GOP blocks vote on 9/11 responders
 

Last Thursday, the Senate Republicans prevented - filibustered - the House-passed bill providing health care to 9/11 responders from coming to the Senate floor for a vote. All 42 Republicans voted against bringing this bill to the Senate floor for a vote. Because, you know, it's not important for the Senate to discuss and vote upon this issue. At least the minority sez so.
Thus, the bill is currently dead.

The hilarious - well, pathetically sad - thing is this: Faux News has an op-ed, complete with sad music, railing against how evil "the Congress" is for not helping the 9/11 responder heros - while completely failing to note it was 42 Republicans - and zero Dems - who prevented this vote and are entirely responsible for this bill's failure. Go, "fair and balanced" ! And emotionally overwrought <g>

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012130016

Good. They don't deserve special treatment at the expense of taxpayers.


Go f.uck yourself, you disingenuous libtard.

You always bring your very best to Derby Trail discussions.

Yeah, the 9/11 responders deserve some extra help. The GOP won't even allow it to be discussed. They are the ones that need to go f.uck themselves.

How about the Katrina responders?

Lets just keep printing money. F.uck it. Keep this faux Utopia alive.

As if the Democrats are a perfect Political Party.

What about the Ike responders?

Did NYC stop health care to its employees?

$7 billion for 20K workers amounts to 350K a head. There's a leak somewhere and thank God someone is looking out for 'our' money. Like I said get used to it NO!


Now if the GOP has the guts to stand up to this over inflated disguised tax break all is good IMO. When the 'most left' of the left are on the same side as the tea party 'tea baggers' surely they're on to something!

They aren't. But they are not the ones that have blocked mere discussion of every single thing in the Senate until they are guaranteed that the top 2% of wealthiest earners in the country won't have their tax rate raised from 36% to 39%.

Right Dell, the GOP is the "responsible party of no". LOL! Because concern for the wealthiest among us is SO much more important to our country right now than unemployment insurance extensions so 2 million people won't risk starvation for Christmas. Or 9/11 responders being treated as the heros they were.

We all know exactly who the current GOP stands behind, and what they stand for. They've made that clear as day.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-epi...0-gordon-brown

LMAO yea they'll be starving in the streets.

Look at the bright side it's a START on their obese children!

But won't they be heralded as such at the muslim community center?

BTW how about going after the people responsible for 9/11 for retribution?

You think that millions of the people that have been out of work a year and a half haven't already lost the house, gone through their savings, are depending upon food banks for food, etc? And "they" all have obese children? Two million will not have any money for food in two weeks. Yeah, that's a real LMAO situation.

You're a piece of work.

Yeah, we haven't done that, have we? What marginalized, imaginary world do you live in? :zz:

did the plaintiffs settle?

And what was the case number so I can look it up.

That's what world I live in!

Read again I said nothing about ALL I'd revert to Michele O for stats on what percentage of those kids are.

I'd wager that the VAST majority of unemployed are closer to a job than starvation but then again I don't live in KY so it may be different there.

In my area many of 'the starving' are selling food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar. Same w/their prescription medicine. And a lot of their kids are obese!

This is indefensible, which is evident since the Republicans didn't even defend it. They just no-showed.

just an fyi-the federal govt funds clinics with free testing and treatment already. congress currently funds this on a year to year basis. the clinics have said that even if the bill just filibustered didn't pass, they have plenty of money set aside to continue testing and treament for some time. altho i'd have to think that the yearly funding will continue...however, there is still thinking that the bill could pass come the next congress.

Where would the money come from for this health care for these people? Oh wait lets just take from Social Security and the Military's pay.

It's embarassing as an American to read some of the comments in this thread.

and its the comments that DON'T come from Riot or Zig.

Maybe I should move to France.


F.uck Yeah! I need moar political b.s.!! Give teh responders everything!! They are better than other responders across teh country!!