Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

In 2008 Blackburn won her GOP primary race by gaining 62 percent of the vote against Shelby County register of deeds and former fellow state senator moderate Republican Tom Leatherwood. According to her campaign website Blackburn has received the following honors:
National Journal described Blackburn as a "freshman to watch" and a "top House conservative" in 2003 and 2004. National Right to Life praised Blackburn for supporting the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn (born June 6 1952) is the U. The district stretches from the suburbs of Nashville to the suburbs of Memphis.