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9.30.09 | Dedicated to My Congresswoman Susan Kosmas: The Ultimate Fence Sitter
I politely ask my readers to please indulge me while I have this private rant.
You see, every day I go to work within a challenging healthcare system while my Congressional representative plays games on Capitol Hill.
The good congresswoman to whom I elected appears to be sitting on the fence. Yes ma’am, I’m talking about you. I warned you that if you did not answer my e-mail then you WOULD read about it in my blog. Yes, I saw you in the TV commercial espousing “working to make a better healthcare system” and noted the sponsor: a pharmaceutical “foundation.” Pulleease. You were the first elected Democrat within my district since Noah launched his Ark and you have yet to commit an opinion regarding the public health option. Obviously you had an agenda when you entered public office and it did not include the constituents of your district.
What is it with Florida politicians that make you so ethically-challenged? The debacle of the 2000 election. Instant replay in 2004. Representative Mark Foley and his predilection for White House pages. Tom Feeney and the Abramoff scandal. And on and on and on. Is it something in the water?
They say the worst thing that anyone could ever witness is the making of political decisions and the way that sausages are made.
Well, please pass the sausage. I’ll take them over politics any day.
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Isn’t it frustrating? Democrats have big majorities and should be able to get a great health care bill done – but instead people like Kosmos (and she certainly isn’t the worst) seem far more interested in being reelected than actually doing the right thing.
My first blog post ever was a letter to Democrats urging them to just do the right thing and get a substantial reform bill done, reelection be damned. I doubt many read – and even fewer seem to get the point….
(sigh)
– hippieprof
Finally a freshman Democratic congressperson has found his voice.
Alan Grayson — who represents the district neighboring on ours (Suszanee Kosmas’) — has spelled out for Democrats and Republicans what the real world is (not only medically but politically) in which they are operating.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNpyGg_Sgo or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MefQYh6NCk&feature=related .
Representative Kosmas is understandably intimidated because right-wing Republicans are furious over her ousting, with the benefit of Obama’s coattails, of the unconscionable Tom Finney, who misrepresented our district for all too many years. They will no doubt mount an intense campaign to regain her congressional seat for their traditional backwards purposes.
But Alan Grayson’s experience makes it clear that her prospects for re-election are better to the degree that she truly represents the people who sent her to Congress on Obama’s coat-tails.
Check out the link above, and hear how Representative Grayson is benefiting from making himself heard on behalf of his constituents.
Representative Kosmas’ constituents need to make themselves heard to her if they expect her to make herself heard on their behalf.
Thank you SO much for your comments and the link to the YouTube video. If you could circulate this post to as many people in Kosmas district as possible, you’d be doing Florida and our healthcare system a tremendous favor.
Truly appreciate your comments!
Susan Kosmas would not have been elected in this Republican district had it not been for the extraordinary efforts of Obama supporters–young, Hispanic, African-American and Progressive–who worked so hard in the Florida sun to get new voters registered and to get them to vote. She has now stabbed those people, her president and the uninsured across the nation in the back. Concerned that individuals making $500,000 individually or $1,000,000 jointly will have to pay a few extra taxes so that less fortunate may not die for lack of health insurance or go bankrupt for not having enough, she now chooses to vote with the Republicans to kill our best chance ever for health care insurance reform. Not only has she made that decision, but she did so by announcing her intention in the Orlando Sentinel before she even listened to the House debate and while her office was still professing that she was undecided. She has thus demonstrated that she cannot be trusted and is unworthy of the hopes we vested in her. If she thinks by being indecisive and abandoning her base and the less fortunate she will advance her chances for reelection, I suspect she will be sadly mistaken. She will find that Republicans will never accept her and we who hoped for better from her will not make that mistake again.
Thanks for your reply, Bob. I was advised that there was going to be a protest @ her Orlando office last Friday @ 4:00 p.m. so she closed her office @ 3:00 p.m. Thank goodness the bill passed. However, I propose that we organize a “Day of Absence Regarding Susan Kosmas” committee. On Election Day 2010, we will simply not vote for her.
I am glad she voted no. Maybe you folks should be looking at the Fact that the Fed gave out 24.7 trillion dollars to a bunch of corrupt banksters. Or better yet maybe you should look at the Cap & Tax scam, NAFTA, GATT and the agenda 21. Health care is a smoke screen. Besides that why would anyone vote for a bill backed by three corrupt entities like AARP (the bill cut 50 Billion out of Medicare) AMA, and the Insurance industry?
Thank You Susan Kosmas! I have gained a lot of respect for you.