The LuLac Edition #1409, Dec. 19th, 2010
PHOTO INDEX: REAR VIEW OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
NO AGAIN
The party of no, the national Republicans are it again. This time screwing over people with a disadvantage. The worst part about this latest caper is they are blocking the future progress of this country.
Senate Republicans this weekend derailed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
Now these hopefuls wanted to stay in the country on radar, not under it. They wanted the opportunity to go to college or serve in the military. With two wars going on, why would a country say to able bodied youth, we don’;t need you! The GOP right is so fond of spouting the Constitution and The Founding Fathers let me throw this one out. What if, during the American Revolution we checked the papers of the “foreigners” who helped us fight the British?
This act would have provided a path to earned citizenship. A path to the American Dream which the GOP is so fond of saying Is available but not taken by Americans.
This act would have given individuals the opportunity to pull them selves up by their bootstraps but the GOP cut the straps.
WE are sending two messages here,
1. We don’t want you.
2. Going through the system will only get you screwed over and shot down.
3. We won't give you a second chance because we aren't even willing to give you a first chance!
Sponsors of the Dream Act fell five votes short of the 60 they needed to break through largely GOP opposition and win its enactment before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats’ majority in the Senate next month.
President Barack Obama called the vote “incredibly disappointing.”
It was more than disappointing, it was shortsighted, cruel and easy to predict. These were people “different” from the White Christian GOP who claim to have the best interests of this country at heart.
Dozens of immigrants wearing graduation mortarboards they’ll never get to wear watched from the Senate’s visitors gallery as the 55-41 vote was announced. THat Statue of Liberty creed is no longer operable under the GOP:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Unless of course your name is Jose.
MEAN OLD MAN
While my friend Gort 42 is on hiatus, his “Mean Old Man” feature is not. Senator John McCain provides the fun this time. McCain said that the repeal of the Ask Don’t Tell measure will be dangerous to those in combat. From the AP, Speaking on the Senate floor minutes before a crucial test vote, the Arizona Republican acknowledged he couldn’t stop the bill. He blamed elite liberals with no military experience for pushing their social agenda on troops during wartime.
“They will do what is asked of them,” McCain said of service members. “But don’t think there won’t be a great cost.”
I always liked and respected John McCain. I honor his service as a POWBut when you are fighting a war, ((and I’m not a Veteran) the last thing you are worried about as you are in battle would be in the words of Aretha Franklin, “who’s zooming who”. This is not a liberal social agenda, this is common sense. The last time I looked most people involving this effort seem to have, except for Mr. McCain.
posted by David Yonki @ 8:26 AM
10 comments
10 Comments:
Let me get this straight. The DREAM act was a democratic party proposal. Five Democrats voted against it. One Democrat did not vote. Yet, this is the republicans fault it didn't pass. If my math is correct that would have been 61 votes for and it would have passed and would have gone to the president. Yet, it is the republicans, who have claimed to be against the bill even in all of its forms dating back to 2001, are at fault.
Just curious, why when the Dems regained control with a filibuster proof majority in 2006 wasn't this reintroduced? Oh wait, it was and it was opposed by dems.
I understand you don't like republicans, but the fact is that the Dems can not get together to get this passed.
I understand passion often trumps facts, but blame the Dems, they had it this time. If all voted for it it would have passed.
The republicans opposed this. They voted the way those who voted them wanted them to vote.
Perhaps Obama should have gotten President Bill, the real deal, Clinton to take over a press conference and get the 5 no voting dem and the one now voter to have done the right thing and passed this bill.
Obama has lost all crediblity within his own party after the Bill Clinton press conference. On a bill that was this important to dems, not a single one should have voted against it, but Obama has no repsect from within his own party after he displayed his lack of leadership.
Obama needs to start scouting a place for his presidential library now. His one and only term will be up in two years.
Gays in the military? Who cares?
But I do have to wonder, would it be appropriate in boot camp.
Tight quarters, open showers, toilets with out stalls. I don't know.
I am a pretty good looking woman, I have a great body, I am not sure if I would be comfortable in that situation with heterosexual men. I mean once in a while, because I am a little bit of a slut, but living with that constantly. Unwanted stares.
Do homosexuals have a turn off switch that they will not stare at someone that isn't attracted to them?
I find liberals so amusing. When a republican goes against a democratic agenda he/she says NO. When a pussy democrat goes a gainst a republican agengda he/she is standing up for the little guy.
Republicans were not elected to go along with democrats and vice-versa.
Besides, am I incorrect that this is still the Dem Senate from 2008? And I am also correct in stating that if the Dems stuck together, they would have had the votes to take this dream act and make it law?
That's right, you are a liberal, thus you always look to place blame on everyone but those actually at fault.
IN RESPONSE
I understand you don't like republicans, but the fact is that the Dems can not get together to get this passed.
I understand passion often trumps facts, but blame the Dems, they had it this time.
I LIKE REPUBLICANS BUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY WANTS TO ELIMINATE THE MIDDLE CLASS. THEIR ACTIONS SHOW THAT AND THE PATHETIC PART OF THAT IS THOSE WHO ARE VOTING FOR THESE ACTIONS DON'T REALIZE THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST THEIR OWN SELF INTEREST. AS FOR YOUR POINT ABOUT THE DEOCRATS, YOU ARE 100% RIGHT. LOOK AT THIS LIST OF 5, NELSON WHO IS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL WHORE THAT HAS COME DOWN THE PIKE, PRIOR, TESTER AND HAGAN PROVED WHAT NON ENTITIES THEY ARE AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE GUY WHO SCREWED UP HEALTH CARE REFORM OUT OF THE BOX (AND I BLAME OBAMA FOR LETTING HIM) MAX BAUCUS. MY PROBLEM WITH THE GOP IS THAT THEY WALK IN LOCKSTEP AND HAVE CHOSEN PARTY OVER GOOD OF COUNTRY. I'D EXPECT THAT OF A WHORE LIKE BELSON BUT NOT SOME OTHER REPUBLICANS LIKE SNOW.
It is true that under republicans the middle class does shrink. But many move upward under republican control because it is in the best interest for Republicans, much as it is in the best interest for dems to have more people go into lower classes. That is why that under dems the middle class also shrinks, but many go into the lower classes.
Republican self interest is to have as many people prosper as possible, dem self interest is to have as many people fail and need government as possible.
Mission Accomplished, Again!
The middle class is gone.
Thank God for Republicans and wussy Democrats.
You have to understand, Warner - the MSM have their own, specialized math.
And even if more Repubs than Dems had voted in favor of this monstrosity, and it still failed, their math would show that it was the Repubs who denied the poor Mexican children their God-given right to overwhelm this country's resources.
As bad as things are now, imagine how much worse if Al Gore had been elected president. How many industries would have been stifled to stave off global warming?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Al is doing good though, his carbon credit trading business made him more wealthy than he had been in the past.
Talks like a liberal and manipulates a market like a wall streeter.
2:05
As I was composing my thoughts and response I read your posting.
Brilliant in its truth and simplicity.
It takes ****s to leave home, strike out on your own, throw off the yoke of government and make your OWN life. It ain't easy but once you do it there's no wanting to go back.
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