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Health Care Law Repeal Taken Up in the House?
As the Boehner and his lackey, Cantor, already know it isn’t going to happen. Even if the House passes a bill to repeal the Health Care law, the Senate isn’t going too, and even if that happens, the President is going to veto it.
One thing’s for certain, this is a huge waste of time, and money. It’s all a show, and the GOP members of Congress all know it’s a show, and the talking heads at FOX PAC all know it’s a show. The only people who don’t seem to know it’s a show are their supporters/viewers. The Tea Party folks, and Limbaugh listening, Beck watching, mindless conservative rabble. The people who all complain about the government until their trailer court gets hit by a tornado, or is flooded out by a hurricane. The ones who declare you can have their guns when you pry them out of their cold dead fingers. And Rush, Hannity et. al., will sing their praises and claim the Dems are the party of No, and their listeners will nod vigorously, while forgetting blissfully how the GOP – 99% of the time as a block – voted against everything in the past two years.
The GOP members of Congress, in the mean time, will all thump their chests and say, “We put up a valiant fight to repeal the evil Obamacare, but those nasty Democrats wouldn’t allow us to, all they wanted to do was obstruct, obstruct, obstruct!”
Gee, I wonder who those mean old nasty Democrats might have learned that tactic from?
And here’s another thought, there’s nothing more important right now for the GOP Congress to tackle?
Like, oh I don’t know?
Passing a budget?
After all, it was one of those things the GOP was all upset about until it came into power. Now suddenly it’s, “Budget, smudget we’ll get around to it after we do all this really important stuff”.
And, what about passing the Defense Authorization Bill?
Gee, maybe the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would like to know there’s money to support them?
I don’t know, maybe?
Not Patriotic?
This picture was taken on the 6th of January. Notice anything? Neither Cantor nor Boehner are wearing US Flag lapel pins. Doesn’t that signify a lack of patriotism? Not any more. But in 2008, then candidate Obama, was raked over the goals for not wearing a US Flag lapel pin.
This is the type of hypocrisy on parade that leads me to disbelieve anything these charlatans say about loving America. Or to ever take seriously their stunts, such as reading the Constitution on the floor of the House. Well almost reading the Constitution, except of course the parts referring to slavery, or the fact of skipping two whole Articles, and of course not including the 18th Amendment. Was that Speaker Boehner’s decision? Too many bad family memories?
9/11 Responders’ Aid Package Called Miracle?
Yeah, it’s a Christmas miracle alright.
It’s a miracle the GOP could actually be shamed into doing something it should have gone along with from the start.
But, an even bigger Christmas ‘miracle’, occurred when FOX PAC commentator Shepherd Smith stood up to point out just how wrong the GOP Senate was, asking, “How do they sleep at night?”
Shep Smith Shames Republicans On 9/11 First Responders Bill (VIDEO)
As commendable – and historic – as a FOX PAC commentator demonstrating they’re not all brainless automatons, Smith wasn’t alone (except at FOX PAC) in attacking the soulless Senators of the GOP. While he was putting pressure on the Republicans from within its inner circle, it was Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart who made them all look like the arrogant smucks they really are.
Stewart Spends Last Show Of 2010 ENTIRELY On 9/11 First Responders Bill (VIDEO)
Stewart referred to the GOP Senate members as “the Worst Responders”, sarcastically lauding their success in blocking the 9-11 legislation while passing a continuation of the Bush Tax cuts for everyone, especially the top 2% of Americans.
“Yes!” Stewart exclaimed. “That is astoundingly good news for firefighters who make over $200,000 a year.”
Stewart didn’t just attack the GOP Senate for its opposition however, he also attacked all the news networks, pointing out how none of them – with the exception of Smith’s comments – were airing this story. Well, all except for Al Jazeera.
“Our networks were scooped with a sympathetic Zadroga Bill story by the same network Osama bin Laden sends his mix-tapes to!” a clearly frustrated Stewart said. “This is insane!”
And it was insane! What other word fits to describe the actions of the GOP Senate? For nearly a decade the GOP has made 9-11 it’s personal political rallying cry, waving it around like a bloodied flag. With it’s unconscionable delaying of benefits however, it has forfeited its right to ever evoke that sacred cash cow again. It is one more example of how hypocritical the GOP really is, and voters need to remember this in two years.
Every GOP Senator who opposed this bill needs to be heavily campaigned against in their next election. They need to be sent packing for this one shameful action alone.
It’s Disrespectful to Christmas to Ratify an Arms Treaty?
Who knew that ratifying an arms treaty was disrespectful to a holiday dedicated to ‘peace on earth’ and ‘goodwill towards men’?
All the top brass supports the ratification of the new START Treaty, as do all the six living former Secretaries of State. Who opposes it? The GOP Senate. The same group of petulant whiners who oppose the Defense Authorization Act – funding for our troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq – and the 9-11 Responders Act – you remember them? The men and women who sacrificed so valiantly to save others on that day, and following days and weeks.
“The fact that we’re doing this under the cover of Christmas,” whined Sen. Jim DeMint (P-S.C.), “is something to be outraged about.”
Here’s something to be outraged about you bone head! Troops are serving overseas this holiday season, and some may be wounded, and others might die on Christmas, because morons like you – who never had the guts to put on the uniform – put them there. Shut up, and get to work, and spare us your right-wing hypocritical religious nonsense. You stood in the halls of the Senate and voted no to everything for two years, and now you’ll have to work. Call whine one one.
And the whining continues with the so-called leader of this group of sniveling, weeping legislators, Sen. Jon Kyl (P-Ariz.), going on record saying the Democrats’ legislative agenda amounts to ‘disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians.'”
You too Senator “I couldn’t be bothered to ever serve my country”. SHUT UP, QUIT YOUR WHINING! GET TO WORK!
What could be more respectful at Christmas than for you bunch to pull your collective heads out of your fourth points of contact and ratify a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. Ever heard of “Peace on Earth”?
Of course guys like DeMint have cried out, “We haven’t had enough time to read this and study it out.” You’ve only had eight months Senator Hypocrit. That’s all, just eight short months. SHUT UP AND GET IT DONE!
GOP Senators Vote Against Extending Benefits to 9-11 Responders?
Yes Virginia, it’s true. There is a Santa Claus, and the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) knows no bounds when it comes to parading its hypocrisy for all the world to see.
All 47 GOP Senators have voted not to extend benefits for 9-11 First Responders.
SEN Mike Enzi of Wyoming defended his vote by saying, “The nation can’t afford careless spending, no matter how well intentioned,” following that up with, “…it would be irresponsible to give them more.”
Let me get this straight. It is “irresponsible” and “careless spending” to give an additional $7.4 billion to help take care of those who risked their lives to rush to help others trapped in the rubble of 9-11, but it’s OK to extend the Bush tax cuts – adding an additional $700 BILLION to the deficit – to the wealthiest 2% of Americans?
As Daily Show’s Jon Stewart put it, “You know what republicans? You use it so much (9-11 imagery) if you don’t owe the 9/11 responders health care, at least you owe them royalties.”
It’s official, GOP hypocrisy absolutely knows no limits.
The days when any GOP candidate, or office holder, could cash in on how much deeper they understood the heroism, tragedy and repercussions of 9-11 are now over. Do not ever go there again!
Day #40 of GOP Control of the House
Day #40 dawned, and lo, a new call was heard as the Dark Riders rode through the capital, “DEFICIT! DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO! DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO!”
Dark Riders Roam the Halls of Congress …
And so the 30th day comes, and with it comes the darkness. The poor are to be trampled upon forth with, and those who will not work are to be thrown out upon the street … DEFICIT! DEBT! The Dark Riders shriek, as they ride the halls of Congress … DEBT! DEFICIT!
Billions for Iraq and Afghanistan but not a penny for free loading Americans!
Ho, ho, ho … GOP Blocking Unemployment Insurance?
And to start this holiday season off right the GOP is blocking continuance of unemployment insurance! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Get a job! (cue GOP favorite Christmas jingle, Bruce Hornsby’s “The Way it Is”) I always suspected Mr. Potter, Scrooge and Marley belonged to that caucus.
I can hear my conservative friends now, “But, you know the deficit is way too high and the national debt is staggering”
And that my friends, is why Boehner and company are holding out to raise both by another $800 Billion to continue a tax break for the top 2% of Americans?
GOTP Leaders Tell Smithsonian to Pull ‘Homoerotic’ Exhibit?
While I agree the so-called “art” featuring religious symbols (i.e. the crucifix in a bottle of urine, or a crucifix being crawled on by ants) shouldn’t be in the Smithsonian, and shouldn’t be funded by tax payer’s dollars – if indeed it is
With that being said, and with so many other “real” problems confronting us, like, oh I don’t know, the fact American’s unemployment insurance has ended, maybe Republican Tea Party (GOTP) leaders like Boehner, Cantor, and company, should be spending time on other things beside censorship?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-gop-leaders-tell-smithsonian-to-pull-homoerotic-exhibit/
Just to clarify the situation, I don’t believe there is any “homoerotic art” in the so-called “homoerotic” exhibit … I have looked through it, and once again the GOTP Thought Police, have overstepped its bounds … It isn’t that there’s “homoerotic” art in the exhibit, it’s all about the fact the museum has chosen to feature an exhibit by Gay and Lesbian artists. It’s about state funded discrimination – which is wrong. I agree the American people shouldn’t be funding “offense” art to hang in the “people’s” museum – the Smithsonian – but this is not the case here.
By-the-way, who appointed the GOTP to be America’s conscience? Can we choose a body of people less inclined to invoke God’s name while violating any number of His commandments? Please? Anybody else?
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