Posted on 02/22/2008 2:20:34 PM PST by Delacon
Why are Republicans in Congress trying to help Barack Obama?
Republicans allowed a bill that carries his name, among nine others, to pass the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote last week – without any hearings. That means there was no roll-call vote so no member can be held accountable. The same bill passed the House by voice vote last year.
The Obama bill passed out of committee with the cooperation of the co-sponsor, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. A Rhodes scholar like former President Bill Clinton, Lugar has never seen a United Nations enhancement he didn't like.
Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts, which is at least $30 billion over and above the exorbitant and wasted sums we already give away overseas.
The bipartisan bill would require the president "to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day."
The bill's other co-sponsors include Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Charles Hagel, R-Neb., and Robert Mendez, D-N.J.
We should be on guard any time politicians use the word "comprehensive," an umbrella word that always shades a lot of mischief. The notion that U.S. taxpayers should or could cut in half the number of people worldwide who live in poverty by 2015 is ridiculous.
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What spineless republican will go on record for voting against poor people as assuredly as the MSM will portray it?
Lugar calls himself Republican, runs as a Republican and is elected by Republicans--yet he CO-SPONSORED this bill. Do you really think he co-sponsored it to get it out of committee solely in order to defeat it? THAT really would be retarded.
It would also be complicity in the evil intent to destroy our country.
You’re right. Let’s defeat every damn Republican.
That will fix things.
OTOH the Republicans who are working to destroy, not just our party, but our country need to be removed--kind of like a cancer tumor.
From a nurse I know of a woman who came in to see the doctor because she just felt awful. When the doctor began the exam, he noticed a large lesion on her breast and asked her how long she'd had it. She looked right at it and said, "Had what?" Three weeks later she was dead.
Mr. Gone, I don't want to be in denial like that woman. I don't want my party destroyed and I don't want my country destroyed. You may prefer to ignore cancer tumors. Your choice.
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