This is Mike Coffman, and he's not a fucking sellout

The reason why I posted this is because of the ISP passage in Congress.

I don't agree with this dude on a lot of issues. I'm a Democrat, and he's a Republican. He opposes abortion. He voted against the 2009 Obama stimulus package. He opposes federal regulation of the environment. I could go on, but you get the point.

Despite all of this, even though I've voted against him for his place in the House of Representatives, I'm proud to call him my congressman, because he's not a fucking sellout.

In a Congress with ever increasing polarity, it takes considerable balls to vote against the party line. And congressman Coffman has done this. Even more incredibly, he's shifted positions on issues after prolonged exposure to them. Not as far as I'd personally like, mind you, but further than his peers on both sides of the aisle would be willing to go in public. I don't want to make this more of a tl;dr so I'll link his voting record here:

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/1535/michael-coffman#.WNyYbHpOnqA

This here is the vote on S J res 34, the most recent example of Republicans bending to lobbyists despite the inconsistency it would create on privacy. Apparantly it's not ok for the nsa to exist but a private company with even less oversight is fine doing it? Ok. Whatever.

In the sea of posts I've seen showing how the Republicans who voted up on the resolution were spineless, selfish bags of shit, I wanted to bring a little ray of hope.

TL;DR: Republicans are Republicans, but at least this one isn't a fucking weasel