It's so interesting to watch how my area's fraud of a congressman, Pete Sessions (TX-32), tries to weasel his way out of having to explain his vote for the Ryan bill that substitutes vouchers for Medicare while keeping in place financially irresponsible tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
It's so interesting how Sessions tries to blur what he really thinks by implying, as Republicans have done for years against other Democrats, that President Obama wants to raise taxes for everyone.
If even part of the deceitful war Sessions has waged against average folks like myself while claiming he was all for us ever received the play it has deserved in our local media, many folks may think twice before sending this lying fraud back to Congress next year.
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When Sessions speaks of his happiness about voting against healthcare reform when he voted for the Ryan bill, he doesn't mention that:
1. By doing so, he makes even harder for the 50 million Americans who don't have health insurance to obtain it.
2. By doing so, he implies that it's fine and dandy for insurance companies to deny coverage for folks due to pre-existing conditions or merely because they get too ill.
In the latest of what he calls on his taxpayer-supported web site his "Hill Report," Sessions makes the following statement:
House Republicans are working to get our nation off its current path towards bankruptcy by offering common sense spending cuts and proposing a fiscally responsible budget plan that will empower job creators.
Did you notice the phrase "job creators"? That is Republican-ese for the richest 1 percent, and what Sessions doesn't say is that the Bush tax cuts for the richest 1 percent that he and his fellow Republcans claimed would create lots of jobs fell way short of that.
And what does Sessions and other Republicans want to do to bring more jobs? More Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. I suspect lots of folks in my district have seen this play from Republicans before, and if they are confronted with how badly the Bush tax cuts have been for job creation, they may think twice about keeping this idiot in office.
And notice that Sessions NOT ONCE mentions another really crippling feature of the Ryan bill he so enthusiastically supports-- the fact that the legislation eliminates Medicare and replaces it with a voucher system that leaves seniors (and soon-to-be-seniors like me) at the mercy of private insurers who we'd have to pay more just to get some coverage.
One more thing. Instead of telling the truth about how he and other Republicans passed irresponsible tax cuts for the weathiest without any way of paying for them when George W. Bush was president, Sessions tries to shift the blame on our President, who has done more in just over two years as president than Bush and his Republican friends combined have done in their entire lifetimes.
Pete Sessions may wish constituents like me didn't know about what he and his Republican friends did when Bush was in power and what he and his allies continue to do. But I haven't, and I suspect once more of us in our district find out about the real Pete Sessions, the less they'll like him.
It's time Sessions doesn't get an easy fight for re-election. It's long past due that this irresponsible scum of a congressman gets confronted by a well-funded opponent who will really put Sessions on the defensive and force him to explain how he wants to take away Medicare benefits in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent.
Sessions must be defeated along with the rest of the Republican scum.