Sen. Wyden’s Release On His Trip To Japan

[stevedeshazer]

1. He's my Senator, and he's a year too late. This is just more grandstanding.

I have completely lost confidence in Senator Wyden. His Medicare stunt with Paul Ryan did it for me.

Oregon is sufficiently blue that Wyden could get tossed by a more progressive primary challenger in 2016. I'll be first in line to work for such a candidate.

I don't know what happened to this guy. He's Oregon's Joe Lieberman. He doesn't even live here. It's a pity, because the guy was once a leader in progressive politics in Oregon. He's basically a carpetbagger from New York now, no offense to New York, but I like my Senators to actually be from the state where I live.

It's like he somehow figured out a year later that the Fukushima disaster is a big deal. Well, no shit Sherlock! And Oregon, along with all of western North America from Alaska to California, was the recipient of radioactive fallout an entire damn year ago. Way to go, buddy! Thanks for nothing!

Now, his most recent proposal is to provide college kids with a spreadsheet to explain the costs of college loans. Not a plan to rectify the ridiculous truth that American college grads owe ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in a nation that should instead find a way to educate young people in an increasingly competitive world.

Sorry, but we Lefties don't owe him any favors.