The event, held Tuesday evening, brought area state legislators together to discussion bipartisanship, concerns over federal funding, and the likelihood of a fall session.
Always amazing to see how so many, from Republican state legislators to ahem, some editors, want to focus on the happy, happy, happy facade while ignoring the elephant in the room. That these same legislators willingly belong to a party that has attempted to overthrow the government, pardoned those who attacked the government, and is currently looking to destroy the parts of the government that most directly serves the people at the federal level.
That it happens in a state and region so dependent on that structure makes it more ironic. 90% of VA housing support comes from federal, and these folks support its destruction. A nurse like Tara Durant, and she has nothing to say about her party's chosen health leader saying to take castor oil and vitamins for the measles instead of a MMR vaccine?
I'm sure some wittier person could come up with some apt bon mot, about the band on the Titanic playing as the ship goes down, or Nero fiddling, but honestly - it's just ringing a bit hollow. Why not, next time, bring in some of those homeless families from out of their cars, vets who can't get in the VA, or elderly who can't get thru to Social Security or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and let them ask how things are going?
Might not have such a pollyanna story to write then, but it'd be a lot more interesting....
Always amazing to see how so many, from Republican state legislators to ahem, some editors, want to focus on the happy, happy, happy facade while ignoring the elephant in the room. That these same legislators willingly belong to a party that has attempted to overthrow the government, pardoned those who attacked the government, and is currently looking to destroy the parts of the government that most directly serves the people at the federal level.
That it happens in a state and region so dependent on that structure makes it more ironic. 90% of VA housing support comes from federal, and these folks support its destruction. A nurse like Tara Durant, and she has nothing to say about her party's chosen health leader saying to take castor oil and vitamins for the measles instead of a MMR vaccine?
I'm sure some wittier person could come up with some apt bon mot, about the band on the Titanic playing as the ship goes down, or Nero fiddling, but honestly - it's just ringing a bit hollow. Why not, next time, bring in some of those homeless families from out of their cars, vets who can't get in the VA, or elderly who can't get thru to Social Security or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and let them ask how things are going?
Might not have such a pollyanna story to write then, but it'd be a lot more interesting....