TPMDC Jim Moran: November 2009
Guantanamo Bay
Dem Congressman: 'It's Unamerican' To Oppose U.S. Terror Trials
Evan McMorris-Santoro | November 13, 2009, 6:36PM
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) has strong words for the Republicans opposing Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to bring five 9/11 suspects to New York City to face trial.
"They see this as an opportunity to demagogue," he said. "They will seize on any opportunity to do that, and that means they'll even take a stand that's un-American."
"It's un-American to hold anyone indefinitely without trial," Moran added. "It's against our principles as a nation."
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Jim Moran
Jim Moran: If GOP Were Running In Afghanistan, They Would Be On The 'Taliban Ticket'
Eric Kleefeld | November 3, 2009, 11:58AM
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) made a tough accusation against the Republicans at a Sunday get-out-the-vote rally in Virginia -- openly accusing them of being like the Taliban.
"I mean, if the Republicans were running in Afghanistan, they'd be running on the Taliban ticket as far as I can see," Moran declared.
The campaign of Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell, who has been attacked by the Democrats for his staunch social conservatism -- and a hard-right college thesis written in his 30s -- called Moran's comments "negative" and "vicious."
After that initial remark, Moran doesn't appear to be keeping this up. My TPM colleague Christina Bellantoni was at last night's rally, and tells me that Moran did not say anything like that last night. So he definitely toned it down after Sunday.
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