Local Republican leader Michele Monda asserts that Dana Rohrabacher is doing his job. He is not.
Even after taxpayers have–for decades–footed the bill for his salary, Rohrabacher does not understand that those in CA-48 who do not support his agenda are still his constituents. He openly expresses contempt for them on his social media platforms, which Monda suggested we read, and states that he follows only what he believes in deciding how to vote.
For instance, Rohrabacher’s stated commitment to “liberty” does not extend to his female constituents. Just last month, he voted to interfere with women’s health coverage by denying ACA insurers the ability to provide coverage for abortions. He has also voted on multiple occasions over his career against the Violence Against Women Act. And his “right to life” commitment appears to stop at birth. While he has consistently supported anti-abortion bills, in 2010 he was one of just 64 House members to vote against funding programs aimed to reduce infant mortality (H.R. 3470). He is also steadfastly anti-environmental and a climate change-denier, willing to sacrifice our beautiful coast, along with the rest of the earth, to stay in good with his fossil fuel “constituents”.
Most troubling, though, is Rohrbacher’s steadfast devotion to Putin, and his conspicuous silence as we learn more and more about Russian interference into our election and beyond. His constituents have asked him repeatedly and emphatically to address the Trump campaign/administration-Putin relationship, which appears to be wide and deep. Rohrabacher will not even go on record to take a stand on the issue, much less lift a finger in Washington to protect us against this frightening, ongoing threat to our democracy.
Monda can say that the time Rohrabacher spends in D.C. is being used “to secure our local and national interests,” but that does not make it so. He has thousands of constituents, like me, whose interests are ill-served by his radically extreme agenda.
Mona Lynch, Laguna Beach
Give me a break. Obviously this girl does not keep up with facts the Russia thing is made up by the dems hilarious the ml radical agenda is what Obama has been doing to this country.
He may well find he’s on the wrong side of history when this whole Trump-Putin thing finally shakes down
He blocked me on his twitter just for questioning his seeming devotion to Russia and Putin. This man does not represent a large number of his constituents. Bob Costas should run against him.
Contrary to Mona Lynch’s onslaught of whines and attacks, there are other points of view to be considered. Dana Rohrabacher’s agenda is anything BUT “radical.” The Democratic Party should be prosecuted under the RICO Act as a criminal conspiracy. Nor is abortion so much a matter of “women’s health” as it is a reprehensible excuse to murder living babies as a matter of financial and social convenience. Recall that Norma McCorvey lied in her case of Roe v. Wade by claiming to have been raped. So the very law itself should be overturned on that evidence. Rohrabacher can’t please everyone. Doesn’t Mona even know that? Rational people survived eight miserable years of Obama’s incompetence, overspending, and support of Islamofascists worldwide. President Trump hasn’t been in office two months and Leftist Extremists (but I repeat myself) are rioting, protesting everywhere, and showing themselves to be petty and childish. It’s time for you whiners to try to cooperate, for the sake of our next generation. Or is that too much to ask? I feel quite sure that it is.
Notwithstanding your need to use “whining” to describe discourse that you do not agree with, you completely miss the point. Elected officials represent the entire congressional district, not just the people who agree with them. Mr. Rohrabacher has not learned that lesson, even after all these years. I am not whining or rioting, nor being petty or childish. I am expressing my opinion which is supported by evidence and facts, including Mr. Rohrabacher’s abysmal voting record.
As to your comments on abortion, clearly you do not understand that a woman’s right to control her body stems from the right to privacy, as established in Griswold v. Connecticut, which gave Americans the right to use birth control. Roe v. Wade extended that right to privacy that allows us autonomy in our most personal decisions. Surely you should appreciate that right.
Finally, as to your assertion that Mr. Rohrabacher is not extreme, I think his visit this month with Europe’s most extreme white nationalist, Marine Le Pen, ostensibly to discuss “liberty” suggests otherwise. He refuses to meet with his constituents at home while sharing his time and ideas with other extremists around the globe.
I did NOT “miss the point.” You are pointless.
It is impossible to represent everyone in the manner you so imperiously demand, and you know it. You simply play word games, as liberals always do about everything.
For example, YOU clearly do not understand that a man may be charged for child support for eighteen years should his child be delivered. But you deny him any voice whatsoever in whether or not he can have and hold his own flesh and blood. Killing a human being is NOT “privacy,” especially months into the development of a baby. It is NOT a “right” except by the decision of a very small number of Supreme Court members who were lied to, that Norma McCorvey had been raped. She had not, as we all know now. Slavery, once legal, was reluctantly outlawed by Republicans, even as it was defended by Democrats, who fought the Civil War to protect their right to own and mistreat human beings. Sound familiar? It should.
Nothing in America is more extreme than butchering 1,000,000 innocent babies every year, who are disproportionately black and poor. You call that a “right.” It is more properly called not just “wrong” but “evil.”
A young wife goes to the hospital because of what is mistakenly thought to be appendicitis. “The doctors had to put ice on her stomach, her belly,” the man says.
In between phrases picked out on the piano, he adds: “At the end of these treatments, the doctors advised her to abort the child. They told her that would be the best solution because the child would doubtless be born with some kind of disability.
“But the courageous young wife decided not to terminate the pregnancy and the child was born. The woman was my mother, I was the child,” says world famous tenor, Andrea Bocelli.
So much for “choice” and “privacy” and other evil word games that kill.
Perhaps there is a case to be made for abortion in the case of rape, provided it is within sixty days. But for convenience, and especially after there is a beating heart… no.
Mr Jaeger, you have made very clear your commitment on this issue. If Mr. Rohrabacher is your representative in Congress, I wonder how you feel about his vote against the 2010 NEWBORN Act (H.R. 3470) which provides funds to programs to reduce infant mortality in areas with high infant mortality rates. The bill passed with bi-partisan support, yet he voted with a minority of other members of Congress against it. To me, this suggests Mr. Rohrabacher is a cynical political operator, trying to appease voters like you who care about the abortion issue, rather than someone truly committed to the cause of life.
You Trump-haters have made very clear your opinions for the past two months, and still you continue to pound and rant and rave and scream, like spoiled brats throwing a perpetual tantrum.
If you were “committed to the cause of life,” you would support enforcing federal immigration laws, and deporting criminals who are in America illegally. But you do not. Rather you prefer to scream and rant “racism.” Tell your story to the many families of victims who have been murdered, or raped, or robbed by illegal aliens and so-called “refugees” from Middle East crapholes. Tell that to the Saudi Arabian government, which is currently deporting 80,000 Pakistanis. Then let readers here know what country doesn’t enforce its own laws against people entering without official permission, through that government’s checkpoint. Mexico, to name but one, doesn’t let you hold a job unless you are a Mexican citizen! And they hate El Salvadorians.