In May 2008, he earned a master's degree in Christian Communications at Louisiana Baptist University, a primarily religious, non-accredited institution
News Busters - "That's just stuck on stupid," Martin said. "I mean to sit there on the House floor and all of a sudden you're talking about, oh, this is communism and you're sitting here and reaching - that's just dumb, OK? You know what? If Republicans truly cared about health care, why in the world didn't they do anything for eight years? So don't stand here now when the Democrats have been pushing the issue and now say, oh, no, ‘Republicans - we really care about health care,' when you had the opportunity to make changes to our system."
"The fact of the matter is, when you have Republicans who want to sit here and throw all these kind of nonsensical names out there, it does nothing but stir up the nutcases who are frankly calling Democrats the kind of names on yesterday," Martin said. ...
"And so if you want to make an argument that there are core differences, there are no doubt between Democrats and Republicans on this issue," Martin said. "And you know what? You sometimes have to make tough issues - tough decisions. And so I just don't believe in these ridiculous names, what's communism and what's socialism. People probably can't even spell communism and socialism, much less identify it."