Cassi Creek:
This certainly depicts our Congressman accurately. A former OB/Gyn, he is now a teavangelist/GOP minion who can be found voting the party line at every opportunity.
He opposes any regulation of energy companies. He eagerly supports mountain top removal mining and the subsequent sale of MTR coal to China in order to allow continued profits by the coal producing companies.
He has voted against hazardous duty pay increases for active duty troops, and against increased funding for suicide prevention among active-duty troops and veterans.
He wants to destroy Medicare and replace it with vouchers for corporate health care managed by insurance companies. As a physician, he knows how rapidly those vouchers will become inadequate and how seniors will be relegated to a position of no health care as in the pre-Medicare days.
He opposes the EPA and FDA. If he can’t destroy them, he will attempt to starve their functions. He wants no regulations to maintain breathable air, potable water, and safe disposal of trash and other forms of pollution. If he and his fellow polluters have their way, the Great Smokey Mountains will once more be subject to acid rain destruction. Our trout fishing industry will be devastated by fouled, oxygen-depleted water.
Our food supply will rapidly become a source of ever-expanding food-borne illness as production plants forsake safety and clean food for a smaller production cost and greater incidence of infection. Corporate America will not police itself.
China is already a source of increasing amounts of counterfeit medicines. If our FDA is gutted, how many of us will fall prey to illness caused by pills that do nothing except fill the pockets of the greedy?
He will, however, support any laws that are leveled at abortion, at family planning, at sex-education in schools. He will continue to attempt to close Planned Parenthood, lying about its actual role in today’s health care delivery for poor and working-poor women.
He, like all the GOP/teavanagelists, is quite willing to legislate a theocracy into being. He will work for any regulations and laws that put his personal religion in a position that allows subversion of our 1st Amendment protection from a state religion.
It is time for Mr. Roe, and all his fellow teavangelists to be unseated. They were placed into Congress by a voter base that is singularly un-informed and which is motivated by fear and bigotry. The 2012 election will be critical. We can stand back and allow our government to be captured by oligarchs and theocrats, or we can find candidates who will reverse the pattern of the Reagan/Bush II years. It is up to us to block the teavangelists. We have to begin doing so now.
“What’s wrong with this?” department:
“First-class passengers aboard some Malaysia Airlines flights won't have to worry about being woken up by a crying baby anymore. The airline has banned infants in first class of its Boeing 747-400 jets, and has plans to do the same in their new Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, the Australian Business Traveller reported.”
Cassi Creek:
Wouldn’t it be better to ban infants and children from the economy class seats? The poor folks flying economy are starved, have no foot or legroom, no real reclining seats, and must pay dearly for any semblance of a meal, fluids, or other creature comforts. To inflict the children of others on them in addition is truly cruel and should not be tolerated. It seems far better to demand that people flying with children be required to buy 1st class seats. There are far fewer 1st class passengers on a 747 than economy class passengers. The loss of revenue would be minimal and the chances of open rebellion by a group of adults driven to the brink of madness by cattle car conditions and bratty behavior by parents who seem to believe that their children must be allowed to annoy others without being forced into polite, submission for the duration of the flight would be far less. Parents objecting to first class fares should be offered the option of shipping their offspring in pet crates in the cargo compartment. If it is good enough for our dog, it is certainly good enough for their little darlings.
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