Loss Roskam's opportunity to serve district

Though visibly disappointed, my congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) should view his loss to Steve Scalise (LA-1) to be House GOP Whip as a wonderful opportunity to finally serve his district and the national public interest. Losing to Scalise, a rightward tilt (if that's possible) to placate the most virulent Red State conservatives, means Roskam will likel...y be bounced from his Chief Deputy Whip job to allow Scalise to pick a political supporter for this key No. 4 House GOP leadership position. The opportunity, if Roskam can have an epiphany and seize it, exists because he will no longer be charged to robotically count votes to pass the obstructionist Tea Party legislation designed to demean, destroy and prevent any sensible polities to create jobs, prevent raising the minimum wage, extend unemployment insurance to the chronically unemployed, fix our broken immigration system, deny women full reproductive freedom, extend full civil rights to the LGBT community, and halt the destruction of Mother Earth with 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' He will no longer be locked into the heartless leadership responsibility to overturn, defund and delegitimize the Affordable Care Act which is keeping tens of millions from financial ruin, diminished health and even death from the worst health care delivery system in the industrialized world. Out of House GOP leadership, Roskam can actually break with the largely GOP war party which demonizes President Obama over his efforts to resist mindless calls for more senseless military adventurism, the one aspect of government the Tea Party controlling the House GOP leadership supports. Peter Roskam has spent the last three and a half years supporting all those despicable policies as Chief Deputy Whip...to the Sixth District's sorrow. In his letter to House GOP colleagues promoting his conservative bonafides, Roskam touted his obstructionism like a badge of honor when it simply was a lesson in insatiable ambition at the expense of the public interest. With a half year to go in his fourth term, Roskam still has time to make up for his stint as Chief Deputy Obstructionist by finally opening his heart and soul to the devastating carnage wrought to the body politic by the Tea Party fanatics.

 

Roskam getting dumped by the Tea Party is small potatoes. Roskam dumping the Tea Party would be huge. Ponder that, Congressman.