Wrong On Virtually Everything Else, California Crackpot Dana Rohrabacher Gets It Right On Ed Snowden

Chairman Rohrabacher of the Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee (r) plays dress-up with terrorists in Afghanistan

Generally speaking, southern California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is a dickhead. In the last few days, he again insisted that Climate Change is a "total fraud" and happily backed Obama's drone policies. “I don’t have anything against drone strikes, and I think that the administration has not been doing a bad job when it comes to using drones to single out and kill the terrorists who would harm our own people. We should use every technology that we can to target those terrorists who are murdering innocent, unarmed people in order to terrorize populations. The rest of the world understands. If they don’t, they are our enemies.”

But he got the most attention in his district for getting into a Twitter fight and tweeting he'd like to "defund white trash" (i.e., the Republican Party base).

Rohrabacher-- who has dismissively referred to Mexican immigrants as "wetbacks" and "Pedro," and called for hospital emergency room doctors to be legally banned from treating serious injured undocumented immigrants-- announced this week there is a group of Caucasians he's willing to throw overboard so the GOP's war on illegal immigrants can continue. Sorry "white trash," the Costa Mesa congressman isn't in your corner, which is odd given the makeup of his polyester-loving, fan club.

But he was correct about one of his pronouncements, at least: his defense of Putin's decision to grant asylum to Ed Snowden. He's the chairman of the Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee and he doesn't like Obama-- and virtually the entire DC Establishment-- has gone all out in condemning Putin for harboring Snowden.

“Snowden was just alerting us to our government getting out of hand. Russia accepting him for asylum I think was not as hostile an act as was being portrayed,” Rohrabacher said in an interview on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program.

Rohrabacher has jurisdiction over U.S.-Russia relations through his subcommittee.

Rohrabacher split with Democrats and Republicans who urged Obama to retaliate against Russia’s safeguarding of the former National Security Agency contractor who revealed classified details about programs to monitor millions of phone records and Internet communications.

At the urging of lawmakers from both parties, Obama cancelled a summit meeting with Putin that was scheduled next month in Moscow.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), an influential voice on foreign policy issues, last month said the United States should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia granted asylum to Snowden.

Rohrabacher argued that Russia is an important ally in fighting Islamic terrorism and containing Chinese expansion.

“I certainly would not have attacked president Putin himself and treated him like the enemy for granting asylum when we need his help,” he said.

...Rohrabacher also disputed Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) description of Snowden as a “traitor.”

  “Declaring What Mr. Snowden did by alerting the American people to over surveillance on the part of our own government, of our population, to call him a traitor, is going too far,” he said. “In fact, he was being loyal to the rest of us by letting the American people know that their government was getting out of hand.”

Earlier this year, Rohrabacher said Boehner should lose his speakership if he brings an immigration reform bill to the House floor that a majority of Republicans do not support.