A blogger with The Faster Times decided to do a rant about liberal members of congress, with our own Raúl Grijalva singled out, who are so far refusing to pass the Senate health bill unammended.
If the blogger, Mathew Speiler, wants to question Grijalva’s tactics, that’s just fine. But, he goes too far when he alleges that Grijalva cares nothing for the millions of uninsured, since he’s got his insurance through the Federal Employee Health Benefit plan.
Speiler’s piece was picked up by The New Republic too, and one of Speiler’s readers went so far as to post a response detailing the benefits that Grijalva gets from FEHB plan.
That’s all fine and good, but Grijalva isn’t on the FEHB plan, he’s on his wife’s plan. Kinda ruins the rant, donnit?
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Yeah, and I love how snotball Villager types like Spieler conveniently forget how the HCR bill basically told a large number of Grijalva’s constituents – undocumented immigrants – to drop dead.
My first comment here got eated so here’s what I posted in Spieler’s comments section:
“Matthew, I am an Arizonan and though I don’t live in Grijalva’s district I can tell you that Raul is a great public servant and a profoundly decent man. You, on the other hand, strike me as interchangeable with any number of clueless elitist Villagers dispensing wisdom to us proles (whose lives you know exactly jack squat about) from on high.
Raul Grijalva represents a district that stretches across southern AZ from Nogales to Yuma, encompassing low income parts of Tucson and Phoenix, as well as a lot of poor rural communities. A lot of undocumented immigrants live in his district, and though they can’t vote, they are his constituents. The HCR bill, with it’s cruelly cynical exclusion of undocumented immigrants basically tells them to drop dead.
Now I’ll await the responses on how denying coverage to undocumented immigrants was politically necessary because shut up you dirty hippie.”
What I hear is frustration, that some people are worried that without passing the Senate bill the whole thing will come crashing down and we will get nothing at all out of it, or ‘reforms’ that are in effect window dressing but provide nothing.
What I’d say about that is let’s see what the President says tonight and what they are doing to salvage the bill. I don’t think that Congressman Grijalva wants to run the car off the road and make everything implode, what he’s doing is saying that ‘we can do better than the Senate bill.’ Reconciliation, anyone?
Ted,
Let me get this straight. You and Grijalva are running for office on the same planet. You write an article berating a blogger which promotes yourself and your agenda, then say something nice about an individual with whom I disagree without the disclaimer at the bottom of the page. Then you say that it’s OK because the Clean Elections Commission’s said so, they have no authority here because I disagree with them.
I don’t believe the Secretary of State will agree, not that I have checked or anything. The AG’s opinion includes language which, if taken out of context, supports my opinion. Clearly, if I disagree with what you say, it’s political and needs a disclaimer. You need to play by the rules as I interpret them because I am an angry old man with strong opinions.
What on earth is Stephen banging on about?
Oh, I get it now.
Well played, Stephen!
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