Unreal: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) "skipped his son's Saturday afternoon wedding in Iowa in favor of the contentious debate over the public insurance option and abortion funding," Roll Call reports.
Look, it's one thing to skip your son's wedding for an important vote in Washington. I get that -- the health care bill was of utmost importance to Representative King. But, it's something entirely different to politicize the whole thing. It was 'the best gift I could give my son'? Really?
Said King: "Not being here to cast a vote against this health care bill was never an option. I couldn't live with myself if the bill passed by just one vote, and I wasn't present."
King added that voting against the bill was "the best gift I could give my son."
As a son and a father myself, I would argue that the best gift you could give your son would be the gift of being present at his wedding. Look up Steve King in Webster's Thesaurus and you'll find that 'classy' is a synonym.
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