MBNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}