Blue America Chat: Congressman Raul Grijalva 1PM pst - Crooks and Liars

Blue America Chat: Raul Grijalva 1PM pst

by digby

Howie will be hosting a chat with Congressman Grijalva at 1PM today at Crooks and Liars to talk about this:


Howie writes:
Watch the video above that Grijalva asked me to post. It isn't about him. Its about the fight he's helping to lead to preserve our country for the middle class rather than just let conservatives take over and turn back the clock to a time when it was a country run by the rich for the rich, a time we're precariously close to again. “We understand we have issues to deal with in terms of the budget, but they should not be on the backs of working people. We should not rob them of their fundamental right to bargain collectively and be able to make their lives in the workplace and their homes better... Congress," he told me Tuesday afternoon after the vote on Boehner and Ryan's budget resolution, "is taking away money for agencies like this [job training], and I don’t understand the logic. How is this country going to get out of the economic situation we are in if we don’t have people prepared?”
Update: Here's former Wisconsin congressman David Obey denied access to the constitution: