Hot Button Rod

While I was checking out the Project Vote Smart site I also looked at Rod Grams page. Rod hasn’t sent in his answers yet either but I did check the link to his webpage to see if it’s changed since my last peek at it. It has.

I was particularly unimpressed with his bashing of Jim Oberstar on this page. It shows exactly what’s wrong with the current Republicans and demonstrates how Rod could have a 97% “Republican” voting record.

Jim Oberstar has done the fairly surprising thing of endorsing a dark horse candidate for Governor, the liberal State Senator Becky Lourey, who I also like. Grams makes sure to point out her pro-choice voting record and tars Oberstar through guilt by association. Supposedly by supporting Lourey despite her pro-choice voting Oberstar is helping a baby killer which apparently Grams would never do.

Well, Oberstar is in the party which is primarily pro-choice. If he had nothing to do with any prochoicers he’d be pretty ineffective. By implication Rod is affirming the blacklisting and purging of pro-choice Republicans in his own party. That would be folks like me! I suspect Rod would have approved when Duluth’s Justin Krych called Republicans like us worse mass murderers than Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot combined.

Rod Grams is campaigning to bring a new more positive tone to Washington. Yeah sure!

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty