Rep. Jeff Flake apparently hates college students.
Rep. Jeff Flake apparently hates the parents of college students.
Rep. Jeff Flake apparently hates any federal aid for higher education.
Rep. Jeff Flake is against "throwing money at education."
He's such a laissez-faire fanatic that he doesn't care what struggling families are doing to cope with the high cost of sending their kids to college.
He's such an extreme ideologue that he doesn't want to spend a single penny to help colleges educate American students for the future.
He's so out of step with mainstream American values that he was one of only four members of the House -- the others were fellow fanatics like the aptly named Rep. John Doolittle and extremist Rep. Ron Paul -- to vote against the reauthorizing of the 1965 Higher Education Act just to the end of this month, April 2008.
The law expired in March, and all this was doing was keeping it going temporarily till the end of April.
If Rep. Jeff Flake had his way, no college students would have gotten their student loan disbursements this month.
This was a simple housekeeping measure, supported by all the Democrats, 188 Republicans, President Bush, Education Secretary Spellings and every sane educator in America.
As a recent Republican vice president of the United States once said, bollixing up the slogan of the United Negro College Fund, "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all."
Has Rep. Jeff Flake finally lost his mind?
Or did he ever have one, at least as far as helping middle class families is concerned, in the first place?
If the voters of Arizona's Sixth Congressional District -- especially college students and their parents -- don't mind Jeff Flake's crazy votes and vote to re-elect him this November, one has to question whether we should be looking for their minds at the local Lost and Found.
Let's find a better Congressman than family-hating Jeff Flake.
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