| UPDATE:Oops, I misspelled Congressman Rohrabacher's name. I corrected it. Oh, and is this post-partisan, too?
For the last few years, the Congressional delegations of large states like Texas and Pennsylvania have met to discuss issues important to the state. The California delegation, ummm...well they met one time in 2005 to welcome the Schwarzenegger to town. The Democratic delegation, led by Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), has sent numerous letters to the leader of the GOP delegation, David Dreier (R-Closet), requesting a meeting of the delegation. The response from Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) was, well, classic Rohrabacher:
"The only thing I see coming out of meeting with Democrats is that Democrats try to pressure Republicans from California to be irresponsible and spend more money," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach.
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"They don't have to convince me to support good projects from California," he said. "But this idea that people with different ideologies can get together and find a middle ground, it just doesn't happen.
"Democrats may honestly believe if you get together and hold hands and sing `Kumbaya,' the world is going to be more peaceful. That's not what Republicans believe," he said. Those comments, not surprisingly, touched off some sniping among Democrats. (LA Daily News 1.16.07)
You'd think now that they are in the minority, they'd at least be interested in talking to the rest of the delegation. Not so much. Ol' Dana puts his attitude, and his outsized ego, over what is best for his constituents. Fancy that, a Republican with an attitude problem. Why, that's as rare as a pigeon in San Francisco. |
