Most days someone from Capitol Hill checks this blog. In the beginning they were doing Google blog searches for "Jeff Flake," but now we're getting blog searches for "Richard Grayson" too.
I've been trying to point out, often employing deliberately ludicrous and outrageous language, just how Rep. Jeff Flake's out-of-the-mainstream ideology has proven to be of no help to regular people in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District and elsewhere in the state and nation.
Word is coming to me that Rep. Jeff Flake has taken notice and has started to moderate his positions in view of the coming election.
The estimable blogger Random Musings discusses Rep. Harry Mitchell's H.R. 5740, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, which "is garnering widespread support among his colleagues (250 cosponsors and counting)." And then surprises us with this news:
Jeff Flake (R-AZ6), who, like Mikey of Life Cereal fame, 'hates everything' related to government spending, may sign on in support of the bill (which, by the way, would be this year's "Phoenix freezes over" moment if that comes to pass :) ). . .
Jeff Flake, the putative anti-government crusader, who is almost physically incapable of supporting anything that has even a hint of a whiff of help for the average American, veteran or otherwise, is considering throwing his support behind Mitchell's bill?
(Random Musings kindly links here to what he calls "Richard Grayson's chronicle of Jeff Flake's extremist ideology and ineffective representation of his district.")
Now today I check and see that the House passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (which I blogged about a few days ago) by a vote of 414-1, with Rep. Jeff Flake not joining Ron Paul (R-Pluto), his buddy from other lopsided votes, most recently one I blogged about yesterday).
Jeff Flake voted for against genetic discrimination. Good for him.
But, really, with every member of the Senate and House but one voting the same way, it's the least we can expect of Jeff Flake.
He's got a new campaign slogan:
Rep. Jeff Flake: I do the least you can expect from a congressman.
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