Congressman Roskam's 42nd vote to defund Obamacare most heartless of all

My Congressman Peter Roskam's obsession with defunding Obamacare and dashing the hopes, solvency and lives of the 40 million Americans shut out of decent health care till this law was passed three and a half years ago, is nothing if not persistent. Yesterday, the Congressman, enjoying among the most lavish health insurance policies extant, Congresscare, voted for the 42nd time to defund the Affordable Care Act. What makes his 42nd vote to abolish so mendacious, is that this one was tied to keeping the government open. You heard that right folks. House party leader Roskam ignored more sensible Senate Republicans, a dozen of which called Roskam's support of the bill designed to defund Obamacare or risk government shutdown, "foolish" and "dumb", to cast his dastardly vote. Even Republican representative Hal Rogers (Ky-05), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, cautioned Roskam and his Tea Party fanatics, "I'd like to remind my colleagues … both in the House and the other body, that a government shutdown is a political game in which everyone loses. "It shirks one of our most basic duties as members of Congress, and it puts our national security at stake. To be clear...if we embark on a government shutdown, the consequences are severe. Our brave men and women in uniform don't get paid, our recovering economy will take a huge hit. A government shutdown, even the illusion of the threat of a shutdown, says to the American people that this Congress does not have their best interests at heart."
 
Congressman "Defund Obamacare for the 42nd Time's" website, www.roskam.house.gov, uses the classy term "train wreck law" to justify these 42 heartless and hurtful votes. If he wants to see a train wreck while cruising at 200 MPH in his bullet healthcare train unavailable to most Americans, he should spend a few hours with the tens of millions going broke, suffering diminished health or even dying from his cavalier governance. Oh, I forgot, he wouldn't leave the gravy train he rides in for one minute, much less a few hours, to learn from the folks he pretends do not exist.