Sleazy Old Senate

[rightwinger]

Congratulations to the US Senate for passing the most essential social legislation in the last 40 years. Something for all Americans to be proud of.

The bill is weak.

Regardless...its a start

In spite of the drama, falsehoods, threats.......Congress managed to do the right thing

 

[Immanuel]

If that's the way it had to be, that's the way it is. The Democrats will get all the glory when America is healthy and prosperous.

They already are as healthy and prosperous as they're gonna be.

That bill isn't going to make things better.

You want people to be healthy then institute a national workout program.

You want people to be prosperous....then get off their fucken backs. Stop dreaming up new ways to tax them...in effect...steal their futures from under their noses.

This bill is a step toward creating a universally healthy workforce which will become the basis of unprecedented prosperity.

Prosperity for the idiots that voted for it.

Poor houses and prison for the rest of us.

Immie

 

[Truthmatters]

COVER STORY: Time to Go! Inside the Worst Congress Ever : Rolling Stone


"I remember one incident very clearly -- I think it was 2001," says Winslow Wheeler, who served for twenty-two years as a Republican staffer in the Senate. "I was working for [New Mexico Republican] Pete Domenici at the time. We were in a Budget Committee hearing and the Democrats were debating what the final result would be. And my boss gets up and he says, 'Why are you saying this? You're not even going to be in the room when the decisions are made.' Just said it right out in the open."


Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
"Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway."

Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.

"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room.

 

[Truthmatters]

The lowlight of his reign took place just before midnight on July 17th, 2003, when Bill Thomas dumped a "substitute" pension bill on Democrats -- one that they had never read -- and informed them they would be voting on it the next morning. Infuriated, Democrats stalled by demanding that the bill be read out line by line while they recessed to a side room to confer. But Thomas wanted to move forward -- so he called the Capitol police to evict the Democrats.

 

[Gunny]

COVER STORY: Time to Go! Inside the Worst Congress Ever : Rolling Stone


"I remember one incident very clearly -- I think it was 2001," says Winslow Wheeler, who served for twenty-two years as a Republican staffer in the Senate. "I was working for [New Mexico Republican] Pete Domenici at the time. We were in a Budget Committee hearing and the Democrats were debating what the final result would be. And my boss gets up and he says, 'Why are you saying this? You're not even going to be in the room when the decisions are made.' Just said it right out in the open."


Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
"Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway."

Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.

"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room.

The lowlight of his reign took place just before midnight on July 17th, 2003, when Bill Thomas dumped a "substitute" pension bill on Democrats -- one that they had never read -- and informed them they would be voting on it the next morning. Infuriated, Democrats stalled by demanding that the bill be read out line by line while they recessed to a side room to confer. But Thomas wanted to move forward -- so he called the Capitol police to evict the Democrats.

Back for more abuse, huh?

 

[Xenophon]

Of course they passed it, after they gave each senator that voted for it some kind of perk.

This bill reeks of corruption.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Notice how some still want to blame the Republicans for this piece of trash. Our only hope is that we get enough people into congress to overturn this junk before it takes effect. Does anyone have any clue what was even in this thing that might actually help the country? And God only knows what the House will do to it yet.

Washington must be replaced with fiscal conservatives, soon.

 

[WillowTree]

Congratulations to the US Senate for passing the most essential social legislation in the last 40 years. Something for all Americans to be proud of.

The bill is weak.

Regardless...its a start

In spite of the drama, falsehoods, threats.......Congress managed to do the right thing

They did? So you think 49 states paying bills for Nebraska is good? You think all the seniors losing their medicare advantage is good? All except Fla. that is? Well, I guess we know what a scoundrel sleazebag you are! Wow.

 

[Neotrotsky]

The bill is weak.

Regardless...its a start

In spite of the drama, falsehoods, threats.......Congress managed to do the right thing

They did? So you think 49 states paying bills for Nebraska is good? You think all the seniors losing their medicare advantage is good? All except Fla. that is? Well, I guess we know what a scoundrel sleazebag you are! Wow.

Good point

Note as well a plan that will, by their definition, allow 420,482 people to die is good.


Hey perhaps this whole thing was never about getting people health care but just getting the gov't's foot in the door?

 

[Contumacious]

If that's the way it had to be, that's the way it is. The Democrats will get all the glory when America is healthy and prosperous.

They already are as healthy and prosperous as they're gonna be.

That bill isn't going to make things better.

You want people to be healthy then institute a national workout program.

You want people to be prosperous....then get off their fucken backs. Stop dreaming up new ways to tax them...in effect...steal their futures from under their noses.

This bill is a step toward creating a universally healthy workforce which will become the basis of unprecedented prosperity.

This bill is a step toward creating a massive socialized health entity , a universally sick workforce which will become the basis for early deaths.

.

 

[mudwhistle]

They already are as healthy and prosperous as they're gonna be.

That bill isn't going to make things better.

You want people to be healthy then institute a national workout program.

You want people to be prosperous....then get off their fucken backs. Stop dreaming up new ways to tax them...in effect...steal their futures from under their noses.

This bill is a step toward creating a universally healthy workforce which will become the basis of unprecedented prosperity.

This bill is a step toward creating a massive socialized health entity , a universally sick workforce which will become the basis for early deaths.

.

Perhaps this is their solution to the Social Security and Medicare reform problem Bush tried to solve.

Kill off enough old fuckers and that leaves more money for the rest of us when we get old enough to collect the benefits.

 

[Contumacious]

This bill is a step toward creating a universally healthy workforce which will become the basis of unprecedented prosperity.

This bill is a step toward creating a massive socialized health entity , a universally sick workforce which will become the basis for early deaths.

.

Perhaps this is their solution to the Social Security and Medicare reform problem Bush tried to solve.

Kill off enough old fuckers and that leaves more money for the rest of us when we get old enough to collect the benefits.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy.

I'm an old fucker.

.

 

[Immanuel]

This bill is a step toward creating a universally healthy workforce which will become the basis of unprecedented prosperity.

This bill is a step toward creating a massive socialized health entity , a universally sick workforce which will become the basis for early deaths.

.

Perhaps this is their solution to the Social Security and Medicare reform problem Bush tried to solve.

Kill off enough old fuckers and that leaves more money for the rest of us when we get old enough to collect the benefits.

Wrong! Do you think they are going to stop killing off the old when we reach retirement age? The plan is to continue to kill us off so that they can continue to stock all those taxes into the general fund and produce pork. Only a select few (politicians all of them) will be exempted from the purge.

Immie

 

[Wry Catcher]

Gee, three pages of right wing trolls whining - what a surprise.
May 'santa' leave each of you a small lump of 'clean' coal.

 

[Immanuel]

Gee, three pages of right wing trolls whining - what a surprise.
May 'santa' leave each of you a small lump of 'clean' coal.

And you a pair of smelly gym socks, Wry.

Immie

PS Merry Christmas

 

[Neotrotsky]

Gee, three pages of right wing trolls whining - what a surprise.
May 'santa' leave each of you a small lump of 'clean' coal.

Thank God, It is well balanced with leftwing fisters

I'm sure some kind of santa will give them good


Merry Xmas

 

[Wry Catcher]

Gee, three pages of right wing trolls whining - what a surprise.
May 'santa' leave each of you a small lump of 'clean' coal.

And you a pair of smelly gym socks, Wry.

Immie

PS Merry Christmas

Thank you, having raised two boys to manhood, I've had my share of smelly gym socks.
Merry Christmas Immie.

 

[mudwhistle]

This bill is a step toward creating a massive socialized health entity , a universally sick workforce which will become the basis for early deaths.

.

Perhaps this is their solution to the Social Security and Medicare reform problem Bush tried to solve.

Kill off enough old fuckers and that leaves more money for the rest of us when we get old enough to collect the benefits.

Wrong! Do you think they are going to stop killing off the old when we reach retirement age? The plan is to continue to kill us off so that they can continue to stock all those taxes into the general fund and produce pork. Only a select few (politicians all of them) will be exempted from the purge.

Immie

Let's see...what are the standard complaints about his bill.

1. If it's so fucken good why the fuck did they insert language excluding themselves?

2. If thousands of people are dying from lack of health care why don't the benefits start paying till after 2014?

3. If this bill is deficit neutral why did they immediately vote to raise the debt ceiling minutes after they passed it?

4. Why do they feel that bribing Senators with exclusionary benefits for their state a great deal for the Senator in question's state? Doesn't this mean the bill is a hardship, not a benefit for the rest of us?

5. Just how fucken stupid do they think we are? Pretty stupid I guess. There's still a strong 39% of us that support this total piece of shit.

 

[Mike458877]

This Obama White House and the Liberals on the HILL are putting on the ugliest display ever of American Politics.

Each and every one of them are a complete embarrassment to this nation!

In due time, the American people will have their say and their revenge!

Mike

 

[Immanuel]

This Obama White House and the Liberals on the HILL are putting on the ugliest display ever of American Politics.

Each and every one of them are a complete embarrassment to this nation!

In due time, the American people will have their say and their revenge!

Mike

By then it will be too late.

Immie