Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/09/senate.9.11.responders/index.html?hpt=T1" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITI...l?hpt=T1</a> This one ought to be fun to watch people defend. Apparently it costs too much to take care of the men and women who became ill after responding to 9/11. There are no words to describe this level of heartlessness.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 With Obama in office they no longer have to run on the FEAR & 9/11 platform. They can now run on the FEAR & OBONGO (GET IT HE IS BLACK AND A SOCIALISTS AND A TERRORIST SPY) platform.
Originally Posted By ecdc Apparently I'm not the only one disturbed by this. Jon Stewart has covered this extensively this week. He noted that none of the major news stations have covered it, and Fox News, usually so easily outraged over any 9/11 injustice (including the mosque that isn't a mosque) has been silent. In fact, the only media outlet to devote a full broadcast to it in defense of the responders was...wait for it...al Jezeera. No kidding. Stewart interviewed some first responders on his show tonight. It was powerful, maddening stuff. These GOP Senators truly have no soul, and if there was a hell, they should all rot in it.
Originally Posted By ecdc Seriously. I'm so disgusted with my country right now. There's been a lot to be disgusted with over the past two years: greed, racism, incompetence, and so much more. But this...this has to be one of the ultimate low points in our country's history. I say that without hyperbole; to listen to Jon Kyl say they can't vote on this because it's Christmas...wow.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I just watched that. You're on east coast time, ecdc? Stewart also made Huckabee squirm trying (and failing) to defend Fox.
Originally Posted By ecdc I really need to stop typing before I say something that has the secret service knocking on my door. How has it come to this?
Originally Posted By fkurucz "He noted that none of the major news stations have covered it, and Fox News, usually so easily outraged over any 9/11 injustice (including the mosque that isn't a mosque) has been silent." Isn't a corporate owned main stream media wonderful?
Originally Posted By fkurucz " I say that without hyperbole; to listen to Jon Kyl say they can't vote on this because it's Christmas...wow." I think Mr. Kyl needs to check his liturgical calendar. Christmas isn't until December 25. We are currently in Advent, not "Christmas time". (I say this because I'm guessing that Mr. Kyl is a devout "Christian")
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Isn't a corporate owned main stream media wonderful?<< I was amazed the other night when CBS News didn't say a single syllable about Senator Sanders' filibuster. <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132112128/sen-bernie-sanders-eight-hour-soliloquy" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/...oliloquy</a> Things must be a-changin' in that industry. Getting harder and harder to defend them.
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Originally Posted By hopemax So this may not be dead yet. Yesterday, after the DADT vote, Sen Kirsten Gillibrand said she had found the votes to get cloture. Reid said he will try to get another vote in. But it seems like it is dependent on getting START passed. Between Stewart's show and the fact that so called "moderate" Sen Collins' office called the cops when they new a group of supporters was coming, that there has been a lot of bad press about this; that the GOP might be re-thinking.
Originally Posted By FaMulan They don't have time? Au Contraire! They have until the end of the session in January to get it done. Do not send those losers in Congress home until they take care of the people who got ill from responding to the worst attack on US soil in living memory!!
Originally Posted By FaMulan I just sent little emails to my Congrescritters. Granted they're all Democrats, but they still need to know that they shouldn't adjourn until this is passed.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Agreed. I was already incensed about the fact that they've repeatedly quashed this bill, and now THEY DON'T HAVE TIME FOR IT?!?!? F THEM!!!! These people are heros who took action when most of this country was paralyzed with fear*** Agreed. And what sickened me even more than that was the GOPer (or was there more than one) who said it was sacrilegious to work near Christmastime. So the sensibilities of some whiny Christians is MORE important than helping these heros!? Who's being sacrilegious here? Him, I'd say. What would Jesus say? Probably something like "You mean you used my birthday as an excuse to NOT help your fellow man? Do you even know who I am AT ALL?"
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Even Shepard Smith is ticked off. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/18/shepard-smith-911-first-responders-bill_n_798625.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...625.html</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux GOP Senator Jon Kyl (AZ) was on one of the Sunday talk shows. He's the guy who said it was an insult to christians for the senate to be in session on 12/17. He's also one of the troglodytes that voted against the 9/11 responders bill. He mealy-mouthed his way through a lame excuse about "fraud, waste and abuse", and then dismissively stated that "most of these people weren't there on 9/11, but were people who were clearing the site in the following weeks and months. As if! Not surprisingly, he's also opposed to repealing DADT, opposed to the Dream Act, and even opposed to extending unemployment benefits. It's amazing to me that someone can come on tv and espouse the positions and rhetoric that republicans believe, and not show an ounce of shame. I don't know how they do it.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I'm sorry for my ignorance on this topic but is Dec. 17th some sort of holy day?
