Now Isn’t That Special?

I learned from reading Illinois Review that Peter Roskam’s one-time boss Tom Delay had been in Lombard recently to “celebrate Jesus” and to help kick off a kooky website that Jesus has apparently recently established in Wheaton.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting and I wonder if Tom explained how Jesus, working through the prophet Jack Abramoff, led him to make it possible for garment workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas Islands to legally work in horrendous sweatshop conditions, free from interference by the Congress or U.S. labor regulators. Delay reportedly described the situation on the Islands as a “a perfect petri dish of capitalism”. Apparently Delay and Jesus hoped to eventually phase in these types of working conditions here on the mainland.

Now don’t get me wrong. As much as I disagree with Peter Roskam, he seems to be a person of honesty and integrity and worthy of respect. I don’t wish to smear him by association with someone he worked for a long time ago. What I am hoping for, what I want in my Congressman, is for him to stand up to the kind of intolerance being promoted by folks like the Culture Campaign and to temper his insistence on market-only solutions and to work to protect those who are vulnerable in society, like those workers in the Northern Marianas. The only aim of a post like this is to goad him in that direction. When I see that kind of movement maybe I’ll change the name of this site to “Re-elect RubberStampRoskam”