Congressman Roskam, take down this website

If Illinois Sixth District residents want to know the important issues facing the district, state, nation and the world, they won't find it at www.roskam.house.gov. Peruse the title page and just shake your head that a five term congressman has the audacity to foist such nonsense and self-serving fluff on his constituents.

The page is composed of two sections. The first is a rotating group of three pop ups that one would surmise de...al with really important issues like racial profiling, global warming, immigration reform, end to our Afghan disaster or how to continue our 57 straight months of private sector job growth. No, two to the three concern Roskam's six year long vendetta to prevent, overturn or defund the Affordable Care Act, a transformational law which is giving hope, even life itself to forty million Americans absent from Roskam's congressional radar. The third concerns the earthshaking issue of encouraging drug manufacturers to fight Superbugs, assuming drug companies won't leave any money pit undug in their efforts to rake in more countless billions in exorbitant profits.

The second section consists of four topics, three of which are bizarre: Roskam welcoming a new fellow GOP co-chair to the House Republican Israel Caucus; Roskam welcoming new co-chairs to the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans; and Roskam's efforts to prevent funding to control the spread of Asian Carp from Lake Michigan. Woopie-doo! The fourth grapples with a serious, momentous issue: President Obama's normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Roskam's un-thoughtful take? "It's a dangerous mistake."

Last month the Congressman visited a fifth grade class at Indian Knoll School in West Chicago, to discuss the importance of political involvement. Maybe a good political exercise for the ten year olds would have been to design a congressional website that would enlighten, rather than insult the electorate. If one of the students would have submitted Roskam's home page, the red pen would be whipped out in an instant to write a big F... for fraudulent.