Me too.

Dean Nielsen at Progressive Majority writes...

I'm tired of people bashing my Congressman, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott.

and offers a spirited defense, including a pointer to a rare but excellent example of positive coverage from the local press by the PI's Robert Jamieson. A teaser...

McDermott is a messenger for whom human caring knows no borders. And people facing ethnic hatred and hopelessness abroad place their message of suffering in his hands -- literally, it turns out.

When McDermott recently traveled on a fact-finding mission to the Darfur region of Sudan, people pressed pieces of paper into his palm. McDermott couldn't read the scribbling in the foreign language of the weary souls.

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McDermott's office translated the notes from the trip and e-mailed the English version to me yesterday. The words show that history is on the verge of hitting the repeat button, as it did when ethnic Hutus slaughtered 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.

Carl Ballard continues the love-in, saying that Jim's...

"...the Rep. for life because he represents his district so well."

As a faithful constituent of Rep. McDermott, I can hardly disagree with that sentiment, but however effusively offered, it falls a bit short. As Jamieson details, he's the Rep. for life because he represents the whole damn world so well.