Congressman Roskam Governs to His Core Constituency: The 1 Percent

IL Sixth District Congressman Peter Roskam's refusal to debate challenger Leslie Coolidge is one nod to Roskam's true core constituency: the 1%. 
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, that seeks to avoid any debate with a challenger who will bring up economic fairness in a tax code being forever tilted in their favor.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, ginned up the phony debt ceiling crisis last year to bring a halt to economic recovery, the credit for which would adhere to the President, not them.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, sought to prevent a restructuring of our health insurance industry designed to deliver health care to the forty million without, simply because it jeopardized their gargantuan profits.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, seeks to privatize social security to bring even more unimaginable wealth to the Wall Street boys who nearly collapsed our economy in 2008.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, plans to gut Medicare with a voucher system which will shift our exploding health care costs onto the backs of needy seniors.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, votes to preserve subsidies for Big Oil, the nation's most profitable companies.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay act, which had the audacity to legislate fair pay to women, a constituency virtually invisible in the 1%.
 
This is the group that, working through Roskam, delays domestic infrastructure rebuilding, as any infrastructure rebuilding not earmarked for our colonies in the Middle East is not on their agenda.
 
I can't speak for the 99%, but if you're rating Congressman Roskam on his fealty and responsiveness to the 1%, I'd rate him 100%.