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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUgh! Senate GOP just KILLED $1b Veterans Job's bill, Dem's feel 2 votes shy of 60
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/republican-objections-to-spending-in-veterans-jobs-bill-blocks-election-year-legislation/2012/09/19/cd14cd0a-0279-11e2-9132-f2750cd65f97_story.htmlhttp://www.rollcall.com/news/senate_gop_blocks_veterans_jobs_bill-217685-1.html?pos=hln
Senate Veterans' Affairs Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said the cost of the bill, $1 billion over five years, is offset. She noted that a vote to block the measure is tantamount to saying the nation has done enough for veterans.
"A vote to support this point of order says that despite the fact that we have paid for this bill, despite the fact that one in four young veterans are out of work, despite the fact that veterans suicides are outpacing combat deaths, and despite the fact that more and more veterans are coming home, we are not going to invest in these challenges," Murray said.
The nation owes veterans "more than just a pat on the back for their service," she continued. "We owe them more than bumper stickers and platitudes. We owe them more than procedural roadblocks that will impede our ability to provide help now and into the future. We owe them action."
Murray continued: "We owe them real investments that will help get them back to work. And that's what this bill does."
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)V FW,Legion,where to hell are you. Oh that's right,you always kiss the GOP's ass. What a disgrace.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)and to think I joined and paid the liftime membership fee to the VFW 8 years ago before I saw stuff like this.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Or did several more states get admitted to the union while I wasn't looking?
I wish that every single time the Repubs block legislation that ought to be passing by a simple majority, the Democrats would go very public with it. Very. Force them to do a real filibuster. Make them spend hours and hours reading from the phone book.
barbtries
(28,756 posts)sad to say i think the Dems are not pushing back hard enough because they'll be doing the same damn thing if republicans gain the majority.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)been remotely this obstructionist. Never.
barbtries
(28,756 posts)but i can't think of a reason otherwise.
GulleyJimson
(107 posts)As Gomer Pyle once said, "shame, shame, shame!"
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)is why when I make a prediction that Obama gets the white house and the Dems get the House. I can't say who gets the Senate. The conservatives have to be tossed. Including conservadems. Until that happens. shit like this will remain.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)barbtries
(28,756 posts)i just can't think of a way to express how much i loathe those fuckwads.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Flawed? Republicans say the spending violates limits that Congress agreed to last year.
Sounds lame.
Dems really need to hammer it that the Republican Congress have conspired to destroy all hopes of economic recovery.
Polls are still showing that Americans are disgusted with Congress but media coverage never goes any further than that. Here's one of the reason! I think it's time to use some of that dry powder!
librechik
(30,673 posts)so that Obama will look bad. What unAmerican jerks/ And I'm talking about the FUCKING BLUE DOGS who voted against this bill. I hope they lose and lose bad in their districts--and not to any FUCKING CREEPUBLICANS either.
DAMN IT TO HELL!!!
oh excuse me I just had to get that out.
Go to your districts and vote the Creepubs and Blue Dogs out of office or we'll never get change!
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)and yes, the Blue dogs are a curse!
The lot of them need to be taken to the woodshed.
They block a $1B Bill designed to help Veterans????!!!!!
$1 Billion is like a Ten-Dollar Bill to Romney's and Repubs deep-pocket boosters!
Did Boehner cry???
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)Unbelievable.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)along with a few more Senate seats.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)Great.
Next time they start a war, the veteran support better be 100% or they'll find themselves in the middle of a war they started.
Blue Idaho
(5,036 posts)Who is looking out for America's war veterans, senior citizens, very young, very old, and very sick and who is looking out for the tax advantages of the richest of the rich.
To hell with conservatism, its greedy, its spiteful, and its unpatriotic.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)A loud broadcast of THIS would
1) help the veterans and
2) Point up the need to adjust the filibuster rule
ananda
(28,831 posts)nt
nolabear
(41,930 posts)w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)I made sure DMN knows Cornyn and Hutchison did.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Go figure. GOPpers want to use the military for profit but when it comes to helping the veterans - they say FUCK YOU!
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Just when i think i've seen all these tea bag repubs are capable of obstructing they pull this ????? What ASS-HATS!!!!
Scalded Nun
(1,235 posts)the VFW or Legion. I put in over 20 years and I'll be damned if I'll join groups that just want to suck right-wing ass. They no longer can effectively represent the Veterans. Leadership within has been bought and paid for.
Wingers do not support the Vet. They might wave a flag, they might put on a bumper sticker. There ends their support. Wingers talk the talk, but very few ever walk the walk. Blood-lust as long as it is someone else's blood.
justgamma
(3,662 posts)Them's pretty words. Now call it what it is! Another Con filibuster blocking legislation.
glowing
(12,233 posts)adAna's against these Unpatriotic republicans not supporting Veterans.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)No Democrat defected and even Joe LIEberman voted for.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00193
atreides1
(16,064 posts)That stalworth supporter of veterans voted Nay...but when it's more important to suck up and kiss ass, no one even comes close to "The Most Irrelevant Man in the World."
BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)I just posted it on my FB page.
Shame on those who voted against.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)and the VFW and other veteran's organizations, won't be able to contribute to the GOP's political coffers and the pissed off vets, might not flock around people like Mitt and W and grin like big decked out pet possums, for the republican photo ops.
I'm a vet BTW, so put away your flame thrower.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)He said something about the people in the military that kinda went like this. They're just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign corporate interests.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)They don't care about African Americans, Latinos, Women, Union Workers, and now even GIs mean nothing to them. Who is left to vote for them? Maybe they plan to outsource the vote too?
Cha
(296,773 posts)to the teabaggers is their rich benefactors.
Cha
(296,773 posts)made aware of this. And, the fucking reCONS can't STOP saying they "support the VETS".
oliverrams1
(60 posts)OF MY SENATORS FROM TEXAS JUST VOTED AGAINST THIS BILL. ALL I SEE IS RED. I AM SO MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JOHN CORNYN (R-TX) AND KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON (R-TX)
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Send it to everyone your know.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)i love it when the repugs say "support the troops " . send em into harms way and here is the @#$%^&*() gratitude . bah humbug.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)ancianita
(35,926 posts)My theory is that his strategy to re-take the Senate lies with votes that piss off Dems back home. While the House is adjourned, the Senate can set up the blue dogs. Just a thought.
-Steph-
(409 posts)outsideworld
(601 posts)FUCK !!!!