This week the United States House of Representatives tried to override George W. Bush’s veto of the expansion of children’s health insurance. It failed to muster the necessary number of votes. That failure was due in part to Representative Jim Marshall.

Congressman Marshall was the only Democrat in the House of Representatives to vote against children’s health insurance. The only one.

In this time of worsening economic crisis, to withhold funding for children’s health insurance is despicable. Jim Marshall has supported special tax breaks for the wealthy, but opposes funding children’s health insurance? Such a position reveals a stunning lack of compassion.

Jim Marshall occupies the seat for the 8th congressional district in Georgia. Georgia Democrats ought to remember the way that Jim Marshall has promoted the most heartless aspects of the Republican agenda, and then work to get a better candidate to represent their party in Congress.

The Democratic nominee for Congress from Georgia’s 8th district ought to be Robert Nowak, who has promised to support children’s health insurance.