Republicans AGAIN block unemployment extension for Americans...right before Christmas!
Merry Christmas: various millionaire Republicans with government health care voting against unemployment...but saying they're "for it". Keep in mind, their talking point is that they're "for" extending unemployment benefits "as long as they are paid for". So, they use unemployed Americans to teach a lesson to about paying for a bill, but have no problem NOT paying for tax cuts for the wealthy and the decades long wars...among many other things they vote for that aren't paid for:
Rep. Shadegg Scoffs At The Fact That Jobless Benefits Are A Benefit To The Economy: ‘No, They’re Not!’
Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners
Rep. Joe Wilson Thanks C-SPAN Caller For Anti-Gay Remarks
For REAL: Death Panels in Arizona; Americans dying from health care rationing:
Mother Kept In “Glass Cage” For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting Over Breast Milk (w/videos)
Peep-and-Grope (Body Scanners and Invasive Pat Downs): Coming to Subways, Trains, Boats and Federal Buildings?
This is going to be great: when the body scanners and pat downs come to AMTRAK...and the passengers have guns!!!
Amtrak will allow passengers to bring guns on most trains starting next month
Ft Hood: Counter-Terrorism, FBI to Join Amtrak?
Dear Wikileaks: Leak the Bank Records NOW, Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Flashback: Wikileaks chief said he has 5GB of secret docs on Bank of America (exclusive)
The British Government gave secret assurances that it would “protect US interests” in the Iraq War inquiry, leaked diplomatic cables show.
Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton "Should Resign"
Exclusive: Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strategy for regime change in Iran
C-Span mic catches US Senator’s candor: The Senate ‘is all rigged’
Hapless Senator Admits Obvious: Political Process a Rigged Game
Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: ‘It’s all rigged’
Interestingly, the top four receivers of contributions from groups that supported the bill actually voted against it, most likely because they are all Republicans and the bill was authored by Democrat Richard Durbin. Even so, these include Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) who received $503,700, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who received $415,899, Jon Kyl (R-AZ) who received $335,377, and Richard Burr (R-NC) who received $317,086.
The top receivers of contributions from groups that supported the bill, and who ended up voting in favor of it, include Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) who received $301,776, Ben Nelson (D-NE) who received $245,906, Charles Schumer (D-NY) who received $179,435, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) who received $149,278.
Industry bought Congressional votes to pass S. 510 food safety bill
Food Safety Bill "It's All Rigged!"
FBI "patsy": the FBI gave this kid the plans, bombs, everything...then said they stopped a terrorist attack that would have otherwise never occurred!!!
Alleged Portland Bomber To Claim Entrapment
Mohamud Arraignment Report
Actual evidence of collusion between the GOP and Obama administration to obstruct justice in an international war crimes case:
ReplyDeleteCorn reports that Mel Martinez, an ex-Republican Party chairman, along with a US embassy charge d'affaires, met with Spanish Foreign Minister Angel Lossada to discuss the prosecution. They reportedly told the foreign minister that the case "would have an enormous impact" on US-Spanish relations.
"Here was a former head of the GOP and a representative of a new Democratic administration (headed by a president who had decried the Bush-Cheney administration's use of torture) jointly applying pressure on Spain to kill the investigation of the former Bush officials," writes Corn. "[A]s this WikiLeaks-released cable shows, Gonzales, Haynes, Feith, Bybee, Addington, and Yoo owed Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thank-you notes."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/obama-spain-bush-torture-prosecution/
This also appears to be evidence that the entire two-party scam is just a charade. They all know they work for Rockefeller.
From the comments on the Raw thread - great comment:
ReplyDeletethe U.S. putting pressure on the criminal justice system of a sovereign state. That could never happen in Sweden, could it?