Walter Jones, who worked to atone for his Iraq war vote, is dead at 76

[Aristus]

9. In what known universe?

He was the infantile putz who started the whole 'Freedom Fries' bullshit. Blithely dismissing two hundred thirty years of close alliance with France.

I know, I know, he tried to 'atone' for such ridiculously idiotic political squalor. But the best way to atone for something is not to do it in the first place.

It's easy in the political area to play to the cheap seats and the cheap people sitting in them. That's why so many politicians do it. The mark of an exceptional leader is not to engage in such odioous behavior.