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"Screw those Vets" at Election time?
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[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Eager to screw Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday
blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion to help veterans find work in their communities.
The GOP chant broke out on the senate floor:
"Screw those Vets, screw those Vets!"
The measure, which could have created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by
the We-Hate-The-Troops Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for. Senator Patty Murray, the
bill’s main sponsor, said the bill would have covered the costs in part with fees on Medicare providers and
suppliers who are delinquent on their tax bills. The vote was 58-40, two votes short.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans killed a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,”
Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able,
just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch the Bitch and Senate Republicans “are willing to do
absolutely anything to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans
they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
The Republican Party is TRYING to give Obama the White House AND both Houses.
Will Obama know how to accept their gracious gift?
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[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Eager to screw Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday
blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion to help veterans find work in their communities.
The GOP chant broke out on the senate floor:
"Screw those Vets, screw those Vets!"
The measure, which could have created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by
the We-Hate-The-Troops Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for. Senator Patty Murray, the
bill’s main sponsor, said the bill would have covered the costs in part with fees on Medicare providers and
suppliers who are delinquent on their tax bills. The vote was 58-40, two votes short.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans killed a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,”
Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able,
just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch the Bitch and Senate Republicans “are willing to do
absolutely anything to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans
they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
The Republican Party is TRYING to give Obama the White House AND both Houses.
Will Obama know how to accept their gracious gift?
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