Reflection on Janice Hahn's Debt Ceiling Vote

I applaud Congresswoman Hahn's rejection of the recently-passed Debt Ceiling Compromise. I despise her reasons for doing so.

She claimed to have heeded the will of her constituents, who "overwhelmingly asked me to oppose this deal.” Her culling a 55% majority in the recent special election hardly supports this self-congratulating contention.

She also added that she wants to "protect Social Security and Medicare and get to work investing in our future and creating jobs."

How does she intend to protect entitlements which are already bankrupt? How does refusing to face a yawning national debt inspire confidence in international investors to create jobs and improve the status of our devalued dollar?

Then she reverts to the tired liberal trope: "I cannot support a bill that asks nothing of millionaires and billionaires while asking hardworking Americans already struggling to sacrifice even more.”

As if taxing the already over-taxed wealthiest one-percent will contribute even a rounding error of reduction to the multi-trillion dollar liabilities weighing on this country.

Yet in spite of her leftist leanings, Congresswoman Hahn's head-in-the-sand ultra-liberalism may be useful to scuttling the status quo spirit of Compromise which still mars meaningful fiscal reform in Washington. Her strident political stance may inadvertently advance the more rational agenda of limited government and individual initiative which characterizes the CA-36th coastal communities.