The emails I got today from Team Obama asking me to call my representative - Pete Olson - requesting he vote "yes" for health care reform, would be amusing, if the situation wasn't so pathetic.
When Republican Olson ran against Nick Lampson, I knew our congressional district would get ignored by the Democratic President, the Democratic Congress and the Democratic Senate, if he - Olson - won. Any thinking person could see that coming, except for the non-thinking voters in Clear Lake. But, I never dreamed a whole industry would get lopped off because of the nasty campaign Olson ran, lying to voters about Lampson being a promise breaking, big spending lover of Nancy Pelosi. It's a little hard to crank up the imagination and envision JSC getting thrown in the ditch if Lampson were our congressman.
It's also a little hard for me to imagine how stupid Olson is not to connect the dots and realize that the loss of 8000 jobs (or whatever the number is today) in his district, might require health insurance reform for the newly unemployed, and their families.
I think the situation sounds JSC dire. Mayor Parker came back from DC reporting she asked NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to allow JSC a "soft landing" and not a sudden loss of all of the jobs. I read several versions of this story and they all gave me the sense she didn't hear good news in her meetings. I think JSC employees and contractors thought she was going up there to save the day, not lessen the inevitable pain.
We'll have Olson voting no on health care reform, even though 19.6 percent of his constituents in TX-22 are uninsured. 19.6% and growing.
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