Minority Raises Its Profile

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 2, 2009 | Allie Winegar Duzett

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Minority Raises Its Profile

Allie Winegar Duzett, November 2, 2009

Yet another eloquent conservative spokesman whom media outlets can’t seem to find spoke at the Bloggers’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation last week. “For those of you who want to know, I’m not going to be on Dancing with the Stars,” Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) said, laughing about his relationship with former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay at a recent Heritage Foundation Bloggers’ Briefing.

“It’s been an interesting ten months,” Rep. Olson began, referring to the myriad of legislation the Obama administration has proposed: health care, cap and trade, et cetera. He described his own experiences with his constituents, noting that many of them are very upset with the state of national politics and were keen to ensure that good policies were being made. In this context, Rep. Olson made an interesting analogy: “[Creating public policy] is like sausage: it’s good to eat but you don’t want to see how it’s made,” he said.

He talked about the American Clean Energy Security Act, the “cap and tax” bill eight Republicans voted for in June 2009. “We ended up losing by 8, which ironically was the number of Republicans who voted for the bill,” Rep. Olson said, quick to claim that the bill would have passed without their votes anyway. “I think we’re doing a good job,” he said added, referring to himself and the other members of the Republican Party in Congress.

“But we’ve got a big challenge in communications,” Rep. Olson went on....

[Grams A]

Pete is one of the best I’ve ever had represent me in the 50 years I have been voting. Wish we could clone him!