He was a better conservative than 90% of the GOP.
Just a few months before 9/11 he warned that Bin Laden could walk across our southern border with a suitcase nuke and nothing would stop him.
He often said that most of our intelligence agencies were so stupid they could throw themselves at the ground and miss.
While in Congress, Traficant was a supporter of immigration reduction,[18] and a strong opponent of illegal immigration. In the controversy surrounding the defeat of Congressman Bob Dornan (R-CA) by Democrat Loretta Sanchez, Traficant was the only Democratic member of Congress who advocated a new election, due to Dornan’s allegations of voting in that race by undocumented immigrants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant
Traficant’s major legislative accomplishment in the House was the adoption of some of his proposals to constrain enforcement activities by the Internal Revenue Service against delinquent taxpayers.
Traficant began a grassroots campaign in July 2014, “Project Freedom USA”,[32] to, among other things, put people pressure on Congress to get rid of the IRS and “divorce” the Federal Reserve.[33]
It's been well documented here and elsewhere that 9/11 was a KKKlintoon operation. No, lil' Billy didn't actually orchestrate the planes as such. But it was he and his administration that allowed the foundation for the muzzie attacks to occur on that fateful day. Yes, there's no denying the attacks did indeed occur during the dawn of the Bush/Cheney era but paint had barely dried on the walls of the Oval Office on September 11, 2001. That's why it's wrong to say that the terrorist attack happened on Bush's watch as the commies claim. The blame for 9/11 rests solely on KKlintoon and the DemonRATS.
I liked the guy, and I’m a Conservative! He was “colorful” and the Dems hated him. I believe he was set up. But then any pol that comes from the Mahoning Valley has got to have a lot of baggage!
I agree. If he had his way the IRS would have been fully reigned in and not able to target conservatives. I miss his 1 minute rants.