GOP Predators Find Themselves A Useful Idiot: Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

[alp227]

If you want to make believe the Republicans in Congress aren't fighting a vicious and concerted class war against working families on behalf of Big Business, Wall Street and the 1%, you can work with them towards bipartisan solutions. But then you'd have to be an idiot since, through words and deeds, the Republicans in Congress have shown, indisputably shown, that "bipartisan" always means the same thing for them: support the dogmatic right-wing approach/strategy. Former DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen ought to know better; maybe he does.

Van Hollen teamed up with Paul Ryan-- Ryan acting on behalf of Eric Cantor-- to push through the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011. Ryan and Van Hollen, both members of the Budget Committee are kind of palsy-walsy, in a ruling class kind of way. Yesterday they introduced a bill to give the president a line item veto, something the Supreme Court has already struck down as unconstitutional. I wonder if Ryan gave Van Hollen a boxed edition of the collected works of Ayn Rand as a thank you.

full: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2011/11/gop-predators-find-themselves-useful.html

[Chan790]

1. As a constituent of Chris Van Hollen, I have to contest your assessment.

I've never found him terribly useful at-all.

Of all the Congresspeople and Senators I've ever been represented-by and written to on political issues: Lowell Weicker, Chris Dodd, Gary Franks, James H. Maloney, Nancy Johnson, Chris Murphy, Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter, Rick Santorum, Chaka Fattah, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer, Eliot L. Engel, Ben Cardin, Barbara Mikulski, Chris Van Hollen...only Van Hollen has not once acknowledged that I contacted his office or responded. I might have disagreed with a lot of other people on this list...but at-least they acknowledged that they work for their constituents. Van Hollen, even in interviews, acts like we're the great nuisance of his life.

I send a lot of letters to my Congress people.

[Citizen Worker]

2. Thank you. I've never believed that Van Hollen was a friend to working people.