Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-El Segundo), has resigned her position as House Rep for the 36th Congressional District in Southern California. She has been the Congresswoman who has represented me since I can remember, although I cannot say that she was ever my Congressional representative.
Notwithstanding her party affiliation, I respected the fact that she was a firm and vocal advocate of the State of Israel. At one point, she was accused of secretly colluding with Israeli state officials in illegal negotiations, but those allegations were eventually found to be without merit.
I was also very sad to see her lose the chairmanship on the House Intelligence Committee, especially when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi was going to allow the judicial crook Alcee Hastings to fill the post. Even though the Speaker chose Congressman Silvestre Reyes as a compromise appointment, Jane Harman was certainly the more-qualified Congresswoman for the post, considering her extensive foreign policy experience and support of the Jewish State.
However, I am not sad to see Harman leave, for she voted vocally and proudly for Obamacare, a medical mandate which will impoverish the nation and forcibly limit the free enterprise system of health insurance and trade in this county. Her complete indifference to the will of her constituents on this issue was simply maddening. Elected officials must be responsive to the needs of their constituents, especially when they have voiced principled opposition unconstitutional acts.
The fact that Harman will end up as President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars underscores all the more where her true allegiances lie. We do not need any more liberal internationalists trying to mold individual nations into submitting their sovereignty into a tenuous alliance or tyrannical world government. As long as her new role mainly entails her buoying feckless scholars instead of distorting national policy, the United States will have less to fear from her than before.
It is certainly a moot point for me to add that, since I never once voted for this Congressman, I am all the more glad to see her moving on, no longer representing me or my district in Congress. Unfortunately, I fear that another, perhaps more radical, Democract will take her place, since the 36th District, from Playa del Rey to San Pedro, consistently votes for Democratic candidates.
At least the voters in this district will have another opportunity to make things right, perhaps even selecting a politician who will make it a point to stop Obamacare at all costs.