Dick Black jumps the shark

Washingtonpost.com:

RICHMOND — A state legislator who once flew to Damascus for a two-hour sit-down with Bashar al-Assad took to the floor of the Virginia Senate this week to say the Syrian president might have been framed with a suspected chemical attack — if the attack happened at all.

“It is not entirely clear that there was an attack,” Sen. Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun) said in a 20-minute speech on the floor of Virginia Senate on Wednesday. “There was a doctor, from the hospital — from the main hospital in Douma — who has said, ‘We haven’t received any casualties. Nobody has been sent in.’ ”

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a global watchdog, has sent inspectors to Syria to try to confirm whether it was a chemical attack that killed dozens in Damascus on Saturday.

But in Richmond, the sequence of events was clear: Black spoke; Democrats erupted.

“While legislators from around the Commonwealth came to Richmond for a special session to work out a budget and deliver healthcare to 400,000 Virginians in the Medicaid coverage gap, Dick Black felt a better use of the people’s time was to mock Assad’s latest chemical atrocity as a ‘false flag’ attack,” the Democratic Party of Virginia said in a news release. “Black said not a word about the budget or helping uninsured Virginians, using his time only to offer a defense of one of the world’s most murderous dictators.”

What is Dick Black’s point?  Is he supporting genocide?  How does Black’s questioning of the use of chemical weapons on human populations possibly have anything to do with the budget?

Virginians who want to do the right thing are working feverishly to pass a bill that expands Medicaid in Virginia.  This expansion will enable 400,000 of our citizens access to medical care that they previously could not afford.

Dick Black goes for the absurd and tries to deny that men, women and children in Syria were not poisoned with what amounts to chemical warfare.  Why isn’t he more concerned about Virginians in his own state who are dying because they have limited access to medical care?

See COW PASTURE MEDICINE to see the desperate lengths people go to access health care.

Shame shame shame on those who try to thwart access to medicine for all Virginians.