Sunday, June 10, 2012

So what has Rep. Kay Granger been up to this week? Where is her moral compass? This week she voted to repeal a 2.3 excise tax on the makers and importers of certain medical devices. This tax was part of the expected revenue to fund the Affordable Healthcare Act, a vote to gut the President's health care plan. What does Kay have against affordable health care for everyone?  She voted against an amendment (obviously by a Democrat) that would keep the tax in place for companies that send American jobs overseas. It would appear that she would rather see American jobs lost than American jobs created. She voted against another Democratic amendment that would take 1% on a bill that would appropriate $32.1 billion for military and civilian energy programs and apply the savings to deficit reduction. The Republicans talk a good game about deficit reduction, but only when those reductions are applied to programs that actually help people. And that's not all! She voted against another amendment that would cap a program to upgrade our nuclear arsenal at $7 billion. The savings could also be applied to deficit reduction. Not done yet. Kay also voted to fund a program that would allow local law enforcement to enforce immigration law in some 100 communities. Can you imagine the racial profiling to which that would lead? And don't local police have enough to do without enforcing federal law, which is probably unconstitutional as well? By that reasoning we should let the FBI and CIA enforce local law. I'm not done yet! She also voted against and amendment that would transfer funds from detaining illegal immigrants to the budget charged with stopping sex trafficking and other forms of child exploitation. Who says the Republicans have the higher moral compass? Not according to votes Kay Granger cast on the above issues.

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