Monday, November 18, 2019

Ron not being so Kind? That's a good thing

I caught this summary of US Rep Ron Kind's appearance on the “UpFront” talk show, which discussed impeachment and other issues in DC. And it perked my ears up a bit.
Republicans are airing ads and trying to ramp up pressure on Kind and other Democrats who represent districts Trump won. Kind said it’s Republicans who have pre-judged the case.

“They clearly haven’t seen all the evidence, all the facts or heard all the testimony and yet they’ve clearly already reached a conclusion,” Kind said. “They pre-judged this many months ago, I’m afraid.”

I also note this response from Rep. Kind on the US-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (aka NAFTA 2.0), which Trump and other GOPs keep trying to push to distract from the Trump trade policies that have led to numerous farm failures in Kind’s district.
Kind also was asked whether he would support the USMCA, the new trade deal the Trump administration struck with Mexico and Canada. It awaits a vote in the House.

Kind said he is seeking changes to the agreement, because “what they negotiated was very weak and poor when it comes to enforcement provisions.”

“If it lacks meaningful enforcement; it is meaningless,” Kind said. “I don’t want to support an agreement that can be ignored by the other two countries.”
And in case you’re wondering about why the usually well-coiffed Kind now has a new look, it turns out that one of his sons has cancer, and so he and the other guys in his family went with buzz cuts out of solidarity.


I think the look's an upgrade, Ron. And it goes with a surprisingly bad-ass turn from the Congressman from Wisconsin’s 3rd district in recent months. It sure beats the cautious, milquetoast corporatist we've seen for much of this guy’s 20+ years in Congress - a guy I was very critical of for not publicly backing impeachment for many months.

More of this please, Rep. Kind! His statements also indicate to me that quite a few of the people in Western Wisconsin that took a chance on Trump in 2016 now recognize that betting on an amoral New York real estate guy wasn’t such a good move, and hasn’t made them or our country better off.

By comparison, check out the increasingly disgraceful act of Wisconsin's other Ron in DC.

2 comments:

  1. I had trouble getting past the first minute of the video. They show a hit and run that looks like it killed a person. What is wrong with people in this state?

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  2. Kind has spent decades in a mental fog of moral, ethical and civic complacence. And what has happened to his home state as he enjoyed his halcyon, salad days?
    Are we to welcome home the comfortable prodigal son with open arms now that he has received the most gentle of nudges out of his safe place...or do we tell him to work is ass off to undo all he has aided and abetted by sheer force of his willful blindness and knee-jerk apologism?

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